Domain Names – Why You Need One To Own Your Own Website
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You could be forgiven for not knowing what domain names are.You use them every day, but it’s a technical term, and not one that you really need to do unless you plan to get one of your very own. Put simply, domain names are website addresses, although in reality it’s a little more complicated than that.
You see, a website address is made of more than just the domain name. First there’s the http:// (which means we’re using hypertext, the web), then the www (which means you’re using the web part of the site you’re on, not email or anything else). It’s the part just after that, including .com, .net and many other TLDs (top-level domains), that makes up the domain name.
So what does this mean? Well, google.com is a domain name. So is ebay.com. On the other hand, news.google.com (that’s Google news), isn’t a domain name – it’s a sub-domain, part of google.com. In the same way, google.com/about isn’t a domain name either – it’s just a section of Google’s website.
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