Title: The Uniform Naming of Corporate
Top-Level Domains
Status: Standards - Informational
Version: 1.0
Published: 1 October 2004
The Uniform
Naming of Corporate Top-Level Domains
INTRODUCTION
This document provides TLD operators
with guidelines to the naming of corporate
resources. These recommendations are
informational and do not reflect any
technical specifications or limitations
on the operation or administration
of corporate TLDs.
The primary goal of this information
document is to assist corporate TLD
operators in setting up a consistent
name space that will be used for referring
to resources. Uniform naming is used
to create administrative boundaries
in a domain system to distribute responsibility
for resource allocation. These allocations
can identify and provide users access
to resources named by department or
function within an organization.
These standards are not to be considered
technical specifications by the Internet
community. The standards defined by
this document do not mandate a particular
tree structure on the Corporate TLD.
Nor are these standards to be considered
rules for selecting domain labels
in corporate TLDs.
THIS DOCUMENT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
This document is an open informational
standard of The Uniform Corporate
Domain Authority (UCDA). The Internet
community may make contributions at
any time to this document.
RECOMMENDATION
These guidelines provide recommendations
on the labeling and delegation of
second level domains within a corporate
TLDs. User can find and connect to
corporate resources using predictable,
descriptive, and easy to remember
domain names. UCDA uniform naming
eliminates the use of search engines
or third party directories in finding
corporate resources.
A corporate domain name is composed
of two labels. The first label is
the second level domain or SLD, followed
by a period “.”, and the
next label is the TLD. A corporate
domain name therefore is expressed
in the form of <SLD>.<TLD>
The uniform naming information standards
track recommends that operators of
corporate TLDs reserve a number of
SLD labels that identify specific
departments, tasks or functions within
an organization. |
