Local TLD
November 16th, 2008 | by whazup |
In addition to the international TLD, we also recognize that local TLD include a particular country (known as the Country Code Top Level Domain, ccTLD). For example, for United Kingdom is the ccTLD .uk, Malaysia is .my, And India is .in. A ccTLD defined by ICANN, but the management submitted to the appointed institutions in the country concerned. For example, Indonesia has its own ccTLD .id and management, submitted to the IDNIC (www.idnic.net.id)
As the institutions that manage the authority usage ccTLD Indonesia, IDNIC set several subdomains for the ccTLD. Allotment accordance with each other. Subdomain is available .co.id (corporate, company), .net.id (network, network or ISP), .or.id (organization, organization, etc.), .go.id (government, institutions of governance), .ac.id (Academy, educational institutions), and .mil.id (Military, military institutions). Later also added a subdomain .sch.id (school, school) .web.id (personal) and .war.net.id (for Cyber Cafe).
Contrasting with the ownership of the global TLD is relatively free, then IDNIC set rules for the strict use of the domain-based Indonesia. Its purpose other than to prevent abuse, but also that each domain is only used by those genuinely entitled to.
Several countries including lucky because they have a ccTLD easily associated with specific terms or terminology. Take the example of Tuvalu, a tiny country in the Pacific ocean. TLD .tv state this bestseller among the managers of television stations. Not surprisingly, even Indonesian TV station, RCTI felt it necessary to leave the domain rcti.co.id to move to the domain rcti.tv. Similar fate suffered by Micronesia France (French Micronesia), where the domain .fm state is famous among the managers of radio stations. Of course, countries concerned can grap sizable foreign exchange, which results from selling this domain.
How to Indonesia? Although the ccTLD .id property Indonesia can be easily associated with the “identification” or “identity” – which will certainly attract the attention that they want a unique domain, but at least until now, IDNIC still not intend to sell the domain to the parties based Indonesian – parties, both Companies, organizations or individuals who have no connection with Indonesia.
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