What is a domain name ?

[Zahidmunir]

When you ask a person to come over to your place, then you give them an idea about the path that they have to follow. The most important thing that you ensure is that you tell them about a landmark that falls in your locality. The purpose of this is to let that person identify your place easily. This is exactly the case with websites. A domain name is that identifier that people can easily identify and reach up to your website. For example, Yahoo as a website has got yahoo.com as a domain name. Now, what it does is that it makes your presence felt on the web world in a better way. Businesses get a good amount of web traffic because of these user friendly names that are easy to remember. A domain name can be registered through a domain host. Vishalhost.com is an affordable option for doing the registration. For additional information, you can read the post.

[sandeep552]

Domain name is name of your web site also called URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

[paydayloan]

Somewhat like international phone numbers, the domain name system helps to give every Internet server a memorable and easy-to-spell address.

[Mal Tindle]

The Domain name has already been explained in the previous comments but if you are thinking of buying a Domain name, you then have to register it for a period time and this can be done easily as there are many registrars out there.

After this you have to find a host for your site, they keep your site active on the Internet and enable you to post articles or change the look of your site and your host will maintain your changes. Hostgator and Bluehost are both very good but again there are several hosts out there.

It sounds a lot but after you have carried out these three tasks then you don't have to do anything until your domain name, registration or hosting runs out and it's up to you how long you pay for,

regards,

Mal.

[ilhtdubai]

Domain Name System, or DNS, is the most recognized system for assigning addresses to Internet web servers (aka "Internet hosts"). Somewhat like international phone numbers, the domain name system helps to give every Internet server a memorable and easy-to-spell address. Simultaneously, the domain names keep the really technical IP address invisible for most viewers..

[miajohnson]

Domain name is a address of your website, also known as IP address, URL(Uniform Resource Locator).

[aarlene]

A domain name is a name for a numeric web address! People can't remember complicated numeric sequences used by the computers. So, to make it easier for the people domain name system was introduced!! Its better to have a short, keyword rich and easy to remember domain names! I usually register my domain name at whoisxy.com .Here you can always select from a large inventory of premium names!

[madhuriarora]

Domain name like WWW.Google.com is a domain name of the site every domain name has a IP address that work on server site.

[goodluck]

Domain name is the name of the website. We can't able to remember ip address of each and every website. So, domain name is used to refer websites. it is simple to remember than ip address. example : google.com

[eridesktop]

i think domain names is like name and ip's like our identity number. its hard to call your friend with their identity number, so we call them with their name. its easier. thats domain for

[bullockc83]

You can say that Internet is one virtual world and if you want to enter into this world you need to same name and that name will be you domain name

[ddcireland11]

Last post is really very good.......just want to add one line that post is that in real world two people have same name but in the internet world you name much be unique so your domain should be unique....2 people can not use same name

[gilkesletitia]

Domain name has already been explained in previous posts. You just need to take care few thing before taking domain name
1) It should be related to you business
2) Name should be small and easy to read

[htddxb]

Is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative control on the internet.

[imogenegibson14]

domain name is specif address your website.

[faiha]

domain name , url, website address, website name all are equal to same

[sandeep8851]

Identification of www and web world. In Web world a address of proper information is ...........

[Tanvilog]

DNS (Domain Name System) represents a powerful Internet technology for converting domain names to IP addresses. Its special mission is to be a mediator between the IP addresses, the system-side names of the websites and their respective domains, and their user-side alpha-numeric titles.

[partho]

A domain name is a way to identify and locate computers and resources connected to the Internet.Its also called URL Each domain name corresponds to numeric IP (Internet Protocol) addresses

[anderson123]

Domain name is specif address of website.