Country-code TLDs (ccTLDs) represent specific geographic locations. For example: .mx represents Mexico and .eu represents the European Union. Some ccTLDs have residency restrictions. For example,…
A second-level domain (SLD) is the portion of the domain name that is located immediately to the left of the dot and domain name extension.…
A top-level domain (TLD) is the part of the domain name located to the right of the dot (” . “). The most common TLDs…
WHAT IS A DOMAN NAME? Unless you are physically running a website, you may not know exactly what a domain name is or how it…
Nameservers are the Internet’s equivalent to phone books. A nameserver maintains a directory of domain names that match certain IP addresses (computers). The information from…
A gTLD is a generic top-level domain name. These are not linked to geographical regions or special authorities. gTLDs are typically used to describe organizations…
IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic…
Every computer connected to the internet has an IP (or Internet Protocol) address—the address that other computers can read to figure out where to send…
There are two versions of Internet Protocol in popular use: version 4 (IPv4) and version 6 (IPv6). IPv4 was developed in the early 1980s. It…
There are currently five RIRs: AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RIPE NCC. These non-profit organizations are responsible for distributing and managing IP addresses on a…
A URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is the address of an Internet website or webpage. Think of a URL as a street address for the…