Without this equipment and capability, the domain name will not be registered. For example, names ending in .COM are normally assigned to commercial, .NET normally for general web sites, names ending in .ORG are assigned to non-profit organizations. A domain name can not begin or end with a dash. You should pick a domain name you are comfortable with as your online identity. Many large companies, particularly in the communications and entertainment industries hold registrations for many domain names covering various trademarks, trade names, or simply variants on their company names.
Computers identify each other with numbers rather than words.
DNS has servers located all over the Internet which perform the translation between names and numbers for other computers. Two character extensions are called country codes and are used for country code designation. There are some 240 or so country codes for nations and territories around the world. No, I.C.A.N.N. opened the market to offer the same registrar services NSI provides. This marks a new era of competition in domain name registration services as you now have a choice of registrars to use whether you are an end user or an Internet company such as a web host provider who does this for your clients.