%0 Conference Paper %1 lopez2009towards %A Lopez, Pedro Garcia %A Espelt, Marc %B HT '09: Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia %C New York, NY, USA %D 2009 %I ACM %K de157 demo domains ht2009 level namespaces naming top web %T to:// Towards an open namespace for Web resources %X In this paper we present an open namespace for web resources under the URI scheme to://. It is a web indirection service that converts URLs-to-URLs (i.e. to:// -> http://) and introduces the novel concept of Web Top Level Domains (wTLDs). Every wTLD like to://hypertext refers to an URL like http://www.ht2009.org and it is possible to resolve subdomains under these wTLDs (to://2008.hypertext, to://proceedings.2008.hypertext). The overall architecture is based on browser plugins and web server software using standard protocols like HTTP and XML to resolve domains under the to:// URI scheme. Furthermore, the infrastructure also provides an open search engine over domain names using meta-information like tags or geo-location. We present a running prototype of this system called Socialdns.net hosting more than 2,000 domains.

@inproceedings{lopez2009towards, abstract = {In this paper we present an open namespace for web resources under the URI scheme to://. It is a web indirection service that converts URLs-to-URLs (i.e. to:// -> http://) and introduces the novel concept of Web Top Level Domains (wTLDs). Every wTLD like to://hypertext refers to an URL like http://www.ht2009.org and it is possible to resolve subdomains under these wTLDs (to://2008.hypertext, to://proceedings.2008.hypertext). The overall architecture is based on browser plugins and web server software using standard protocols like HTTP and XML to resolve domains under the to:// URI scheme. Furthermore, the infrastructure also provides an open search engine over domain names using meta-information like tags or geo-location. We present a running prototype of this system called Socialdns.net hosting more than 2,000 domains. }, added-at = {2009-06-16T15:00:02.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Lopez, Pedro Garcia and Espelt, Marc}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ab0020fe3a6db6bd70e21618b7b26a9c/ht09}, booktitle = {HT '09: Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia}, interhash = {3dece683cd20cbc47409ec1c8b2ec31a}, intrahash = {ab0020fe3a6db6bd70e21618b7b26a9c}, keywords = {de157 demo domains ht2009 level namespaces naming top web}, month = {July}, paperid = {de157}, publisher = {ACM}, session = {Demo}, timestamp = {2009-06-16T15:00:03.000+0200}, title = {to:// Towards an open namespace for Web resources}, year = 2009 }