fully qualified domain name
fully qualified domain name
(networking)With the explosion of interest in the Internet following theadvent of the World-Wide Web, domain names (especially themost significant two components, e.g. "sun.com", andespecially in the ".com" tld) have become a valuable part ofmany companies' "brand". The allocation of these, overseen byICANN, has therefore become highly political and isperformed by a number of different registrars. There aredifferent registries for the different tlds.
A final dot on the end of a FQDN can be used to tell the DNSthat the name is fully qualified and so needs no extrasuffixes added, but it is not required.
See also network, the, network address.