{"id":57811,"date":"2026-04-20T15:46:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/glossary\/domain-name-extension\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:37:24","slug":"domain-name-extension","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/glossary\/domain-name-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain name extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A domain name includes an extension, which is the suffix placed after the dot in a web address. For example, for www.definitions-marketing.com, the extension is &#8220;.com&#8221;. There are various types of domain name extensions, including generic extensions such as top-level domains (TLDs) and country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), as well as other less common ones. Generic extensions are typically associated with the nature of a website: for example, &#8220;.info&#8221; for news sites, &#8220;.com&#8221; and &#8220;.biz&#8221; for commercial sites, &#8220;.org&#8221; for organizations, and so on. However, some generic extensions, like &#8220;.com&#8221;, are available to everyone, regardless of the type of website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Country-code top-level domains are specific to each country, such as &#8220;.fr&#8221; for France, &#8220;.de&#8221; for Germany, &#8220;.cn&#8221; for China, &#8220;.it&#8221; for Italy, and so on. In some cases, registering a national domain extension requires proof of business activity or administrative presence in the corresponding country, while for other countries, registration is free but can be expensive. For example, the &#8220;.tv&#8221; extension for Tuvalu is primarily used by television channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A domain name includes an extension, which is the suffix placed after the dot in a web address. For example, for www.definitions-marketing.com, the extension is &#8220;.com&#8221;. There are various types of domain name extensions, including generic extensions such as top-level domains (TLDs) and country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs), as well as other less common ones. Generic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_glossary-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"glossary-categories":[97],"glossary-tags":[],"class_list":["post-57811","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","glossary-categories-domain-names-web-infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/57811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/57811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-categories?post=57811"},{"taxonomy":"glossary-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitionary.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-tags?post=57811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}