[Techtalk] Criteria for TLDs

[Daniel Pittman]

Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com> writes:

> Why does Greenland have a TLD, but not Hawaii, for example?

Greenland is a country, Hawaii isn't.  There is, however, a 'hi.us.'
domain namespace allocated to Hawaii.  You can probably guess from the
existence of 'ak.us.' and 'wy.us.' what the intermediate names are.

> What are the rules governing who gets a TLD and who doesn't?

ICANN set the rules.  http://www.icann.org/

Other than the generic TLDs, though, the rule is if you are a country
then you get a 'ccTLD', or "country code top level domain".  If you are
not then...

Well, the rest is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

Regards,
        Daniel