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In general, a domain name identifies a network domain or an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, or a server computer. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name.
A reverse DNS lookup is a query of the DNS for domain names when the IP address is known. Multiple domain names may be associated with an IP address. The DNS stores IP addresses in the form of domain names as specially formatted names in pointer (PTR) records within the infrastructure top-level domain arpa. For IPv4, the domain is in-addr.arpa.
WHOIS. WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees. These resources include domain names, IP address blocks and autonomous systems, but it is also used for a wider range of other information.
URI, URN. Domain. World Wide Web. License. CC BY 4.0. Website. url .spec .whatwg .org. A uniform resource locator ( URL ), colloquially known as an address on the Web, [ 1] is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
Fully qualified domain name. A fully qualified domain name ( FQDN ), sometimes also referred to as an absolute domain name, [ 1] is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS). It specifies all domain levels, including the top-level domain and the root zone. [ 2]
Internationalized domain name. An internationalized domain name ( IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in non-Latin script or alphabet [ a] or in the Latin alphabet -based characters with diacritics or ligatures. [ b] These writing systems are encoded by ...
HTTP. In HTTP, " Referer " (a misspelling of " Referrer " [ 1]) is an optional HTTP header field that identifies the address of the web page (i.e., the URI or IRI ), from which the resource has been requested. By checking the referrer, the server providing the new web page can see where the request originated. In the most common situation, this ...
Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that allows a web page to access restricted resources from a server on a domain different than the domain that served the web page. A web page may freely embed cross-origin images, stylesheets, scripts, iframes, and videos.