N-GEN Communications Web-based Seminars ©NGCS

Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies

Module 6 - Internet, Intranet, Extranet, e-Commerce and Web Services                                        Slide 8 of 70 _________________                                                                                  __________

                                    Internet Address and Routing

                                    Connection-Orientated Protocol

                                    Computer Name

                                    Organization Domain

                                    Top Level Domain

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Internet addresses are the key to using the Internet. Individuals use mail addresses to send messages to other Internet users, and use host addresses to retrieve files or connect to hosts that provide Internet services. All these addresses are unique.

HTTP    - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol is a connection-orientated protocol used by the World Wide Web service to exchange data. A browser uses this protocol to retrieve information from the Web servers.

John_Doe - User identification obtained from the service provider (Hotmail).

Hotmail - Electronic-mail service provider

Com - Top level domain, Hotmail is a commercial organization.