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Instructor: So, the first part of the URL

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is naturally the domain name.

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The domain name should be either FQDN,

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which is Fully Qualified Domain Name,

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or a server name.

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For example, in this URL taken from the eBay api,

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you can see the FQDN, the Fully Qualified Domain Name.

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In this case, it is api.ebay.com.

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Now, what's important to note about a domain name is

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that a protocol used should be HTTPS.

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Using HTTP is outdated and unsecured,

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and you should avoid it.

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If you are using FQDN, Fully Qualified Domain Name,

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then it should have an api in its name, like this.

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So, you see here the protocol, which is HTTPS,

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and the word api.

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And then the other part of the domain name,

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in this case myapp.com.

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So, when including the api word in the domain name,

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then the developer will be able to understand that

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this domain is the correct place to go

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when working with the api.

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Okay, so let's start building a URL

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which will be a best practice demonstrator using Beeceptor.

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And if you will look at the URL in Beeceptor,

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which is right here,

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then you can see that using Beeceptor we have

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a fully qualified domain name.

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Although, we don't have full control of it,

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so we don't have the word api in it.

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My specific sub domain is called apicourse,

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but again, you probably selected a different one.

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So, we will start building the URL from this domain name.

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And let's move on to the next lecture

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to understand what comes right after the domain name.