Domain Names-What You Should Know
What is a Domain Name?
Practically speaking, your domain name (web address) is the core
of your Internet identity, your online brand. Your customers and
friends will remember this name and use it to find your website,
your products or your services. And since no two parties can
ever hold the same domain name (web address) simultaneously,
your Internet identity is totally unique.
Technically, a domain name is an addressing construct used for
identifying and locating computers on the Internet. While
computers use Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to locate each
other on the Internet, people find them hard to remember.
Therefore, domain names were developed to permit the use of
easily remembered words and phrases to identify Internet
addresses.
For example, the domain name rocketface.com represents the
Rocketface website. When you type rocketface.com into a web
browser or send e-mail to someone at rocketface.com, the Domain
Name System (DNS) translates rocketface.com into the IP numbers
used by the Internet and connects you to Rocketface