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Educate Yourself With
One Of The Internet Technology Terms : Domain Name
By: Taban Khajehnassiri

With this article I try to provide you with the information you may require to know about the term Domain Name

You just have to think about it and then use your imagination. You find yourself in the middle of nowhere, in a crowded city for instance and you do not know even a single soul in there around, but a friend, who's somewhere waiting for you. In order to meet your friend in that crowded city, you need to have a piece of paper in your pocket with some lines of an address on it, yes you need the address to find your way to that buddy's place. Then you have to move and do something, you can ask somebody to show you the path, or you can walk all the way, asking here and there where-to-go questions certainly to reach your destination. You can get a Taxi, showing that piece of paper to driver to take you there, you know it's getting late, and you do not want to wandering around all night long. On the Internet, to locate a person, an organization or an entity, you need a domain. A domain name is just like that piece of paper in your pocket carrying the address, on the Internet, it is that part of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) that tells a domain name server using the Domain Name System (DNS) where to forward your request for a web page or an element in that page, for instance a picture or a sound file or a movie clip etc.

For example, our domain name is www.webfaqt.com which locates an Internet address for webfaqt.com and at the Internet it points to a specified location on the net and a particular host server named "www" stands for the World Wide Web. Now we are a dot com entity on the net because we have a .com part. The "com" part of the domain name shows the purpose of our entity (or the organization, company) and here for instance it means "commercial" and is called the top-level domain. The "webfaqt" part of our domain name defines the name of our entity and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The most important point is here that the second-level domain names MUST be unique on the Internet and this must be registered with one of the accredited registrars for the COM, NET, and ORG top-level domains on the net for instance the NetworkSolutions Company. It is now clear that top-level domain name can be geographic, because I am sure you have seen for instance .ir part at the end of some URLs. At present, most non-U.S. domain names use a top-level domain name based on the country the server is in. If you have a credit card, go ahead, you can go to an accredited registrar on the net, first search for your second-level domain name and fill the required form(s), pay by your credit card and ask for your domain name to be registered. If you do not have that credit card, you have to ask online of offline entities like webfaqt.com to register it for you. After, your registration, you need a web server (and the space on it) connected to the Internet. The domain name is mapped to an IP address representing a physical point on the Internet. By the way, I think I have to explain one more thing here because it is important for you to know about it, when you have a web server, you can serve a number of entities (depending on the volume of space you have let's say lots of entities) web hosting services, the point is that more than one domain name can be mapped to the same Internet address and this allows multiple individuals, businesses, and organizations to have separate Internet identities while they are sharing the same Internet server. For a list of domain name registries around the world check out this web site and Dot Com Statistics of Network Solutions at http://www.nsol.com/statistics/ provides easy access to recent and past domain registration statistics. You may also check out NetFactual.Com at http://www.netfactual.com/ for the total reports of registered domain names.