ABSTRACT
When it comes to ascertaining the reliability of information, one particularly useful Web resource is the InterNIC site. Like postal addresses which specify name, street, county and country, Web addresses, known as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), contain several elements of direction, each of which is separated by a full stop or dot. The URL may include a national reference (for example .uk), or a generic domainname to indicate the type of organisation – .com for a company, .org for a non-profit organisation, .net for a network, .edu for an educational establishment, .gov for a government organisation and .mil for the military. Prefixing the generic domain may be a corporate or an individual’s name and prior to that will be something to identify the specific computer on which the site is hosted. Thus, for example, www.routledge.com identifies a computer known as www within Routledge which is a company.
