The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Hypertext is structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text.
In http: /www.pcwebopedia.comIindex.html, the domain name is pcwebopedia.com. Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which top level domain (TLD) it belongs to.
There are only a limited number of such domains .
For example:
•gov — Government agencies
.edu — Educational institutions
.org — Organizations (nonprofit)
.mil — Military
.com — commercial business
.net — Network organizations
.ca — Canada
.th — Thailand
