Activities with commercial components will normally be referred to the office of the Vice President for Business and Finance for additional review. For administrative units within the university, the office of the Vice President for Business and Finance is the approving entity. Consult University Legal Services regarding appropriate use of company logos or other identifiers. An Internet name that resolves to another primary Internet name such as a hostname. Whether a name is an alias name or a primary name is transparent to the user.
Aliases are useful for indicating a range of services that refer to the same physical servers.
A network name associated with an organization. Iowa State University's domain name is iastate.edu . Within a domain name, there may be a number of hosts, following a naming convention of servername .domain . For example, cc.iastate.edu was a host within the iastate.edu domain name and referred to a Computation Center server. The Domain Name Service translates references to a name, such as webct1.cc.iastate.edu , into an IP address, such as 129.186.1.35 .