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E-mail addresses function similar to postal addresses. It's easy to imagine a street address within a city, within a state, or within a country but it's more complicated to imagine an address somewhere out there in cyberspace. E-mail addresses can seem foreign with their strange "@" symbols and cryptic words separated by periods. However, you'll see that E-mail addresses are very logical . The following E-mail address is read joe "at" acme "dot" com.

joe@acme.com

joe is the user name and it identifies a directory on the server where Joe's mail is stored.
acme is the domain name which identifies the server where your mail is stored. This is often a company name. . com is the top-level domain, also called the zone. Internationally, top level domains are usually two letters identifying the country, for instance, fr = france.

In the United States most top level domains are identified by three letters. You can tell what kind of organization you're dealing with by looking at the top-level domain.
edu = educational institutions
com = commercial
gov = government
net = networking organizations
mil = military institutions
org = organizations that don't fit any of the other categories.

Internationally, top level domains are usually two letters identifying the country...
fr = France
au = Australia
ca = Canada
jp = Japan
uk = England (United Kingdom)
de = Germany

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E-mail addresses function similar to postal addresses. It's easy to imagine a street address within a city, within a state, or within a country but it's more complicated to imagine an address somewhere out there in cyberspace. E-mail addresses can seem foreign with their strange "@" symbols and cryptic words separated by periods. However, you'll see that E-mail addresses are very logical . The following E-mail address is read joe "at" acme "dot" com. joe@acme.com
joe is the user name and it identifies a directory on the server where Joe's mail is stored.	acme is the domain name which identifies the server where your mail is stored. This is often a company name.	. com is the top-level domain, also called the zone. Internationally, top level domains are usually two letters identifying the country, for instance, fr = france.

In the United States most top level domains are identified by three letters. You can tell what kind of organization you're dealing with by looking at the top-level domain. edu = educational institutions com = commercial gov = government net = networking organizations mil = military institutions org = organizations that don't fit any of the other categories. Internationally, top level domains are usually two letters identifying the country... fr = France au = Australia ca = Canada jp = Japan uk = England (United Kingdom) de = Germany