What is Domain Name & their Different Types

A domain name is the text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet. Each domain name has a unique IP address. The "address" or URL of a particular Web site. This is also how you describe the name that is at the right of the @ sign in an Internet address.

There is an organization called InterNIC that registers domain names for a small fee and keeps people from registering the same name. A domain name is a unique name, which used to be up to fifteen characters in length, but can now be up to sixty-seven characters. A domain name must be different than all other domain names, workgroup names, and computer names on the network. Internet users access your website using your domain name, download the process of copying files, information, images and anything which they want from the Internet to your computer.

Once you choose the right domain name for your use, the next step to choose the domain extension. The top domain extentions are following :

• .com (For Commerecial)
• .net (For Network)
• .biz (For Business)
• .org (For Organisational)
• .edu (For Education)
• .info (For Informational)