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domain name
(I) The style of identifier--a sequence of case-insensitive ASCII
labels separated by dots ("bbn.com.")--defined for subtrees in the
Internet Domain Name System [R1034] and used in other Internet
identifiers, such as host names (e.g., "rosslyn.bbn.com."),
mailbox names (e.g., "rshirey@bbn.com."), and URLs (e.g.,
"http://www.rosslyn.bbn.com/foo"). (See: distinguished name,
domain.)
(C) The domain name space of the DNS is a tree structure in which
each node and leaf holds records describing a resource. Each node
has a label. The domain name of a node is the list of labels on
the path from the node to the root of the tree. The labels in a
domain name are printed or read left to right, from the most
specific (lowest, farthest from the root) to the least specific
(highest, closest to the root). The root's label is the null
string, so a complete domain name properly ends in a dot. The top-
level domains, those immediately below the root, include COM, EDU,
GOV, INT, MIL, NET, ORG, and two-letter country codes (such as US)
from ISO-3166. [R1591] (See: country code.)
