Well, it's much more comfortable than I imagined...

...What do you do when they recommend 'room temperature' for certain drinks?

Sorry! I am looking for dnsimple.com, do you know where I can find it?

Now, that's a great question!

The coordination of most top-level domains (TLDs) belong to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

The .COM TLD was one of the first created in 1985.

And today, it is the largest TLD on the internet.

Other type of TLDs include:

1. Country code TLDs. Usually, their 2 letter ISO code.

2. Internationalized country code TLDs.

3. Generic TLDs: .NET, .ORG, .EDU, etc...

Usually, TLDs with 3 or more letters.

4. Infrastructure TLDs: .ARPA, mostly used for reverse DNS lookups.

The opposite of what we are doing now.

We are doing this:

Reverse DNS does this:

And today, many new generic TLDs are being created!

Now, back to your question resolver!

I am afraid I don't know the IP address for dnsimple.com

But I have found the name servers!

Great! I'll store that information for later

The .COM found the authoritative name servers for the domain dnsimple.com.

But what do these names mean?

We'll find out very soon...

So the journey continues...

Who are the authoritative name servers?

Find out in the next episode of how DNS works.