Domain

Places

• The Domain, a shopping mall in Austin, Texas, USA
• in several Commonwealth countries, the name for parkland made available for public use by the monarch or their representative, the Governor. Examples include:
  • The Domain, Sydney: a large open space near the central business district of Sydney, Australia
  • Kings Domain, Melbourne: in Victoria, Australia
  • Queens Domain, Hobart: in Tasmania, Australia
  • Auckland Domain: a large inner-city park in Auckland, New Zealand containing an ancient volcano and the War Memorial Museum
  • Throughout New Zealand a Town Domain is typically a public sport area administered by a Domain Board.
• The Domain Tunnel, Melbourne: a tunnel that runs underneath the Yarra River and the Kings Domain in Victoria, Australia

Information technology

In information technology, the term domain can refer to:

• Domain name, Internet domain name (most frequently ending on .com)
• a Windows Server domain, a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system
• a broadcast domain in computer networking
• an application domain - the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system
• a software engineering domain - a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field. See also domain-specific programming languages.
• a CLR application domain, a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)
• In Database Theory, a data domain is a set of all permitted values.
• a workstation operating system called Domain/OS.
• a group of computers on a network that share a common directory or storage locations.