Domain name

A domain name is a website's address on the {{Glossary("Internet")}}. Domain names are used in {{Glossary("URL","URLs")}} to identify which server a specific webpage belongs to. The domain name consists of a hierarchical sequence of names (labels) separated by periods (dots) and ending with an {{glossary("TLD","extension")}}.

For example, developer.mozilla.org.

See also

• Domain name on Wikipedia
• Understanding domain names