DOMAIN NAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domain name mean? 

• DOMAIN NAME (noun)
  The noun DOMAIN NAME has 1 sense:

1. strings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet

  Familiarity information: DOMAIN NAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMAIN NAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

domain names are organized hierarchically with the more generic parts to the right

Hypernyms ("domain name" is a kind of...):

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

 Context examples 

The attack involved targeting Dyn's domain name system servers with a large volume of requests, rendering it incapable of serving replies to legitimate requests — a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)