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Originally Posted by Banana
Torifile is spot on. I used to think that was the case, before I learned that it's parsed backward, the .com/.org/.edu being the top level domain and progressing downward. Before then, I thought WWW was a special subnet of Internet that's somehow more searchable. Now it seems to be simply a common named subdomain which is stored as a folder on one's server.
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"host.subdomain.domain" where domain=TLD (or Top-Level Domain). It could also be described as "host.subdomain.domain.tld" or whatever...
It's just the human remember-able representation of an IP address. Shove a name in a name server, turn the crank, and you get an IP address out. That's what is really is being used - the IP address.
Once it "gets there" the story can change though, if you figure virtual servers using a single IP address...