Domain Names – An Introduction

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In short, a domain name is a “facade”, this is a word (sequence of words), which is entered by users in address string of browsers to visit your site but which is not the real address of your site in the Network. Domain names are anchored to servers of Domain Name Systems (DNS) which are used for transferring of digital addresses (known as IP addresses or the Internet Protocol addresses) into words. Each site visited by you in the Network, except the name has also a digital IP address which is the real address of a site in the Internet.

Common domains of a top level

Usually domain names are classified on the extensions which are identifying codes of domain names. Three most popular sorts of Top-Level Domains (TLDs) are domains which are not anchored to any country:

.COM: It is an abbreviation form from .commercial. Domain names with .com extension far exceed with the popularity among other names and can be bought by any person or the company.

.NET: It is an abbreviation form from .network.

Originally this domain extension has been created for technical web sites. However, domains with the given extension can be registered by any interested person.

.ORG: It is an abbreviation form from .organization. Originally it intended for the noncommercial organizations and other organizations which are not using .com or .net extensions. Now the domain name with .org extension can be registered by any person or the company.

Domains of the countries

Domain names can be assigned with usage of extensions of the concrete countries. Each country has the own domain extension; Canada, for example, uses .ca extension, Japan has.jp, and Russia has .ru.

The majority of the countries has special rules where it is described in accuracy who can register domain names with usage of the given extension and for what purpose; therefore it is important to study a subject before something to do.

Alternative domain names

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the organization which is responsible for administration of domains of a highest level in scales of all globe, has approved recently some new extensions which are not assigned to any concrete country. Among them there are: .aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .mobi, .museum, .name, .pro.

Each extension has been created for usage in definite purposes and accompanied by certain limitations.

Other extensions of domains

In the course of search of a suitable domain name you can detect sites which suggest to use such extensions as .xxx, .free and .mp3. They are not true extensions and they are not approved by ICANN; more truly, their availability to the user is guaranteed by the software. As ICANN has not approved any of these extensions and, besides, users who have not an appropriate software can not get access to the sites with such names, so these extensions can be used only for some not primary goals.

Though extensions .com, .net and .org are known for everybody, they are not the only extensions which are available. All domains work as well as top-level domains.

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