What are the different components of a domain name?
A domain name is a combination of two or more words. The last word is called “Top Level Domain”. A Top-Level Domain (TLD) is the suffix that is attached to the end of a domain name. For instance, in the domain name, netlynx.com, “.com” is the TLD. Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) such as .com, .org, .net, can be registered by anybody. To the left of TLD comes “Second Level Domain”(SLD). e.g. in ‘netlynx.org’, netlynx is the second level domain, ‘.com’ is the TLD. One can also have ‘domains.netlynx.com’, here ‘domains’ is called the host name or “Third Level Domain”.
