Talk:domain

Do network addresses have anything to do with anything?
I don't know much about what goes on in Microsoft land, or Netware land, and what they're calling a domain these days, but it seems unlikely that this definition:


 * a group of computers that share a common network address.

is correct in one of these senses. It is most certainly not correct when it comes to DNS, or IP.

I suspect the definition from foldoc is what was intended.


 * A group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix, the "domain name"

--kop 02:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

If my suspicition above is correct then the definition can be removed.

I do guess that Netware and Microsoft have other senses of the word domain and that these might need to be added. --kop 05:06, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I've gone ahead and removed the defintion. It's above for the record and there was enough odd stuff surrounding DNS related definitions that I figure it's more of the same.  --kop 06:26, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Microsoft sense
I've tried to capture the Microsoft sense of the word in this definition:


 * the collection of computers identified by a domain's domain names

This may or may not be right and there may be other Microsoft senses of the word as well. I suspect so. --kop 08:37, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2013–July 2014
Rfv-sense - form of metadata. I've not come across this sense, and can't see it in any other dictionary. SemperBlotto (talk) 19:43, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * It's definitely a thing. I've added some citations to the citations page. Universal Meta Data Models explains the structure.
 * Passed. — Ungoliant (falai) 00:07, 6 July 2014 (UTC)