What does com mean at the end of websites?

Answer 1

"com" is a top-level domain. It stands for "commercial" because this is the kind of content expected under the TLD. However, it was one of the first TLDs, so it became so common that it is now used for many different purposes.
From a technical standpoint, the TDL directs your browser's request (to answers.com, for example) to the .com domain registry. That registry then looks for the domain name ("answers") and provides an IP address for the browser to access.

Answer 2

com: community

gov: government

net: network

edu: education

Answer 2

.com = Commercial. This was originally supposed to be for multinational commercial companies. But as registration was done first-come first-served. There are many local companies with a ".com" URL.

.org = Organisation. Usually non profit making organisations. Like .com, this was originally supposed to be for multinational commercial companies, but many single-country organisations use .org.

.gov = US government.

.edu = education. New registrations are restricted to educational institutions in the US, though there are some non-US educational institutions which registered a .edu URL before this restrictiona came in.

Three letter codes are supposed to be international. Two letter codes are countries, so it should be .gov.us and .edu.us, same as it is .gov.uk and .edu.uk, but I don't know if this anomaly will ever be fixed.

Answer 3

"com" is a top-level domain. It stands for "commercial" because this is the kind of content expected under the TLD. However, it was one of the first TLDs, so it became so common that it is now used for many different purposes.
From a technical standpoint, the TDL directs your browser's request (to answers.com, for example) to the .com domain registry. That registry then looks for the domain name ("answers") and provides an IP address for the browser to access.

Answer 4

It originally meant the website belonged to a commercial. Today it doesn't mean much, since there are no checks, as to who the websites are actually given to.