Domain names, which are used to find and access websites or web based servers are available in different suffixes or domain name extensions.
There are different types of domain names available with the most popular domain name extension being .com and other options including .info, .co.uk, .org and many more.
Domain Name Types
TLD: Top Level Domain
Top Level Domains or TLD's are general domain extensions that are listed at the highest level in the domain name system with hundreds of TLD's available. The most popular extensions are .com, .net and .org with others which are not widely used such as .info, .biz or .food
ccTLD: Country Code Top Level Domain
Normally used by website owners who are advertising to users in a specific country, Country Code Top Level Domains are domain name extensions which are specific to a country and include a country code extension such as .uk for the United Kingdom or .fr for France.
sTLD: Sponsored Top Level Domain
Sponsored Top Level Domain's are a category of TLD's that has an entity sponsoring a specific sector of the economy or group which is represented by the domain name extension.
Examples of a sTLD include .gov for Government websites, .edu for education or .coop for cooperative organisations