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[Riley Baird <riley AT openmailbox.org>]

> I'm new here. Sorry if I did anything wrong!

No, nothing wrong. It's great to have you participate!

> I have a (perhaps dumb) newbie question. Sorry again, but, what does one 
> need to create and mantain a whole TLD? Does one need any complex hardware, 
> lika an always-on kind of server?

You will definitely need your server to have low downtime - the domains
under your TLD will be inaccessible when your server is off.

Any computer can be made into a server, you just need to make sure that
it can handle the number of requests that it will be receiving.

Also, you will need a static IP address.

> How does the below-second-level domain structure (e.g. .co.uk) work? Is it 
> just a simple subdomain?

Yes, just a simple subdomain.