The Internet has changed our lifestyle, and even our lives, in so many ways. We use the Internet to communicate, entertain, shop, work and even to find love. Our vocabularies are now peppered with new words and phrases that didn’t even exist a decade ago. ‘Domain Name’ is one phrase of particular value to webmasters and Internet users alike.
Domain names are distinct titles that recognize unique sites on the web. All domain names become a portion of the URL, or website address. There are generally three main components to domain names, each separated by a dot.
To fully explain the nature and use of domain names, it’s best to use a concrete example. One of the most common and widely identified domain names on the web today is http://www.google.com. Virtually every Internet user is familiar with Google. As in all domain names, the first section is “www”, which stands for World Wide Web, the host server where the site is found. The second part, ‘google’, identifies the organization or company name. The third and final component, ‘.com’, mirrors the type of organization. Web addresses that end in...