You can begin to analyze a Website by looking at the URL.
Take the following address:
https://nhpbs.org/kn
The first part of an address identifies the type of site you are accessing.
- http – Website
- gopher – gopher site
- FTP – a FTP site
- Telnet –Telnet site
- news – a newsgroup
The next part of the address identifies the domain name, in this case it is
nhptv, the domain name for New Hampshire PBS. The
org is the domain extension. The domain extension identifies the type of organization providing the information or the country of origin.
