I Am Not a Lawyer. Stop reading right now. Domain names are property. Treat them as such. Make a will, living trust or whatever makes most sense in your jurisdiction. Avoid probate like it would revive you only to kill you again but this time using very angry capybaras gnawing through vital organs.
It does have a TLD – in this case the TLD is ac. This is actually a special case. Usually a TLD does not have an A record associated with it: $ host -t A ac. ac has address 193.223.78.210 $ host -t A com. com has no A record To get this behaviour, you … Read more
Generally, no. It’s important to understand that the domain only references a nameserver; the DNS records aren’t actually stored with the domain registration at all. When you transfer a domain name, most gaining registrars will leave the nameserver associated with the domain unchanged, so your DNS records will keep working as long as your DNS … Read more
If you do file a domain name registration dispute with ICANN, be absolutely certain your claim is ironclad. Also keep in mind that this will (last I looked) cost you around $1500, which is often way more than the person who owns the domain would ask to sell it to you. If you do intend … Read more
You hit probably one of the worst corner case of domain names, one that is often poorly explained everywhere and that causes a lot of problems. The following applies to gTLDs (some ccTLDs may work the same way, some completely differently): they work in an auto-renewal mode. This means that, at the registry level, a … Read more
There are several well-known ways of locating whois servers for TLDs, the IANA database is probably the closest to what the question asks for, however there are other sources that may be more useful in practice. From IANA (access via whois and http) Browse http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db or search the whois database at whois.iana.org for the TLD. … Read more
It was purchased before 1993 by Weinstein & DePaolis, and subsequently sold to Paypal (or the company was bought out). In 1993 IANA reserved all remaining single letter second-level domains, and grandfathered the ones already issued. Other functional, corporate examples domains are t.co (Twitter) and q.com (Qwest). I hate to cite Wikipedia as a source, … Read more