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The meaning of domain name extensions

There are several domain name extensions on the Internet. So what exactly is a domain name extension? It actually the last part of a URL. For e.g. Http://www.domainname.com The "com" at the end is a domain name extension.

How this extension came about is to identify the category the website is in even before the visitor enter the website. The most common one is .com which stands for commercial website based in USA. Next would be .net which stand for the Internet. Another common one is .org which stands for a non-profit organization.

Sometimes, there's another extension behind all these extension. There are the country codes of where the website is based. .sg stands for Singapore .my stands for Malaysia .tw stands for Taiwan and .cn stands for china.

However, nowadays there are many new extensions coming up. With .info for informative site .tv for television related website.

In the future, i believe it can be anything.

You can get a domain name by buying it from various online retailers costing from as low as $8 to as high as $20 dollars depending on the provider. Usually once you purchase a webhosting plan, you will get a free domain name of any extensions as part of the package.

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