The articleHow Web Servers Workdiscusses the concept ofdomain names．“Howstuffworks.com”我s a domain name. Thecomportion of the name is called thetop-level domain name．There is a very small set of generic top-level domain names, which you will probably recognize:
com- for commercial endeavorsorg- for non-profit organizationsnet- for network providersmil- for military organizationsgov- for government organizationsedu- for educational organizationsinfo- for entities providing information services
There are also a number of top-level domain names for individual countries, including countries like Canada (ca), Australia (au) and the United Kingdom (uk).
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IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Association, provides world-wide management of the top-level domain names. See the next page for more information and related links.
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