domain name
noun Computers.
a name owned by a person or organization and consisting of an alphabetical or alphanumeric sequence followed by a suffix indicating the top-level domain: used as an Internet address to identify the location of particular Web pages: Our domain name is the name of our school followed by .edu.
Origin of domain name
1990–1995
Words nearby domain name
Example sentences from the Web for domain name
She is from Lake Placid, in upstate New York, where her father was in the domain-name business.
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British Dictionary definitions for domain name
domain name
noun
computing
a unique name, corresponding to one or more numeric IP addresses, used to identify a particular web page or set of web pages on the internet
Scientific definitions for domain name
domain name
A series of alphanumeric strings that are separated by periods, such as www.hmco.com, that is an address of a computer network connection and that identifies the owner of the address.