Host Tables, Top-Level Domain Names, and the Origin of Dot Com

Author

Feinler, Elizabeth

Volume

33

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

3/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

79

Abstract

From as far back as 1971, the Arpanet Network Information Center (NIC) at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International or SRI), located in Menlo Park, California, maintained the official Arpanet Host Table. This work was carried out under contract to DARPA. Later, the same activity was carried out by the NIC for the Defense Communications Agency (DCA) and the Defense Data Network (DDN), of which the Arpanet eventually became one segment. In this Anecdote article, Elizabeth (Jake) Feinler describes the organizations and people involved in the early efforts at naming and addressing, in particular the transition to the domain naming system (DNS) and the origin of the top-level domains (TLDs).

Keywords

Internet; government data processing; Arpanet Host Table; Arpanet Network Information center; DARPA; Defense Communications Agency; Defense Data Network; SRI International; Stanford Research Institute; domain naming system; dot com; top level domain names; ARPANET; Domain Name System; History; US Department of Defense; Arpanet; Arpanet Host Table; DARPA; Defense Communications Agency; Elizabeth Feinler; SRI; domain naming system; dot com; history of computing; top-level domains;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAHC.2011.58

Filename

5986499