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Computers & Technology > Web Design Explaining the difference between a URL and a domain: 2 of 3

A web address is broken down into three parts, the protocol eg. http://, the domain name eg. example.com and the directory of the domain in which you want to receive eg. /news. The whole address is the url. A domain is simply the name of the site itself e.g. example.com. In short a domain is what the name servers use to locate the IP address where the server with the site is located where the entire url tells the server what protocol to use as well as what directory to look in to find the page being requested. When one types in a web address such as www.example.com, the request is sent to ...
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