Uses and abuses of domain names
The attractiveness of the domain name usage, especially to marketers, resulted in deviation from the manner in which they were initially intended to be used. They were actually created for the technical audience for which they were originally intended. In time, the domain names began being used in a way that deviated from their very design. They were originally planned to follow a structural hierarchy in which the TLD indicated or represented the type of organization. These were categorized as commercial or governmental or others.
The addresses would be brought down to third, fourth or further levels. This was intentionally done to express complex structures. In this way, the company branches and departments and even subsidiaries of a parent organization flaunted sub domain web addresses. The host names were actually designed to correspond with actual physical machines on the network. This communication was generally with one name per machine only.