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Domain name

In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services, and more.

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Purpose

History

Domain name space

Domain name registration

Resale of domain names

Domain name confusion

Uses in website hosting

Abuse and regulation

IDN variants

Fictitious domain name

Misspelled domain names

Domain name spoofing

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Domain name

Nodes160
Edges159
Triples273
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.0125
Components1

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Domain name

Top relations

related to External links · 27
Domain name → Assigned Names, Background, Bias, CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES, Country Code TLDICANN, Domain Names, IANA Two, IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION, Internet, Internet Corporation, Internet Standard, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2, Microsoft Top Level Domain, NumbersInternic, October, PDF, Policy Issues Congressional Research, Program Factsheet
related to Abuse and regulation · 18
Domain name → Assigned Names, Critics, Despite, For, ICANN, IETF, Internet, Internet Corporation, Numbers, Other, Particularly, Site Finder, Site Finder's, The, VeriSign, VeriSign Site Finder, VeriSign's, While VeriSign
related to Fictitious domain name · 16
Domain name → Bing, Companies, Conan O'Brien, DNS, Domain, Hornymanatee, IANA, MarkMonitor, Microsoft, NBC, O'Brien, The, This, TLD, URI, Visual Studio
related to Top-level domains · 15
Domain name → ARPA, As, DNS, Domain Name System, During, Every, In, Internet, ISO-3166, October, The, These, TLDs, Top-level, When
related to Administration · 14
Domain name → Assigned Names, ICANN, In, Internet, Internet Corporation, More, Numbers, Often, RDAP, Registration Data Access Protocol, Registries, The, TLD, WHOIS
related to history · 14
Domain name → ARPANET, By, Domain Name System, In, Internet, Internet Engineering Task Force, March, Massachusetts, RFC, SRI, SRI International, Symbolics Inc, The, TLD
related to IDN variants · 14
Domain name → According, BC, Chinese, DNS, Domain, ICANN Business Constituency, IDN, Internationalization, Internet, It, John Levine, The, Under Domain Name Variants, Unfortunately
related to Purpose · 14
Domain name → DNS, Domain, Domain Keys, Hostnames, Individual Internet, Internet, Session Initiation Protocol, SIP, Such, The, Uniform Resource Identifiers, Uniform Resource Locators, URIs, URLs
related to Risk mitigation · 14
Domain name → Conformance, Data, Domain Name System Security, Domain-based Message Authentication, DomainKeys Identified Mail, Email, Extensions, IETF, Policy Framework, Reporting, Simple, SSL, Suite, System
related to Technical requirements and process · 13
Domain name → Administrative, Based, Billing, Furthermore, However, In, IP, Management, Most, Name, Some, Technical, The

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Important terminology

domain name names domains internet com top-level dns example used may also icann use address system org registrars servers often

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Domain nameis astring that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy0.90text
Domain nameis acomponent of a uniform resource locator0.90text
Domain nameis adomain name used in a work of fiction or popular culture to refer to a domain that does not actually exist0.90text
websitesinstance offor Internet resources0.80text
exampleinstance ofThis list contains domain names0.80text
localinstance ofThis list contains domain names0.80text
localhostinstance ofThis list contains domain names0.80text
and testinstance ofThis list contains domain names0.80text
BMWinstance ofCases include brands0.80text
Googleinstance ofCases include brands0.80text
and Canon.Second-levelinstance ofCases include brands0.80text
lower level domainsBelow the top-level domains in the domain name hierarchy are the second-level domaininstance ofCases include brands0.80text

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