The name of a computer on the Internet The hostname represents the IP address for the computer
The name assigned to a particular computer When combined with the domain name, this forms the fully qualified domain name (which itself is often referred to as the domain name)
the portion of a computers Internet domain name that comes before the first period; an unqualified hostname
The unique name by which a computer is known on a network, used to identify it when sending and receiving e-mail, Usenet news, or other forms of electronic information interchange such as Web hosting
The name used to identify a particular instance of machine, and used to distinguish it from all other hosts in the world Usually maps to one or more Internet addresses, and a host may have additional hostnames
(Or "sitename") The unique name by which a computer is known on a network, used to identify it in electronic mail, Usenet news, or other forms of electronic information interchange On the Internet the hostname is an ASCII string, e g "foldoc doc ic ac uk" which, consists of a local part (foldoc) and a domain name (doc ic ac uk)
The network name of a computer Every Website address is also a hostname, for example the hostname www cwru edu refers to a computer named www on the cwru edu network (The edu stands for Educational) You can set the Hostname when you first register your network card, otherwise there is a webpage where you can change the hostname for computers registered to you
The unique name that identifies a computer on a network On the Internet, the host name is in the form "comp xyz net"; if there is only one Internet site the host name is the same as the domain name One computer can have more than one host name if it hosts more than one Internet site, however (for example, "home xyz net" and "comp xyz net"); in that case "comp" and "home" are host names and "xyz net" is the domain name
The unique name by which a computer is known on a network, used to identify it in electronic mail, Usenet news, or other forms of electronic information interchange On Internet the hostname is an ASCII string, e g "wombat doc ic ac uk" which, consists of a local part (wombat) and a domain name (doc ic ac uk) The hostname is translated into an Internet address either via the /etc/hosts file, NIS or by the Domain Name System (DNS) or resolver It is possible for one computer to have several hostnames (aliases) though one is designated as its canonical name HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web It is a non-proprietary format, based upon SGML and can be created and processed in a wide range of tools from simple plain text editors to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools HTML uses tags like and to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists, hypertext links and more
A hostname is a human-readable string of characters used to identify a particular computer system
the name of a computer on the Internet It's the fun part for the system administrator The best host names are catchy, clever and memorable, like flipcity