Take [kahoot.it](https://kahoot.it) for example, .it is a country level domain, and there’s no .com or .gov. How does that work?
Also, websites without a .country ending is assumed to be in the US. So, if it’s possible for a website to not have a .com level domain and the assumption is .us, then is it possible for a website to “not have any domain?”
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There’s a company for managing the Internet called ICANN.
It gave a whole bunch of companies (usually owned by countries) the right to end an address with something called a “top level domain”. That is the .it stuff, With that, they can do pretty much whatever they want.
.it was given to some Italians.
You can talk to/pay them to get a web address. They don’t particularly care you’re not in Italy.
A lot of these things were meant to signify countries, but some countries wound up with an initial that just so happened to be related to another concept.
EG Tuvalu isn’t exactly an IT powerhouse, but their country top level domain is “.tv” so for some reason a lot of television companies started registering there.
.com is owned by Verisign in the USA. As much of the Internet grew out of US programs, they hold a lot of the more common stuff.
It’s not uncommon for the countries to have similar policies.
EG, if you asked the Italians for a yourwebsite.gov.it address they’d probably tell you to pick another address.
Anyway all of this gets fed into the computers that transform <whatever>.it into ip address computers use.
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