©2000-2002 3Dize Inc. All rights reserved |
Domain Names |
What Is a Domain Name? A domain name is a unique alpha-numeric (consisting of letters or numbers or both) name used to identify a particular computer, i.e. web server or mail server on the Internet. Domain names allow Internet users to type in a name, such as www.mysite.com to identify a numeric address such as 207.46.131.21. The purpose of domain names is to allow ordinary users connected to the Internet to find web sites and send email to addresses with familiar names such as "mysite.com" or "coolpagehelp.com" without having to memorize the numerical addresses that actually locate the computers or servers on the Internet. |
Top Level Domains (TLD) A top level domain (TLD) is the suffix that is attached to the end of a domain name. For instance, in the domain name mysite.com, ".com" is the TLD. There are two types of top-level domains: global and country code. Global Top Level Domains (gTLD) were created to be used by the Internet public, while country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) were created to be used by each individual country, as they deem necessary. |
Global TLD's: .com .net .edu .mil .org .gov |
Examples of Country Code TLD's: .us (United States) .de (Germany) .ca (Canada) .co.uk (United Kingdom) .dk (Denmark) .be (Belgium) |
Lower Class Domains A Lower Class Domain is a domain that is owned by a third world country or a poorer country that is technologically behind the rest of the world. These countries have a high criminality rate and internet fraud is common and rampant. Using a Lower Class Domain puts you at risk. For instance, most online e-commerce websites will "flag" purchases made from a Lower Class Domain, declining the transaction. Also, the Hosting available in these third world countries is unreliable with frequent service interuptions. |
Afghanistan af Albania al Algeria dz Andorra ad Angola ao Anguilla ai Antartica aq Antigua and Barbuda ag Argentina ar Armenia am Aruba aw Ascension Island ac Azerbaijan az Bahamas bs Bahrain bh Bangladesh bd Barbados bb Belarus by Belize bz Benin bj Bermuda bm Bhutan bt Bolivia bo Bosnia and Herzegovina ba Bouvet Island bv Botswana bw Brazil br British Ind. Ocean io Brunei Darussalam bn Bulgaria bg Burkina Faso bf Burundi bi C. African Republic cf Cambodia kh Cameroon cm Cap Verde cv Cayman Islands ky Chad td Chile cl China cn Christmas Island cx Cocos Islands cc Colombia co Comoros km Congo cd Congo Republic of cg Cook Islands ck Costa Rica cr "Cote dIvoire" ci Croatia/Hrvatska hr Cuba cu Cyprus cy Czech Republic cz Djibouti dj Dominica dm Dominican Republic do East Timor tp Ecuador ec Egypt eg El Salvador sv Eritrea er Estonia ee Ethiopia et Falkland Islands fk Faroe Islands fo Fiji fj French Guiana gf French Polynesia pf French S. Territories tf Gabon ga Gambia gm Georgia ge Ghana gh Gibraltar gi Greenland gl Grenada gd Guadeloupe gp Guernsey gg Guatemala gt Guam gu Guinea gn Guinea-Bissau gw Guinea (Equatorial gq Guyana gy Haiti ht Heard and McDonald I. hm Honduras hn Hong Kong hk Hungary hu Iceland is India in Indonesia id Iran ir Iraq iq Isle of Man im Israel il Jamaica jm Jersey je Jordan jo Kenya ke Kiribati ki Korea North kr Kuwait kw Kazakhstan kz Kyrgyzstan kg Laos la Latvia lv Lebanon lb |
Lesotho ls Liberia lr Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ly Liechtenstein li Lithuania lt Luxembourg lu Macau mo Macedonia mk Madagascar mg Mali ml Malta mt Maldives mv Malawi mw Malaysia my Marshall Islands mh Martinique mq Mauritania mr Mauritius mu Mayotte yt Mexico mx Micronesia fm Moldova Republic of md Monaco mc Mongolia mn Montserrat ms Morocco ma Mozambique mz Myanmar mm Namibia na Nauru nr Nepal np Netherlands Antilles an New Caledonia nc Nicaragua ni Niger ne Nigeria ng Niue nu Norfolk Island nf Northern Mariana I. mp Oman om Pakistan pk Palau pw Palestinian ps Paraguay py Panama pa Papua New Guinea pg Peru pe Philippines ph Pitcairn Island pn Poland pl Puerto Rico pr Qatar qa Reunion Island re Romania ro Russia ru Rwanda rw Samoa American as Samoa Western ws San Marino sm Sao Tome and Principe st Saudi Arabia sa Senegal sn Seychelles sc Sierra Leone sl Singapore sg Slovak Republic sk Slovenia si Solomon Islands sb Somalia so South Georgia gs Sri Lanka lk St Kitts and Nevis kn St Lucia lc St Helena sh St Pierre and Miquelon pm St Vincent and Grenad. vc Sudan sd Suriname sr Svalbard and Jan M.I. sj Swaziland sz Syria sy Tajikistan tj Tanzania tz Thailand th Tokelau tk Togo tg Tonga to Trinidad and Tobago tt Tunisia tn Turkmenistan tm Turks and Caicos I. tc Turkey tr Tuvalu tv Uganda ug Ukraine ua United Arab Emirates ae Uruguay uy US Minor Outlying I. um Uzbekistan uz Vanuatu vu Vatican City Holy Se va Venezuela ve Vietnam vn Wallis and Futuna Is. wf Western Sahara eh Yemen ye Yugoslavia yu Zambia zm Zimbabwe zw |
Domain Name Rules .COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites .NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet infrastructure .ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations .MIL - used by the United States Military .EDU - used by educational institutions .GOV - used by the United States Government • Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-") • Cannot begin or end with a hyphen • Must have less than 63 characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG (.com, .net and .org domain names exceeding a total of 26 characters are supported by most web browsers. However, certain web browsers, email programs and other Internet related applications (FTP) may not support domain names over 26 characters.) |