FAQ Trouble Ticket System Resource Center User Guides Use this page to find definitions to common Internet and computer related terminology. A contact is the person or position responsible for a particular aspect of managing a domain name , such as the billing or the technical side of it. D DNS see domain name system domain name Domain name generally refers to the combination of a second level domain and a top level domain. A domain name technically points to a domain not a web server or specific machine on the internet.
Domain parking is a special form of domain hosting.
Usually a parked domain resolves to a webserver with a page announcing that the domain has been registered. The domain name system allows users of the internet to connect to different computers and servers using a name instead of an IP address . Names within the system start with a specific name on the left and become more general when read to the right, the opposite of a phone number. The name 'clown.circus.org' refers to the computer named 'clown' which is part of the domain 'circus.org'. F FQDN 'FQDN' stands for 'Fully Qualified Domain Name' which is the host name and a domain name that resolves to a specific machine on the internet.