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The Language of Internet Addresses

Alan Levine, DIST

You may know that the right most part of an Internet address indicates its broadest category (i.e..edu is for educational insitutions, .com is for commercial companies, .org is for non-profit organizations). For example, you decipher MCLIs web server address www.mcli.dist. maricopa.edu

So an Internet name reads right to left, from general to most specific. For other non-US sites, the right-most part of an address is a two letter code designated for that country:

www.dot.gov.au is a World Wide Web site (www) for the Department of Transportation (dot) in the government (gov) of Australia (au)

demon.co.uk is the electronic mailing address for someone who gets Internet service from Demon Internet (demon), a company (co) in the United Kingdom (uk)

Here is a quiz for you! Match the Internet code to the country it represents: 

        AZ     Chad

	CH     Sri Lanka 

	GT     Austria

	KH     Azerbaidjan 

	LK     Guatemala

	PW     Ivory Coast 

	ZA     Cambodia

	AT     Swaziland 

	CI     Switzerland

	CX     Palau

	TD     South Africa 

	SZ     Christmas Island

Answers

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Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI)
Maricopa County Community College District

The Internet Connection at MCLI is Alan Levine --}
Comments to levine@maricopa.edu

URL: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/labyforum/Spr96/spr96L6.html

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