What is domain extension?

[harshal]

What is domain extension?

[BreezeHost]

Domain extension is an online list of county code for instance: .com for business, .org for organization, .edu for education, .mil for military & .net for network International domain extension country codes like .us, .uk & .de.

[Sreesri]

The definition of a domain extension is the notation at the end of a web address that specifies an Internet category or a country code.

[salenaadam]

An example of a domain extension which is an Internet category is .com for commercial, .org for organization, .gov for government, .edu for all educational institutions, .mil for military or .net for a network

[EqServers]

Domain extension can be simply defined as the notation at the end of a web address that specifies an Internet category or a country code. It is the last part of your domain name for e.g. .com, .co.uk, .org, etc.

[hynds]

I had the article about domain extension here below

There’re thousands of domain name extensions nowadays. Each will represent niche, market or something fun in the world. However some of popular extensions are .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ,…are used most, they’re called gTLD

2 types of TLD

+gTLD is Generic Top-level Domains. We have 2 types of gTLD

-unSponsored gTLDs (such as: .com, .net, .org, .name).
-sponsored gTLDs (such as: .shop, .mobi, .jobs, .travel). Some new gTLDs (such as nTLD: .fun, .web, .link, .club, .click).

+ccTLD is Country code top-level domains such as: .io, .in, .me, .co, .de,…

Source here: Domain Name Extensions – What do they mean?

Hope this helps!

[John194]

it is the notation at the end of a web address that specifies an Internet category or a country code.

[saferinsulation]

A domain extension is the last part of your domain name example : .com, .in, .co.in. there are soon to be hundreds of new domain extension including .london, .shop and .blog.

[ridhudhadwal]

Thanks guys for sharing such an impressive knowledge.

[ecengineers]

Domain extension have a low slight impact on your rankings. Features like domain-level keyword and domain extension have a low correlation to search rankings, but they still have. And they are still in front of social metrics like Twitter "retweet".

[leasedlayer]

ccTLD, TLD, gTLD, IDN ccTLD, second level, third level and subdomains are the domain extensions used with domain names.

[martina]

domain extension. ... An example of a domain extension which is an Internet category is .com for commercial, .org for organization, .gov for government, .edu for all educational institutions, .mil for military or .net for a network. An example of a domain extension which is a country code is .us, .uk or .de.

[Gracy]

A domain extension is the end part of your domain name.Example .com, .org, .net

[Geetanjali]

Domain extension which is an Internet category is .com for commercial, .org for organization, .gov for government, .edu for all educational institutions, .mil for military or .net for a network. An example of a domain extension which is a country code is .us, .uk or .de.

[swikriti.sharma09]

Domain extension is the notation or extension at the end of a web address that specifies a internet category or country code.


examples of Domain extension for internet category include .com for commercial, .mil for military, .edu for educational institutions, .org for organization, .net for a network, .gov for government


Country level Domain extension include .uk for United Kingdom, .in for India, .au for Australia, .br for Brazil, .fr for France