What is Domain Name



It is the text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer online Internet.  Internet users access your website using your domain name.  It is a way to identify and locate computers connected to the Internet. It must be unique. Domain name always have two or more parts, separated by periods (dots).

e.g.

       google. com , yahoo. com etc

Domain Abbreviation

Domain organised by the type of organisation and by the country. A three letter abbreviation indicating the organisation and usually two letter abbreviation indicating the country name. Most common domain abbreviations for organisation are as follow:


      info       Informational organisation

      com       Commercial 

      gov        Government 

      edu        Education 

      mil         Military 

      net         Network resources 

      org         Usually non-profit organisation 

     

Some domain abbreviation for country are as follows:

      in          India

      au         Australia 

      fr          France

      nz         New Zealand 

      uk         United Kingdom 


Domain Name System (DNS)

It translate domain names (computer host names) into IP addresses.  It also stores and associates many types of information with domain names.  It provide worldwide keyboard redirection service.

DNS can be quickly updated and specifies the technical functionality of database server.  The naming scheme by which services are identified is known as the domain name system e.g. the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.


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