Domain name

A domain name is a human-readable web address (e.g., "google.com") that points to an IP address and helps users to access websites or other resources in a convenient way.

Extensions
See main article: URL 

Domain names have extensions (called "top-level domains") at the end of the URL. For example, ".com", ".net" and ".org" are the most commonly used domain name extensions. The most popular domain extension is .com with more than 100 million domains registered. The .com extension stands for "commercial", .org for "organization" and .net for "network".

There are also country-specific domain name extensions. For example, the United Kingdom has the ".uk" domain extension and Japan has ".jp".

Related pages
Domain Name System
Domain name registrar

References