Common Protocols Multicast Addresses Ethernet Numbers Tech Essays Internet Course Solaris Information Misc. IDS Sniffers Vulnerability Scanners Port Scanners Network Monitoring Firewall Ping NetBIOS Password Packet Tools Promiscuous Detection Fingerprinting Phone Steganography HTML NT Misc. In this section, we'll be concentrating our attention on domain names .
Internet domains form the basis of the common Internet naming scheme.
Domains are structured in the form of an inverted tree. Each branch or leaf on the tree is labeled with an simple alphanumeric string, and a complete domain name is written by stringing all the labels together, separated by periods. Incidentally, there is no standard way to visually distinguish a branch from a leaf. In fact, the Internet domain system makes no distinction between the two, since branches can have any attributes of a leaf, and leaves can have children added to them and become branches. They manage the shaded area of the domain name space.