Thursday, July 29, 2010

Domain names.

A domain name is the part of a web address that determines which website you will be connected to. For example, in the web address, http://www.kangan.edu.au/, the part that says "kangan.edu.au" is the domain name.

There are a few different suffixes for domain names:
- .gov refers to a Government website
- .net refers to a networking website
- .org refer to an organisations website
- .com refers to commercial business

A lot of domain names include a country code. Some examples are:
- .au for Australia
- .ca for Canada
- .nl for the Netherlands
- .jp for Japan

A couple of websites I like to visit are:
- http://www.tenth-planet.ca (Country code is .ca, meaning that the web server is located in Canada)
&
- http://www.quietlifephotography.ca (this Country code is .ca, meaning that this web server is also located in Canada).
These website don't seem to have a particular suffix to define the exact type of sites they are.

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