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Definitions of fully qualified domain name:

The FQDN is the full name of a system, rather than just its hostname. For example, "venera" is a hostname and "venera.isi.edu" is an FQDN.
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In the Internet suite of protocols, the name of a host system that includes all of the subnames of the domain name. An example of a fully qualified domain name is mycomputer.city.company.com.
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A domain name ending with a dot (.).
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Host name_domain name, including all subdomains. For example, host1.subdomain-b.domain-a.com.
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