feb 25

• http://www.icann.org/ - internet corporation for assigned names and numbers
• http://www.iana.org/ - internet assigned numbers authority
  • older, now under icann, still does ip addresses
  • http://www.postel.org/postel.html : Jon Postel
  • http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xml
  • http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/011910-ipv4-addresses-dwindle.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
• http://Bücher.ch turns into http://xn--bcher-kva.ch.
  • aside on utf-8 : http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html

• registration (top level servers know where to look for your domain)
  • name hosting (a specific name server tells about your ip, email, etc)
  • web hosting (a web server is running at that ip address)

• wikipedia:root nameserver
  • http://www.root-servers.org/
• http://igoro.com/archive/what-really-happens-when-you-navigate-to-a-url/

• from command line
• online : http://network-tools.com/
  • try various information requests for jimmahoney.net