Domain name

String that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

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Domain name registrar

The Internet Messenger by Buky Schwartz, located in Holon, Israel

A domain name registrar is a company that manages the reservation of Internet domain names.

URL

Reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.

The format combines the pre-existing system of domain names (created in 1985) with file path syntax, where slashes are used to separate directory and filenames.

Website

Server-side programming language usage in 2016.

A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

Uniform Resource Identifier

Unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies.

For example, the URL refers to a resource identified as , whose representation, in the form of HTML and related code, is obtainable via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http:) from a network host whose domain name is.

Email

Method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

The at sign, a part of every SMTP email address

When a "robot" on Wikipedia makes changes to image files, the uploader receives an email about the changes made.

The interface of an email client, Thunderbird.

2) The MSA determines the destination address provided in the SMTP protocol (not from the message header) — in this case, bob@b.org — which is a fully qualified domain address (FQDA). The part before the @ sign is the local part of the address, often the username of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name. The MSA resolves a domain name to determine the fully qualified domain name of the mail server in the Domain Name System (DNS).

.net

The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

Top-level domain

org[.] is a node in the DNS tree, just like wikipedia.[org.] and en.[wikipedia.org.]. As such, it has its own DNS records

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain.

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

Standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol-related symbols and Internet numbers.

: IPv6 Prefix Assignment mechanism with IANA, RIRs, and ISPs.

In the case of the two major Internet namespaces, namely IP addresses and domain names, extra administrative policy and delegation to subordinate administrations is required because of the multi-layered distributed use of these resources.

Hostname

Label that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network and that is used to identify the device in various forms of electronic communication, such as the World Wide Web.