A domain address is the web site address http://www.yourwebpage.com . Generally, domain addresses are used with the scope not only to help users remember the address of a website, but also to hint users what a website is about. Every website has an IP Address, for example 230.150.12.86. An Internet webpage is identified by a domain name, which consists of two or more parts, separated by dots, as for example www.example.com
There can arouse a question - what does .com mean. .com
is used on the Internet's Domain Name System. It is a generic top-level
domain. .com stands for commercial.
Other generic top-level domains
are:
.biz - intended for domains used by businesses
.edu
- intended for educational institutions worldwide
.gov – intended
for government entities in the US.
.info - intended for informative
websites. Its usage is not restricted.
.int intended to be used
by the Internet's Domain Name System.
.mil – intended for the
US Department of Defense and its organizations.
.name - intended
to be used by individuals' real names, pseudonyms, nicknames, screen names.
.net (network) – is intended to be used on the Internet's Domain
Name System.
.org (organization) is intended to be used on the
Internet's Domain Name System.
