Abstract

In October 2015, CERN’s core website has been moved to a new address, http://home.cern, marking the launch of the brand new top-level domain .cern. In combination with a formal governance and registration policy, the IT infrastructure needed to be extended to accommodate the hosting of Web sites in this new top level domain. We will present the technical implementation in the framework of the CERN Web Services that allows to provide virtual hosting, a reverse proxy solution and that also includes the provisioning of SSL server certificates for secure communications.

Highlights

  • In October 2015, CERN’s core website has been moved to a new address, http://home.cern, marking the launch of the brand new top-level domain (TLD) .cern

  • We will present the technical implementation in the framework of the CERN Web Services that allows to provide virtual hosting, a reverse proxy solution and that includes the provisioning of SSL server certificates for secure communications

  • We will present timeline of the application for the TLD and the technical implementation in the framework of the CERN Web Services that allows to provide virtual hosting, a reverse proxy solution and that includes the provisioning of SSL server certificates for secure communications

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Introduction

In October 2015, CERN’s core website has been moved to a new address, http://home.cern, marking the launch of the brand new top-level domain (TLD) .cern. The top-level domains are maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) [2] a department of ICANN. CERN application for gTLD In 2011, CERN began the preparation for the application process for the gTLD .cern This included the evaluation of the technical feasibilty for implementing the required support within CERN’s IT infrastructre to allow the use of a new, dedicated gTLD for the official Web communication of CERN [5]. 5. Registration Workflow for .cern Figure 3 illustrates the registration process and workflow for requests for new domain names in the gTLD .cern from the initial formal request, over the approval and domain name registration, to the configuration of DNS and Web server infrastructure

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