domain name

[doh-meyn neym]

noun

Computers.

1. a name owned by a person or organization and used as an internet address, consisting of one or more alphabetic or alphanumeric sequences separated by dots, followed by a suffix indicating the top-level domain.

   Our domain name is dictionary.com.

   Statistics Canada has the domain name statcan.gc.ca.

domain name

noun

1. 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

domain name

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of domain name¹

First recorded in 1980–85