An important aspect of a computer network is the naming scheme of the hosts on the network.
Large networks often use a systematic naming scheme, such as using the department plus computer purpose to generate a name. For example, a web server for a marketing department may be called "marwww01".
However, smaller networks will frequently use a more personalized naming scheme to keep track of the many hosts. Popular naming schemes include trees, planets, rocks, etc.
Network naming can be hierarchical in nature, such as the Internet's DNS.
The choice of names may be limited by a length limitation (such as 15 character flat name space for NETBIOS), or may be limited by a character set limitation (such as hyphens not being allowed for SQL Server names).
Another somewhat serious and interesting emergence is a conceptual framework known as the Geosynchronous network