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ARTICLE · 25 JUNE 2001

Recovering Your Domain Name

Robinson Sheppard Shapiro
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CanadaMedia, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment
Severine Biderman
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What Is A Domain Name?

  • It is the simplified version of an Internet Protocol ("IP") address which permits the location of a web site in the "World Wide Web". IP addresses, composed of a series of numbers, were devised as a Domain Name System ("DNS"). In order to facilitate the use of these web site addresses and dispense with the difficulty of memorizing long numbers, a more convenient address was derived using letters generally associated with a corporate name or a trade mark; this series of letters is commonly known as a domain name.
  • The domain name must contain a suffix of two or three letters, called Top Level Domains ("TLD"). Depending on what they designate, TLDs can be either an organization such as ".com" for commercial entities, ".net" for internet service providers, ".org" for non-profit organizations, or a country of origin, such as ".ca" for Canada, ".fr" for France or ".uk" for the United Kingdom. In addition, other TLDs exist such as ".mil" designating the

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