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10Things I Didn’t Know About Domain Names (addon, parked and sub domains-aliased
and what is redirected).

A domain name is the name you pay for and reserve to give your particular website a
unique identity.

Domain name system (DNS) is the protocol that translates a fully qualified domain name
into a numeric internet protocol (IP) address needed to route information across the
Internet.

FQDN stands for fully qualified domain name.that has the format hostname.registered-
domain-name.top-level-domain.

Top level domains have suffixes also known as extensions. These give a clue as to what
type of organization the website represents.

DNS servers are fundamental to the Internet. They organize and find everything on the
WWW.

The United States top-level domains (TLD) include, among others, gov for government,
edu for education & mil for military.

Other nations have country codes, such as .fr for France, de for Germany etc.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is in charge of the
coordination of domain names.

Subdomain is a division in the DNS.

Many websites have links that when selected redirect the client to additional information
relevant to the website.