What does a domain name mean? Categorization of Domain Names

Domain name is the Internet a just thing, to know that all websites are domain name + server + code and some parts of the composition, so you want to create a website, understand the domain name is a necessary prerequisite, speaking of which, what is the domain name? There are still people on the domain name is a very vague understanding of the domain name of the circle is very large, understand the domain name will get unexpected gains.

First, the meaning of the domain name

Domain name (English: Domain Name), that is, the Web site, we often enter a string of Web sites on the Internet, with the terminology is by a string of names separated by points on the Internet, a computer or computer group name, used in the transmission of data on the computer's location identification (sometimes also referred to as geographic location).

A domain name consists of several components, including the top-level domain (TLD), second-level domains and third-level domains, with the top-level domain located on the far right of the URL generic top-level domains such as .com, .org, .net, .gov, .edu and .biz.

Second, the classification of domain names

First, the world domain names (international top-level domain-names, referred to as iTDs), also known as the world's top-level domain names. This is also the earliest and most widely used domain name. For example, .com for industrial and commercial enterprises, .net for network providers, and .org for non-profit organizations.

Second, the domestic domain name, also known as the domestic level domain names (national top-level domainnames, referred to as nTLDs), that is, in accordance with the country's different allocations of different suffixes, these domain names that is, the country's domestic top-level domain names. Now more than 200 countries and regions are in accordance with ISO3166 country code allocation of cutting-edge domain names, such as China is cn, the United States is us, Japan is jp.