Domain name
String that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.
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Domain name registrar
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
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.
Method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
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
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.
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.
In the latter form, a hostname is also called a domain name.
World Wide Web
World's dominant software platform.
Multiple web resources with a common theme and usually a common domain name make up a website.