Guessing Uniform Resource Locaters

Basic Principle #1: Think of the organization most likely to provide an answer to your question. Then try to go directly to their Web site.

Try guessing the central URL for the organization.

1. Leave off http://
2. Try the common www to start the machine address
3. Use the name, acronym, or brief name of the organization (nra, honda, uwyo) in the middle
4. Add the appropriate top level domain, most often .com. See a complete list of country codes or try one of the following common endings:

   com for commercial net for networks, but can be used by anyone edu for U.S. higher education org for other organizations, but can be used by anyone mil for U.S. military gov for U.S. federal government int for international organizations established by treaties .state.XX.us for U.S. state governments, but .us is now open for anyone A few newer (and less common) ones include : biz for businesses info is open for anyone name for personal pages museum for museums travel for the travel industry See complete list

Now let's try the

URL guessing can help in finding pages for URLs that no longer work and links that lead to dead ends. Try trimming off parts of the URL starting on the right-hand side and stopping at every /