e-Business & e-Commerce

Website Publishing & Role Of ICANN

BY JYOTINDRA ZAVERI Knowledge worker

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Website: Frequently Asked Questions Who is webmaster and what is the role of webmaster? How do you ensure a unique website name? What are the steps for making a website? Whom to pay? Is there any organization who is responsible for reserving a domain name? Browser?
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U. R. L.
URL = UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR FIRST PART = PROTOCOL
E.G. FTP:// OR HTTP:// ftp:// = FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL http:// = HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL https:// = HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL SECURED

SECOND PART IS THE ADDRESS

ftp://www.XYZ.com/downlo adstuff.exe http://www.abc.com/index. html

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INTERNET PROTOCOL
IP: Internet software that divides data into packets for transmission over the Internet. Computers must run IP to communicate across the Internet
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IP address
Internet Protocol address The standard way of identifying a computer that is connected to the Internet
Much the way a telephone number identifies a telephone on a telephone network

An IP address is four numbers separated by periods:

E.g. 192.200.44.69.

Your hosting company or web server administrator or Internet Service Provider (ISP) will assign your computer an IP address
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TLD
Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which Top Level Domain (TLD) it belongs to gov - Government agencies .edu - Educational institutions org - Organizations (nonprofit) mil - Military com - commercial business The TLD may be followed by the country name (except US) in - India ca - Canada
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ICANN
ICANN was created by the late Jon Postel in 1998 in response to US Department of Commerce. This called for the formation of a private sector not-forprofit organization to administer policy for the Internet name and address system. Thus ICANN was formed ICANN is short form of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, an organization that has assumed the responsibility for IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract

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Registering a Domain Name

DOMAIN NAME is a name that identifies THE I. P. ADDRESS The only way to register and start using a domain name is to use the services of a domain name registrar. The domain name industry is regulated and overseen by ICANN, the organization that is responsible for certifying companies as domain name registrars There are dozens of accredited registrars. Only a domain name registrar is permitted to access and modify the master database of domain names

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ACCREDITED REGISTRARS
If you come across a registrar that is not on the list, it is most likely that the organization is acting as a reseller for one of the accredited registrars

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Registering a Domain Name

ICANN-accredited registrars have the authority to assign domain names for the TLDs of .com, .biz. .info, .name, .net, and .org. The registrar you choose will determine the cost for registering a domain name, but in general expect to pay a yearly fee.

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How to know who is the owner of a domain name?

Find out from the website

http://www.who.is

To find domain name owner For example, if you enter a domain name such as microsoft.com, whois will return the name and address of the domain's owner (in this case, Microsoft Corporation).
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Who is microsoft.com ? REGISTRY WHOIS FOR MICROSOFT.COM

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Web browser
Software that interprets the markup of files in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), formats them into Web pages, and displays them to the user. E.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer Or Mozilla Firefox
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ISOC
The Internet Society is an independent international non-profit organisation founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education, and policy around the world

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www.isoc.org

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Webmaster
Person responsible for the website.
It is recommended that a backup person is also appointed as webmaster (who also knows the password to edit the website).

He / she will have the secret password to change the contents. Main task is to publish (upload) the website and to manage the contents of the website.
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Webmaster
He / She may be expert in web designing or may outsource the technical part of writing the html language (Hyper Text Markup Language) codes, etc. Decide about the protocols. In other words, webmaster need not be IT professional. It is more like a PRO (Public Relation Officer) job. Or marketing function. CIO (Chief Information Officer) coordinates with webmaster, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) database, and other key departments, such as marketing.
Webmaster will update the content of the website. In SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) , CIO and Webmaster may be the same person.

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Steps for making a website

1. Webmaster should follow the steps given below to create a website: 2. Think of a good domain name 3. Find out if is available, else think of another name. 4. Register the Domain name (pay to ICANN for nn years via reseller). 5. Contact a website hosting company book xx GB space (for nn years) (pay to use their hard disk space) 6. Receive IP address (domain name) and a secret Password from the hosting company.

The hosting company will park (or connect) the IP address with the domain name.

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Steps for making a website

6. Design home page and other child pages
E.g. using MS FrontPage Or Java / HTML language

7. Upload (or publish) the homepage and other child pages to the internet server of the hosting company For this webmaster will require the password provided by the hosting company. 8. Inform others to view your website 9. Regularly update your website

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CHANGE WITH TECHNOLOGY

IF YOU ARE NOT RIDING THE WAVE OF CHANGE .. YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF BENEATH IT
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THANK YOU
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