fellow geeks.... fqdn ....
 

We all know that if you wanna have a presence online, you need a fully qualified domain name... or FQDN.

About to teach the section on DNS/bind configuration for my Linux class, did a search for giggles on a domain, and myfqdn.org was available.

Operative word - was.

Just gonna park it, but if you want a subdomain off it, send me a PM

Is there such a thing as a non qualified or partial qualified similar qualified domain? Why the "fully" part of the acronym?

pelicanparts.com is a domain name.

forums is a host name.

forums is a host in the domain pelicanparts.com

forums.pelicanparts.com is a fully qualified domain name

I've had my own domain and servers to host it since 1991. ZIPBANG.COM
Got it back when the only domain registry was Network Solutions.
You had to mail a request on letterhead to prove if you were a business, .COM, or Service Provider, .NET and had to have Tax IDs to prove you were a School, .EDU or non-profit, .ORG.

A fully qualified domain name is HOST.DOMAIN.TLD were TLD is Top Level Domain and points to a specific IP address.
The only TLDs used to be .COM, .NET, .ORG, and .EDU.
Now there are all kinds of TLDs. .INFO, .BIZ were the first.
Now you can even get .NINJA, .SOCIAL, .ROCKS, .WEBSITE and many more.
There are also TLDs for Countries like .CA for Canada, .CN for China, .MX for Mexico, .RU for Russia, etc.
The .COM TLD has been out there so long people still pretty much expect it when manually typing in a web address.

HOST in HOST.DOMAIN.TLD is the subdomain.
It is typically a specific server, but can also be a directory on another server like HOST2.DOMAIN.TLD can point to HOST.DOMAIN.TLD/directory/

Technically you can have DOMAIN.TLD as a FQDN if it points to a specific IP address ie host. Most redirect to the web server at WWW.

MYFQDN.ORG to me would mean MYFQDN was a non-profit organization.

stomachmonkey, just a short question, what is a subdomain? In my world forums is (was until now) the subdomain.

Maybe you missed it...

Not quite.... foo.some.tld - the .tld can be a domain, and .some.tld is a subdomain of it - or a host in it. foo.some.tld can either be a host named foo in the domain some.tld - or it can be a sub domain.

Basically, in the DNS config, one specifies an A record for foo.some.tld. That record points at a particular IP address/host. BUT the same DNS server can also say "not only is there a host named foo.some.tld at 10.100.100.123 BUT they are also their own subdomain and have authority to create other hostnames/records in the name space .foo.some.tld"

In reality - there is only one domain - the . top level. Everything else (.com, .net, whatever) is host in that domain, a host in a subdomain of that domain, or a host that has rights to create other names/records... the top level . is always implied - but in a zone file, you'll see it used (ie, foo.some.tld. points to 10.100.100.123)

I sure did! Thanks RKDinOKC and id10t!

A (partial) URL - uniform resource locater or URI - uniform resource identifier Should contain a protocol/scheme as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Syntax

I think pcardude means the folder after the /
It is just a folder.

That would be the path part (it could be a file, but it isn't) of the URL/URI

Well it is a directory. Unless it had a file extension forums.html, forums.php etc...