How many domain extensions are available?

There are 280 plus domain extensions are available.

Most people are not much aware of the domain extension. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been controlling the domain namespace since 1998.

The leading companies and organizations can operate their own domain extensions. These domain extensions are making the people surf as the easy one.

Generally, several internet domain extensions are available. The common domain extensions are .com, .edu, .net, .gov, and .mil and .org. These domain extensions will be widely classified into three parts. They are

Subdomain

The subdomain is nothing but the part of the larger domain that will come under the domain name system (DNS). The subdomains are used as a way to create a web address for specific and unique content with a website.

The subdomain will make the easy way for the users to navigate to the particular site. For example, if the main domain is example.com, then its corresponding subdomain is an example/media/gallery.

When the user is using this subdomain, then he/she can directly navigate to the gallery location.

Second-level domain

The second-level domain is a specific part of a website or a page domain name or URL address. The second-level domain is a complement for the first level domain.

The second-level domain is contacting the portion of the domain name to the left of the domain extensions.

Top-level domain 

The top-level domain is nothing but the domain name extensions. Whenever the person is mentioning the Top-level domain of the website, they are mentioning only the domain extensions of the website. .com, .org are the examples of the top-level domain.

There are three types of top-level domains available in nature. They are generic top-level domain, country code top-level domain or the sponsored top-level domain.

The generic top-level domains are referred to as domain extensions that are generic in nature. You can register the generic top-level domain name with free cost. These domain extensions are mostly used in the professionals and personal domain names.

As the name indicates the country code Top-level domain extensions will be mostly used for the particular region or a country. The sponsored domain extensions will be used for specific domain names and not for general purpose.

Thus, therefore, with the help of the domain extensions, you can predict the website. Make use of this article, if you need any clarifications regarding the domain name extensions and their types.

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