.geo
Sign in to save.geo was a generic top-level domain proposed by SRI International to be used to associate Internet resources with geographical locations, via a system of "georegistrars" and "georegistries" with hierarchical addresses representing locations in a grid encircling the Earth. These addresses are not intended to be typed in directly by end-users (and hence are "messy" strings like acme.2e5n.10e30n.geo) but rather, would be used "behind the scenes" by software looking things up by location (possibly driven by GPS positioning in mobile devices).
Key facts
- Top level domain.name
- .geo
- Top level domain.background
- D2B48C
- Top level domain.image
- .geo
- Top level domain.introduced
- Not officially introduced; proposed in 2000
- Top level domain.type
- Proposed top-level domain
- Top level domain.status
- Unofficial proposal
- Top level domain.registry
- None yet
- Top level domain.sponsor
- SRI International
- Top level domain.intendeduse
- To associate Internet resources with geographical locations
- Top level domain.actualuse
- Not available for use
- Top level domain.restrictions
- To be used only to publish geographical data in specified system
- Top level domain.structure
- Would have structure based on geographical coordinates to give addresses to "georegistries", like acme.2e5n.10e30n.geo
- Top level domain.document
- Proposal to ICANN
- Top level domain.disputepolicy
- Normal sorts of "cybersquatting" are not possible given structure
- Top level domain.website
- DotGeo
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
.geo was a generic top-level domain proposed by SRI International to be used to associate Internet resources with geographical locations, via a system of "georegistrars" and "georegistries" with hierarchical addresses representing locations in a grid encircling the Earth. These addresses are not intended to be typed in directly by end-users (and hence are "messy" strings like acme.2e5n.10e30n.geo) but rather, would be used "behind the scenes" by software looking things up by location (possibly driven by GPS positioning in mobile devices).
A number of schemes have been proposed or implemented in an attempt to classify Internet sites geographically; many of them do not require anything special in DNS (e.g., the GeoURL initiative). The .geo proposal can, hence, be criticized as making unnecessary use of a top-level domain where it might have been implemented using subdomains elsewhere (perhaps within .arpa, the domain allocated for infrastructure lookups), or with non-DNS methods such as "meta" tags in Web sites.