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Canon Inc. announced today that it will begin the acquisition process for the top-level domain name “.canon,” based on the new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registration system.
The non-profit organization ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), which maintains and regulates the Internet’s addressing system, has rigorously evaluated the current gTLD string of characters’ societal value, utilization purpose, and use in an organization’s operations. At its International Public Meeting held in June 2008, however, ICANN approved the relaxation and liberalization of the …

International domain names or addresses that can be written in non-English characters are expected to be approved this week.
This will spark one of the biggest changes to the internet in its four-decade history.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN – the non-profit group that oversees domain names – is holding a meeting this week in Seoul.
The ICANN board will decide if will allow entire internet addresses to be in scripts that are not based on Latin letters.

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“A” record(address record) – returns a 32-bit IPv4 address, most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host.
“MX” record(mail exchange record) – maps a domain name to a list of mail exchange servers for that domain.
“CNAME” record(canonical name record) – is an alias of one name to another, the DNS lookup will continue by retrying the lookup with the new name. This is useful when running multiple services (like an FTP and a webserver) from a single IP address. Each service can then have its own …