URL extensions
The final parts of the URL (separated by dots) are called extensions. A well-known example, say for Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk) is .uk which indicates that the website has been registered as of UK nationality. All domain names carry a national identifier as the last extension, except for those registered as being of USA nationality.
Taking Amazon as an example:
http://www.amazon.com No national identifier signifies the United States
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ .uk signifies the United Kingdom
http://www.amazon.de/ .de signifies Germany
http://www.amazon.fr/ .fr signifies France
http://www.amazon.co.jp/ .jp signifies Japan
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There are many websites which list these geographical extensions. One of these is http://www.iana.org/cctld/cctld-whois.htm Use this or any other appropriate site to find the geographic extensions for the following countries: Indonesia India Netherlands Latvia South Africa |
Let us look further into www.amazon.co.uk The extension between the company name and the geographical extension describes the type of organisation involved. "co" is for UK commercial companies.
Each country has its own method for the domain name extensions. Most of the sites you will be dealing with will be UK or USA based, so let us look at the most common extensions for these countries.
Let's look first at United Kingdom extensions ...
