Website Evaluation

WEBSITE EVALUATION

EVALUATE THESE WEBSITES! Fake or Real?

SAFE: .gov (government)

Mostly Safe: .org (organizations)

Open to All: .com (commerical) .net (net) and all others

Two Letter Domains: Country (sometimes has a .co, too)

Spelling matters! Domain matters!

Mistake: arps.com ~ it's arps.org

REDIRECTS are ok:

'mylittlepony.com' to http://mylittlepony.hasbro.com/en-us

What is that stuff before and after the NAME and dot.something?

http:// (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

www (World Wide Web)

/en/ or /home or /home.html (Pages and Sub-pages)

WHO? Old Style Websites

Old Websites (Active too)

Gizmodo (23 old, active websites)

Fake Sites

http://www.philb.com/fakesites.htm

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