de域名：成功的故事
de域名：成功的故事
【原文】Domains are basically no more than mnemonic aids for Internet users. Computers communicate amongst themselves using their so-called IP numbers (such as 110.246.96.50), which identify each one of them uniquely. Human beings, however, generally find it easier to remember meaningful combinations of characters rather than strings of digits. The Domain Name System (DNS) has created a means for linking the world of humans to the world of machines, since the DNS makes it possible to assign a domain uniquely to an IP address.
【译文】域名基本上只是互联网用户记忆的工具。计算机之间的通讯使用所谓的IP号码（比如110.24696.50），用IP号码可以标识他们的唯一性。然而人们通常觉得记忆有意义的字母组合比数字串更容易。域名系统DNS创造了联接人类世界和机器世界的途径，因为DNS使得将一个域名分配给唯一一个IP地址成为可能。
【原文】The structure of the DNS is hierarchical. Its pinnacle is formed by the Top Level Domains. Immediately underneath them, it is possible to register second-level-domains, which are often known simply as "domains" (for example: denic.de). Each hierarchical level is separated from the others by a dot.
【译文】DNS的结构是分级的。它的顶级是由顶级域形成。在顶级域的下边，立即可以注册二级域，这就是我们通常知道的“域名”（比如denic.de）。每一级用小数点dot与其他级隔开。
【原文】The Top Level Domain .de has been in use as an address extension in the Internet for approximately twenty years. The necessary record for .de was set up in IANA's database on November 5, 1986. Starting in March 1988, members of the Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe at the University of Dortmund began offering a volunteer nameserver service for .de using the name DENIC (= German Network Information Center). At that time, the number of .de domains registered totalled six, and they were (in alphabetical order): dbp.de, rmi.de, telenet.de, uka.de, uni-dortmund.de and uni-paderborn.de.
【译文】顶级域名.de作为一个地址扩展名在互联网上使用已经将近20年了。1986年11月5日.de的必要记录在IANA建立。从1988年3月开始，多特蒙德大学Informatikrechner-Betriebsgruppe的会员们开始用DENIC的名字提供一个志愿的名字服务器为.de服务。在那个时候，.de域名的注册量总共是6个，按照字母表顺序依次是： dbp.de, rmi.de, telenet.de, uka.de, uni-dortmund.de 和 uni-paderborn.de.
【原文】The rate of growth in the number of domains has been far from steady in time since then. For several years to begin with, when the Internet still remained predominantly a university reserve, the rate of growth in the number of registered domains was only slow. The number of .de domains had thus only grown to a thousand or so when, in 1994, domain administration was transferred to the University of Karlsruhe as a project with outside funding.
【译文】域名个数的增长率在那时远远不稳定。在开始的几年中，那时候互联网还仍然控制在大学里，已注册域名数量的增长率是很低的。到1994年de域名只增长到一千，域名管理作为一个吸入资金的项目转交到卡尔斯鲁厄大学。
【原文】It was following the invention of the World Wide Web, which can be considered as a sort of graphic user interface for the Internet, that use of the Internet began to expand like wildfire beyond the limited circle of research institutions and computer companies. This was paralleled with a growing interest in domains. At the beginning of 1997, just after DENIC eG had been created as a registered cooperative by the German Internet service providers, the number of addresses registered totalled around 50 000. It took just over two years (to April 1999) for this figure to climb to half a million. In the two years after that, the number of domains doubled every six months, and the five-million mark was reached in November 2001. In recent years, the growth rate has more or less stabilized at around a million new domains per year, which is the rough equivalent of two new .de domains coming into being every minute. With ten million domains, .de has further consolidated the position it has held for many years as the world's largest country code and the second largest Top Level Domain globally, with only .com ahead of it.
【译文】域名是发明了万维网之后，从科研部门的计算机专业用户向公众推广互联网对话界面的导航。互联网的扩张与人们在域名方面兴趣的增长相一致。 1997年初，DENIC由德国互联网服务提供商成为注册公司之后，地址注册量达到了5万左右。花了将近2年的时间，到1999年4月这个数字攀升到了50万。2年之后，域名的数量每6个月增长一倍，到2001年11月达到了500万的注册量。最近几年，域名的增长率稳定在每年新增加百万注册量，差不多相当于每分钟有2个.de域名诞生。达到1000万个域名，.de域名已经进一步牢固其是世界上cctld注册量第一以及注册量仅次于com顶级域名是世界上第二大注册量域名的地位。
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Re:de域名：成功的故事
学到新知识了，原来de才是第二大的二级域名，一直以为.net .org都很多的