Domain Name Definition
Domain
Name is a technical term for the address of a website online, the
domain name tells your browser like Firefox, Microsoft where to look to
access the pages you want to see.
The domain name for this website, for
example, our domain name is “DomainNameA.com” and you arrived at this
page from clicking through a link from a search engine like Google,
yahoo, or by typing the exact address into the address bar of your
browser. The domain name is a textual representation of numerical
number which is recognized by the domain name servers.
A
domain name consists of a top-level and a second-level domain. A
top-level domain (TLD) is the part of the domain name located to the
right of the dot (domainnamea.com).
The most common Top-level domains Extensions
are
Some other popular top-level domains Extension are
The part of the domain name located to the left of
the dot — "domainnamea," in this case — is called the second-level
domain (SLD) name. The second-level domain name is the "readable" part
of the address and refers to the organization or entity behind the
Internet address. Second-level domain names must be registered with an (
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and NumbersICANN)-accredited
registrar.
The
Domain Names are organized in subordinate levels. The first-level set
of domain names are the Top Level Domains (TLDs), including such as the
prominent domains com ,net and org.
Below
these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and
third-level domain names that are typically open for reservation by
end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run
web sites.
