You can begin to analyze a web site by looking at the URL.
Take the following address:
http://www.nhptv.org/kn
The first part of an address identifies the type of site you are accessing.
- http – Web Site
- gopher – gopher site
- FTP – a FTP site
- Telnet –Telnet site
- news – a newsgroup
The next part of the address identifies the domain name, in this case it is
nhptv, the domain name for New Hampshire Public Television. The
org is the domain extension. The domain extension identifies the type of organization providing the information or the country of origin.
