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	TRAVEL TO AMSTERDAM So much more than Wooden shoes, coffee shops and the Red Light District! Amsterdam, world-renowned for its romantic canals and the imposing architecture of the 17th century, a period often referred to as the "Golden Century". Amsterdam is the sparkling heart of Holland and will definitely get your blood pumping. Amsterdam is the capital and the largest city of The Netherlands. Its name is derived from Amstel Dam, pointing to the city's origin: a dam on the river Amstel. Amsterdam is a party town 365 days a year, with a harmonious co-existence of the historical and the modern, in a melting pot of nationalities that have only further contributed to the city's charms. Moreover, Amsterdam is a six-point Gamma Global City. The city is comprised of over 800,000 inhabitants, and of over 180 nationalities. For more travel suggestions, please visit www.toptenvacationspots.net. INTERNET ADDRESSING URL URL means, "Uniform Resource Locator", by definition is a pointer to a websites resource and is needed to differentiate websites. It is a string of characters that locates a specific piece of information anywhere on the web. (for example: http://www.wikipedia.org is the URL to Wikipedia) This shows an HTTP Protocol. An URL can also be broken down into parts. *You could add a path component that specifically references the host computer. *You can add a portthat shows where the TCP connection is made on the remote host machine. *You could add a fragment(AKA: reference) that could specify a specific section you are looking for. domains A domain is a location on the internet. It's a particular web server and is the middle part of the address. The domain name tells the location and the type of address. Components of domain names are separated by periods or dots. The three letter extension at the end describes type of domain such Google (www.Google.com), or Government (www.gov.ca) etc. the "Google" and "gov" are the domains. top level Top level domain is the end of a domain. So this is the end of an address. For example .com .org .net. Some top level domain names also include a two letter code extension for the country for ex: .us .mx .uk .ca email Email addresses are a type of electronic mailboxes used to send and receive messages, all addresses follow the same format which is : username@domain (i.e. jdoe@gmail.com). The major difference between addresses and URL's are the absence of the "@" symbol.