A Fully Qualified Domain Name is a domain name that specifies its exact location in the hierarchy of the Domain Name System.
A Fully Qualified Domain Name is a domain-name that specifies its exact location in the hierarchy of the Domain Name System dns.
A FQDN consists of zero or more subdomains followed by a top-level domain (e.g com
, org
, net
etc.), separated by periods and terminated by a final period which represents the root zone.
Example: meta.stackoverflow.com.
As a special case, a single period .
represents the root of the directory tree.
See also: RFC 1035: DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION