Top-Level Domain
A top-level domain is a suffix of a website name. For example, in www.MyWebsiteAdviser.com website name, the top-level domain is "com". There are two main top-level domain classes:
- Generic top-level domains - used, at least in theory, by a particular class of organizations.
- Country code top-level domains - suffix attached to the domain name refering to a country.
Generic top-level domains (partial list)
- .com - for commercial organizations, but unrestricted
- .net - originally for network infrastructures, now unrestricted
- .edu - for post-secondary educational establishments
- .biz - for business use
- .org - originally for organizations not clearly falling within the other generic top-level domains, now unrestricted
- .gov - for governments and their agencies in the United States
- .info - for informational sites, but unrestricted
- .name - for families and individuals
- .mobi - for sites catering to mobile devices
- .int - for international organizations established by treaty
- .jobs - for employment-related sites
- .mil - for the US military
- .museum - for museums
- .pro - for certain professions
- .travel - for travel agents, airlines, hoteliers, tourism bureaus, etc.
Country code top-level domains (partial list)
- .au - Australia
- .at - Austria
- .be - Belgium
- .ca - Canada
- .cn - China
- .hr - Croatia/Hrvatska
- .cz - Czech Republic
- .fr - France
- .jp - Japan
- .nl - Netherlands
- .pl - Poland
- .ru - Russian Federation
- .ch - Switzerland
- .uk - United Kingdom
- .us - United States
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