Top-level domain

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/top-level-domain

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the types?Includes generic TLDs (gTLDs), country-code TLDs (ccTLDs), and sponsored TLDs (sTLDs)
2. What is a top-level domain (TLD)?A top‑level domain is the last part of a web address, like the ".com" in "www.example.com." It tells the internet where to look for the site.
3. Why do we need TLDs for websites?TLDs help computers turn easy‑to‑remember names into the numbers (IP addresses) that actually point to a website. Without them the internet would be a big, untidy list that’s hard to use.

Top-Level Domain (TLD): The final segment of a domain name, representing the highest level of the hierarchical domain name space.
Domain Name System (DNS): The distributed, hierarchical naming system used to identify computers and resources connected to the Internet or other networks.
ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the global non-profit organization responsible for coordinating the DNS.
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN): The complete domain name for a specific computer, or host, on the Internet, ending with a root zone indicator.