История TLD
Хронологическая история доменов верхнего уровня. От первых семи TLD в 1985 году до эры новых gTLD и далее.
The Dawn of DNS
The Domain Name System was born out of the need to replace the unwieldy HOSTS.TXT file that mapped hostnames to IP addresses on the ARPANET. …
DNS replaced a centralized text file with a distributed, scalable naming infrastructure, making global internet …
The Early Web Era
Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web in 1989 transformed the internet from an academic research network into a global information platform. Throughout the …
The web democratized the internet, turning domain names into valuable commercial assets for the first …
Post-Bubble Consolidation
After the dot-com crash of 2000–2001, the domain industry restructured around ICANN's emerging governance framework. New sponsored TLDs like .biz and .info launched to relieve …
ICANN consolidated its authority over DNS policy, establishing the accredited registrar model still in use …
The New gTLD Revolution
ICANN's New gTLD Program, announced in 2008 and launched in 2012, was the most dramatic expansion of the domain namespace in history. Over 1,900 applications …
The new gTLD program shattered the monopoly of the original TLDs and created a genuinely …
The Modern Domain Landscape
Google's launch of .app in 2018 and .dev in 2019 demonstrated that tech giants could operate successful TLDs, while GDPR's 2018 implementation dramatically changed WHOIS …
Privacy regulation reshaped the registration data ecosystem, while DNS security became a mainstream concern. The …
The Next Frontier
ICANN's next round of new gTLD applications opened in 2024, promising another wave of hundreds of new extensions. The AI boom sparked unprecedented demand for …
AI's cultural dominance has made .ai one of the most sought-after ccTLDs ever, illustrating how …