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.Post Is In The Root

August 8, 2012 by Michele Neylon

At the end of 2006 there were a total of 13 ro...
At the end of 2006 there were a total of 13 root nameservers, including Anycast servers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yesterday a “new” domain extension was added to the root nameservers.

It’s not really “new”, as it was approved ages ago, but hadn’t been delegated.

The .post TLD will be run for post offices and only post offices, so don’t expect to see too many domain names using it.. It’ll be interesting to see which ones actually do..

The “news” broke last night via Jeff Moss’ twitter account

Congratulations to .post as the latest new TLD to enter the root and for them beginning #dnssec signed from the beginning! #ICANN

— The Dark Tangent (@thedarktangent) August 7, 2012

Kevin, over on DomainIncite, has a few more details.

Filed Under: icann, registries Tagged With: Domain name, Generic top-level domain, icann, Root name server, Top-level domain

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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