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Laura Vazquez

Move aside, .com: .wed, other domains will make Internet more crowded - Washington Post - 1 views

articles.washingtonpost.com/...ain-names-internet-corporation

Internet Web domains top-level ICANN

shared by Laura Vazquez on 11 Sep 13 - No Cached
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  • Laura Vazquez on 11 Sep 13
     
    ICANN was offering the chance to buy the top-level domain of a Web address. One woman paid $185,000 to own the domain .wed. Now over 1,900 new Web names are going to be introduced.
  • Amanda French on 11 Sep 13
     
    Great article, Laura, and nice summary of it. Thanks!
Jimin Kwon

Understanding a URL - 1 views

www.smccd.edu/...url.html

URL internet basics computer information technology

shared by Jimin Kwon on 15 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Jimin Kwon on 15 Sep 13
     
    This web page has an easy and detailed explanation about what a URL is and its three basic parts: the protocol, the server name, and the resource ID.
  • Amanda French on 16 Sep 13
     
    In theory that's a good resource, Jimin, except that it's wrong. :) The "server name" could be anything, and has very little to do with the domain name. It is true that you can usually log in to a server (a remote computer) by giving whatever program you're logging in with the domain name, but that doesn't mean that the server itself has the same name as the website. That page is also very, very wrong in calling the the top-level domain (.org etc.) the "domain name." It's important to note that that page was almost certainly written by a librarian, not a tech professional. (Of course, I'm an English PhD, not a tech professional myself, but still.) And when I looked at the source code, I could tell that it was hand-coded in HTML, which indicates to me that it's probably many years old. Wish there were a "dislike" button. :)
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