Domain Names are the titles
you type into your browser address window to surf the web.
www.aol.com is a domain name.
microsoft.com/ie
is a domain name. Of course,
www.websear.ch is a domain name.
Not all domain names have to
end in .com, .net, or .org. Much of the World Wide Web has domain
names that end in country codes. Country codes are two letter
designations for countries. Like postal codes for the World Wide
Web. The US is .us. The United Kingdom is .uk. Canada is .ca.
Click here for a list of country codes.
Individuals or businesses can
own domain names of any stripe, including those domain names that
end in country codes. For instance, this web site is named
Websear.ch,
which name we own exclusively. No one else in the world can use that
name.
Some of the other domain
names that
www.websear.ch
owns are listed to the right. Note that many of them end in country
codes.
A country code, or the more
common domain names ending in .com, .net and .org, are called first
level domains. So in
www.paintbru.sh,
the .sh is a first level domain, the paintbru is a second level
domain, and the www is a third level domain, sometimes called a C
name or alias.
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Paintbru.sh is
Teresa Castaneda's art site.
Alleg.ro is Franz Roehmann's music services site.
Arraj.com is an American Inns of Court site.
Juvenilelaw.net is just what it says.
Most of these
sites live on our web servers on DSL connections and Win2k
Server.
We also own these second
level domains. The third level domains can be anything we
want.
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