The .com domain was originally intended for what?
AnswerCommercial organizations
'com' is short for commercial.
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URL facts & stats
7 fact-checked facts about URLs, web addresses and how the web finds pages, each with the reason behind it. 5 more are in today's round and join this page after it closes.
The basics
What does 'www' stand for?
AnswerWorld Wide Web
The www prefix names the web service of a domain.
Going deeper
Who invented the World Wide Web?
AnswerTim Berners-Lee
Berners-Lee proposed the web at CERN in 1989.
In a URL, the part after the '?' is called what?
AnswerThe query string
The query string passes parameters to the page.
What is the default port for plain HTTP?
Answer80
Web servers listen on port 80 for HTTP by default.
Expert level
What was the first .com domain ever registered, in 1985?
Answersymbolics.com
Symbolics, a computer maker, registered it on March 15, 1985.
In URL encoding, how is a space commonly written?
Answer%20
Percent-encoding uses the hex code 20 for a space.
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