What is a Domain Name? Where should you buy?

[hynds]

What is a Domain Name? Where should you buy?

What is a Domain Name? Domain Name (DN) is one of the most important factors in your website. For easy to understand, it’s the web address of your website. If someone wants to visit your website, they must know and remember your website address name, instead of the group of number IP address. It works like your home address, it need to be easy to remember and easy to find.

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What is a Domain Name?

Normally, each domain name contains 3 parts and has the structure like below

www.*******.io

In among of that

www: the prefix of the domain, this is an option, you can visit *******.io without www.
*******: the domain name
io: the suffix of the domain, it’s also called domain extension

Totally, domain names are hierarchy into 3 levels

• Domain level 1 (also called Top Level Domain – TLD): such as godaddy.com, google.com,…
• Domain level 2 (secondary level domain): such as google.com.sg,…
• Sub domain: they’re from domain level 1 or level 2, such as drive.google.com, mail.google.com,…

Some of popular domain extensions you should to know

.COM - Commercial: Currently, this is the most popular extension, it’s chosen by almost companies and businesses,…
.NET - Network: The second most popular extension now, it’s also used by companies, internet services providers or organizations that related to internet fields
.BIZ - Business: It’s used for small business websites, small eCommerce businesses,…
.GOV - Government: It’s used for companies, organizations that own by government
.ORG - Organization: It’s usually used for non-profit organizations or eCommerce companies/organizations,…
.EDU - Education: People use this extension for schools, universities, or education organizations,…
.INFO - Information: People use this extension for websites that sharing information or resources about many fields,…
.TV - Television: People use this extension for websites about television streaming, videos sharing,…
.MOBI - Mobile: People use this extension for mobile websites or mobile apps…

Some Domain name’s characteristics you should to know

• Your domain will be activated instantly after you bough successful and provided full information
• You can not buy a domain name that has already existed, you just only buy when it was deleted from registrar.
• Your domain names’ length and content does not affect to website load.
• Your domain should have maximize 63 characters (include the extension .com, .net, .edu, .gov,…)
• You can buy domain names as many as possible, no limited.
• Your domain must only contains characters in alphabet (a-z), numeric (0-9), and hyphens (-). All spaces and other special characters are invalid
• Your domain must not begin or end with hyphens (-)

How to choose a best domain name?

The best domain is the right one that bring effectiveness to your business. So you should research very carefully and deeply about the market, the business in order to choose the best one for you. Normally, people are tending to remember domains that are short, memorable and easy to spell.If your website is in specific markets, you should also choose the domain related to your brand or products. You can choose the name base on the keyword people tend to search or products that people are usually easy to remember and pronounce. In the future, the domain keyword also helps you to improve quickly in SEO strategies.

Where to buy domain name?

There are tons of domain providers (domain name registrars) in the world nowadays. If you’re in choosing process and don’t know which to choice, so should consider these factors below

• Truth and high reputation domain name registrars
• Always have the cheap price for people
• Available to support and contact if needed (24/7)
• The annual renewal price
• The transfer policies and support team

Source: What is a Domain Name? Where should you buy?

[matton]

Why did you post that, I guess everybody knows about what is domain?

[andrewskyler]

He advertise for his service, sure

[Sreesri]

Domain names are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain.

[hynds]

Why did you post that, I guess everybody knows about what is domain?

Did you try to read the full article before posting this question? Not everybody know about domain, and I'm explaining about what is it.

"Domain Name (DN) is one of the most important factors in your website. For easy to understand, it’s the web address of your website. If someone wants to visit your website, they must know and remember your website address name, instead of the group of number IP address. It works like your home address, it need to be easy to remember and easy to find."

[Haniska]

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System and domain we can buy from godaddy.

[hynds]

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System and domain we can buy from godaddy.

Thank you, the definition is already on the article.

[benedictadcosta46]

Getting a domain name involves registering the name you want with an organisation called ICANN through a domain name registrar. For example, if you choose a name like "example.com", you will have to go to a registrar, pay a registration fee that costs around US$10 to US$35 for that name.

[hynds]

Getting a domain name involves registering the name you want with an organisation called ICANN through a domain name registrar. For example, if you choose a name like "example.com", you will have to go to a registrar, pay a registration fee that costs around US$10 to US$35 for that name.

Correct, the price of domain depends on its extension, there are many extensions are sold with very cheap price $0.99 each.

[nnik]

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[juliajohn]

Go for go daddy