Metropolitan areas are made up of the property. Any piece of land typically have an address: 123 Elm Street. The property can be developed and a house can be built on the ground.
On the Internet, sites like the homes and building structures. Domain names are the addresses to those.
Although not a bit more complicated than the above illustration, it is useful to think of the Internet in those terms.
Key terms you needthis:
Internet – The collective whole network of computers around the world. These include the World Wide Web, e-mail, FTP and other protocols.
World Wide Web – a part of the web sites where most live. It is graphically capable and is supported by such languages as HTML and CSS.
URL – Universal / Uniform Resource Locator – This is the full unique address of a website on the World Wide Web. It consists of three components: the protocol, the host and the typehostname. HTTP: / / is the protocol. WWW is the host type. example.com is the host name (domain name). Do they get together: http://www.example.com
HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The protocol of the World Wide Web.
Top Level Domain – The suffix at the end of the proper domain name:. COM,. NET,. ORG. BIZ etc.
The second level domain – the name portion of a domain. In example.com is. Com is the top level domain and the "example" is the second level domain.
Subdomains – This may be called the third-level domain names. They are attached as prefixes to the second level domain. In news.example.com, "news" is the subdomain.
Domain Name – The registered domain name with the attached protocol: www.example.com
Registered Domain Name – the second-level domain at the highest level with you: example.com
ccTLD – country code Top Level Domain> Name Examples. Us. The. Es
Domain registrar – a company that registers domain names for individual users.
DNS – Domain Name System – The system by which domain names IP addresses are translated into.
IP address – a number representing the "address" of a network or a computer.
ICANN – Internet Corporation for Names and destination phone numbers. This organization manages the DNS.
