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Clarify that the top level TLD is '.' #283

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@Suhail Suhail commented May 15, 2018

This greatly confused me for a little while since it wasn't clear how top-level TLDs were really created.

Suhail Doshi and others added 5 commits May 14, 2018 15:55
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note: the older abi had expiryTimes in it which let you call the function and it returned 0 making you think the domain wasn't registered when in reality the interface doesn't implement it.
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ Note the use of `web3.sha3()` instead of `namehash()` when specifying the subdom

The owner of a name can reassign ownership of subdomains at any time, even if they're owned by someone else.

**Note:** When you first create your registry, the top level TLD is '.' (the root register) and the root register creates "subdomains" like 'test' or 'eth'
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I think you mean 'registrar', not 'register' - and there isn't necessarily a root registrar, it can be owned by a simple account. Perhaps:

When you first create your registry, the only domain is '.' (the root domain) and the root domain creates subdomains like the 'test' and 'eth' top-level domains.

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Cool, updated

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Suhail commented May 15, 2018

Updated. Should be good now.

@Arachnid Arachnid merged commit 273797b into ensdomains:master May 17, 2018
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