Why is it that .com is such a widely used suffix to websites, what does it stand for and why does it matter what the suffixes are when the DNS server converts the websites to their respective IP addresses anyways?
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As an added note, it’s really important to learn to read a URL to avoid fake sites.
It’s all about the slashes.
For example: [https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/blahblahblah](https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/blahblahblah)
The domain, what is going to actually translate into an actual IP address, is between // and the first single /. In this case, “[www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com)”. The stuff after the first single / is used to find what you want on the site, in the old days it was an actual directory structure but now it can be lots of stuff.
Back to the URL. Look at this one: [https://www.reddit.1322.ru/r/politics/blahblahblah](https://www.reddit.1322.ru/r/politics/blahblahblah). It kind of looks like reddit at first glance once again, look between the // and the first / and you see [www.reddit.1322.ru](https://www.reddit.1322.ru/r/politics/blahblahblah) instead of [www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com) (.ru is Russia). When you get there, it might even look like reddit but it isn’t.
Just thought I’d add this for anyone who cares.
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