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Internet address n.
1. [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form foo@bar.baz, where foo is a user name, bar is a [sitename], and baz is a `domain' name, possibly including periods itself. Contrast with [bang path]; see also [the network] and [network address]. All Internet machines and most UUCP sites can now resolve these addresses, thanks to a large amount of behind-the-scenes magic and [PD] software written since 1980 or so. See also [bang path], [domainist]. 2. More loosely, any network address reachable through Internet; this includes [bang path] addresses and some internal corporate and government networks.
Reading Internet addresses is something of an art. Here are the four most important top-level functional Internet domains followed by a selection of geographical domains: