Identifying websites based on their domain

Hardware

equals the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system

Software

is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it

.com

Commercial business

.edu

Educational institutions

.mp3 or .wav

File extensions for sound files

.gov

Government agencies

.mil

Military

.net

Network organization

.org

Non-profit organizations

.xls

The file extension for a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet

.doc

The file extension for a Microsoft Word document

.jpg

The file extension for a picture

.mi

The file extension for a state domain

.txt

The file extension for a text document

.pdf

The file extension for an adobe document

Domain Name

are used to identify one or more IP addresses

URL

Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator it is the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.