What is a Domain Name and What You Need to Know In 2023.
Every website on the Internet has a name and an address, just as every person in the world has a name and an address. The text that a user types into a browser window to access a certain website is known as a domain name. For example, Facebook’s domain name is ‘facebook.com.’
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When you type a domain name into a web browser, the browser consults a domain name server to determine the location of the matching website on the internet, allowing it to retrieve and display the website to you.
It’s similar to searching someone’s house in a street to figure out how to contact them or obtain directions to their home.
The actual address of a website is a complex numeric IP address. for example 132.546.23.965.
It’s difficult to memorize an IP address like this. Consider what it would be like if you had to use such numbers to access your favorite websites.
Domain names were created to address this issue.
You no longer need to input a long string of numbers in order to view a website. Instead, type an easy-to-remember domain name into your browser’s address bar to access it. Sutharsolutions.com is a good illustration of this.
A website can be accessed directly by entering its URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address in web browsers (such as Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc) address bar or by searching on a search engine such as Google or Bing.
Registering a domain name is the first step in establishing an online presence. A domain name can be purchased by going to a domain host or registrar like Namecheap, Hostinger, BigRock, or Google Domains, picking a name that no one else is taking, and paying an annual fee to buy and register it.
Some examples of domain:
| Government agency websites | .gov |
| commercial websites | .com |
| Websites of Educational Institutions | .edu |
| Websites of Nonprofit Organizations | .org |
| Informational website | .info |
| Country – specific domain | .de, .co.uk, .fr, .in, .au, .ru, .uk, |
| Tech website | .tech |
TLD stands for
TLD stands for top-level domain and is the last part of a domain name. It is also known as a domain suffix.
Suthar Solutions’ TLD is “.com,” for example, while visiting sutharsolutions.com. The original top-level domains (TLDs) are .com, .gov, .org, .net, and .edu.
SLD stands for
SLD stands for second-level domain. The domain that is directly below the TLD is referred to as an SLD or second-level domain. “sutharsolutions” is the second-level domain of the “.com” domain in the case of “sutharsolutions.com.”
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