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The Internet, linking your computer to other computers around the world, is a way of transporting
content. The Web is software that lets you use that content…or contribute your own. The Web,
running on the mostly invisible Internet, is what you see and click on in your computer’s browser.
The Internet’s roots are in the U.S. during the late 1960s. The Web was invented 20 years later by
an Englishman working in Switzerland—though it had many predecessors.
To keep things “interesting,” many people use the term Internet to refer to both.
Domain name, often referred to as “web address”, is the address that people type into a browser
address bar to find your website. A registered domain name is unique to you and can’t be used by
anyone else, as it functions on the Internet in a similar way like a street address in the physical
world.
Domain Name Types
Top-Level Domain (TLD) refers to the suffix or the last part of a domain name. There’s a limited
list of predefined suffixes which includes:
Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLDs) is a generic top-level domain name that identifies the
domain class it is associated with (.com, .org, .edu, etc).
Country Code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) is a two-letter domain extension, such as .uk or .fr,
assigned to a country, geographic location or territory.
nTLDs refers to new top-level domain names that are geared towards brands organizations and
services, as they’re more customized, flexible and relevant. Examples of nTLDs include
“.voyage”, “.app”, “.ninja”, “.cool”, etc.