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Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) explained

Posted on November 22, 2019November 22, 2019by Mitchell Cornish

A Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is a domain name that specifies the exact location of a host within the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS). In this scenario, ‘qualified’ means ‘specified’ since the full location of the domain within the DNS tree of hierarchy is specified in the name. If the name isn’t fully […]