What do we mean by a top-level domain?

[laragiles]

What do we mean by a top-level domain?

[taxiongo]

Top-level domain (TLD) refers to the last segment of a domain name, or the part that follows immediately after the "dot" symbol. TLDs are mainly classified into two categories: generic TLDs and country-specific TLDs.

[smartscraper]

A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain.

[Electrum]

The top-level domain (TLD), sometimes called the internet domain extension, is the very last section of an internet domain name, located after the last dot, to help form a fully qualified domain name ( FQDN ). For example, the top-level domain of lifewire.com and google.com are both .com, but the TLD of wikipedia.org is .org .