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FQDN

Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:43 pm

A fully qualified domain name consists of a host and domain name, including top-level domain. For example, webopediastg.wpengine.com is a fully qualified domain name. www is the host, webopedia is the second-level domain, and.com is the top level domain.

A FQDN always starts with a host name and continues all the way up to the top-level domain name, so www.parc.xerox.com is also a FQDN.

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