- Domain Name
- A unique name that identifies an Internet site such as mybusiness.com.
See: Web Address
- E-Commerce
- The process of selling products or services via the Internet (e.g. eBay).
- IP Address
- IP is short for Internet Protocol. An IP address is a unique numerical address
assigned to every machine connected to the Internet. This is a unique string of
numbers identifies a computer or server on the Internet. These numbers are normally
shown in groups separated by periods. Example: 216.239.51.100 is Google's IP address.
- Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3)
- A standard protocol for receiving e-mail.
- Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
- A protocol used to transfer electronic mail between computers across the Internet.
- Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
- A string of characters used to represent and identify a page of information
on the World Wide Web that is used by an web browser such as Netscape or
Internet Explorer to find resources on the Internet (e.g. http:\\www.simplyonthent.com)
- Web Address
- A unique string of letters or characters that identify your specific place
on the internet such as www.mybusiness.com. See: Domain Name
- Web Hosting
- The business of providing the storage, connectivity, and services necessary
to serve files for a website
- Web Page
- Individual files or pages of a website. A collection of individual web pages
comprise a website.
- Web Site
- A collection of interconnected files that are stored at a specific location
and address on the Internet that can be retrieved using a web browser.
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