What is a Domain?
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009A domain name is a name that points to a particular location or server on the web. (See what is a URL). A domain consists of the domain name plus a TLD, which is the part you see at the end of a domain name, the most popular being .com .net and .org.
The Web understands a domain name as pointing to a particular IP address on the web. The IP address points to a particular server on the web. The domain name is just a way of easily going to that particular site without having to type in or remember some long IP Address.
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