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Domain Names

The domain name of a hostname is what you would get if you took the front word and dot off. If you had a hostname of www.google.com then the domain name would be google.com. It gets deeper still. The domain name of google.com is com. And the domain name of com is . Okay, maybe that is too deep, but you probably get the idea.



Joseph Colton 2002-09-24