Q4-What
is a domain name?
A domain name locates an organization or other entity on the
Internet. For example, the domain name
www.totalbaseball.com
locates an Internet address for "totalbaseball.com" at Internet point
199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www". The
"com" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization
or entity (in this example, "commercial") and is called the top-level
domain name. The "totalbaseball" part of the domain name defines the
organization or entity and together with the top-level is called the
second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be
thought of as the "readable" version of the Internet address.
A third level can be defined to identify a particular host server at the
Internet address. In our example, "www" is the name of the server that
handles Internet requests. (A second server might be called "www2".) A
third level of domain name is not required. For example, the fully-qualified
domain name could have been "totalbaseball.com" and the server
assumed.