What do you mean by Domain Name?

October 27th, 2010 | Posted by admin in Uncategorized

Each day hundred and millions of websites pop up on the World Wide Web. It becomes difficult for the search engines to keep track of every website, hence domain names were introduced.

Every website has its own individual space on the World Wide Web, which is nothing but a virtual directory. These directories have a particular address known as the IP address. A sequence of 12 digits forms an IP address. Since it would be difficult to remember the IP address of every site, Domain Name System was introduced. A series of alphabets allocated to each IP address which is further assigned to a web server forms the domain name, also known as the URL.

Domain name consists of two parts called the name and the extension. The name usually describes the website and its purpose, where as extensions are .com, .org or .gov. Most commonly used extension is .com and next comes .net. Extensions like .edu, .gov or .org are for specific organizations only, For example, educational institutions use .edu, government institutions use .gov and .org is used by registered organizations.

Now that you have understood what a domain name is, let us look into how to select a perfect domain name for our business. Always try to incorporate keywords into your domain name. Search engines like keyword rich domain names. And preferably use .com extension as that is the most common and people are used to it. Most important your domain name should give a brief about you or your business. The moment you read it, people should be able to understand what you or your business deals with. It should be easy to remember and should increase the page rank.