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05-26-2019 , 03:55 PM

de4df1sh

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Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 6,893

What is it called when a website's domain is like:

http://baltimore.legistar.com

What is the baltimore.legistar part called?

I see this sometimes where there's a large website and they appended something else to it such as:

www.bigwebsite._____.org

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05-26-2019 , 05:04 PM

okiidokii

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Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 240

It's called a Subdomain.

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For example, west.example.com and east.example.com/ are subdomains of the example.com domain, which in turn is a subdomain of the com top-level domain (TLD). A "subdomain" expresses relative dependence, not absolute dependence: for example, wikipedia.org comprises a subdomain of the org domain, and en.wikipedia.org comprises a subdomain of the domain wikipedia.org.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdomain

Last edited by okiidokii; 05-26-2019 at 05:12 PM.

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05-26-2019 , 11:17 PM

stevemcrae

stranger

Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 3

subdomain
legistar.com is the root domain

you can have multiple subdomains for a root domain. You can set them in domain manager

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05-27-2019 , 05:14 AM

okiidokii

journeyman

Join Date: Feb 2018 Posts: 240

@stevemcrae

com is the root or top level domain (TLD), legistar in above example is a subdomain of com. Refer to the link i posted above for details.

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