Dot-cc & Domain Names

A domain name is simply an address on the World Wide Web. Or, put another way, it's a unique alpha-numeric designation that helps locate a particular computer on the global information network.

Dot-cc works just like dot-com. Both are called top level domains, or TLDs in techspeak. Dot-com and dot-edu are examples of generic domains. Other examples are dot-net and dot-org. To allow room for growth, the designers of the Domain Name System also created country code domains assigned to particular places in the world. The "CC" in dot-cc refers to a tiny island chain in the Indian Ocean. Click here to learn more about that.