Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
While the underlying layers use numbers, our experience of the internet is shaped by domain names. Some (like Google) have even become verbs. As you might expect, a robust market has emerged involving buying and selling domain names. In some cases, people even take preemptive measures to acquire domain names that they think might someday be used to make fun of them.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
While the underlying layers use numbers, our experience of the internet is shaped by domain names. Some (like Google) have even become verbs. As you might expect, a robust market has emerged involving buying and selling domain names. In some cases, people even take preemptive measures to acquire domain names that they think might someday be used to make fun of them.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
