What is Domain Name and How to Choose a Domain Name

If you are planing to start an online business you will have to register a domain name. What is domain name? Domain name is a unique name of a web site. In order to be visible, every web site must have a domain name. Domain is the mask of an IP address. Every web site is held on web servers (web hosting) and can be accessible through IP address. Every domain name is pointed to an IP address of server where web site is hosted. 

Domain name contains 3 parts:

1. www. (world wide web)
2.name (you can chose it)
3.TLD (example .com or .net)

Domain names can be registered for one year minimum. Nobody can stole your domain if you register it.

Types of TLDs:

.com – commercial
.net – network
.org – television
.info – information
.me – Montenegro
.biz – business

…And there are many other local TLDs like .ca (Canada), .rs (republic of Serbia).

Allowed characters

- A domain name can not contain certain characters like:  ) ( / . ,
- Domain name can contain letters (a,b,c,s etc) and “-”

How domain names work?

Every time you type a domain name in the address bar of your internet browser this process is done:

- You send your local ISP task to find registrar of a domain that you have typed.
- ISP searches for registrar
- Register searches for a web host (place where website is located) (before that owner of a web site must define where to point domain name)

Where to register a domain name?

Almost every web hosting provider can register a domain name for you. Unlike web hosting domains are better when they are cheap. There is no difference between domain with 2.95$ / per year registration and 15$ / per year registration. So if you are looking for a domain names look for cheap ones, you can always point a domain name to a different web host.

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http://www.HostBite.us

Author: Damir Serbecic
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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