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Domain Names Demystified

Posted: Jan 18, 2012 |Comments: 0

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Whether they know it or not, all users of the internet, for whatever purpose, have typed in a domain name. A domain name is the familiar www.thisisawebsite.com that internet users type into their browsers to access a particular web-site. Nowadays domain names are a common sight in off-line advertising, whether the advertising is in newspapers, magazines, on radio, television, or on the sides of busses. Domain names are also known as URLs but for the purposes of this article we will refer to these features as “domain names”.

Domain names are always written in lower case letters, starting with “www”, although some links to a web-site page appearing on the same web-site, another web-site, at the end of an article, or within a blog, may require “http://” in front of the “www”. The main part of the domain name is always written with no spaces, although dashes (-) or underscores (_) are sometimes used to separate words. Every home page domain name then ends with, usually, a 3 letter suffix, as explained more fully in the next paragraph. The 3 main parts of every domain name are separated by periods (.), which are always referred to as “dots”.   

Every internet web-site has a page that ends simply with a dot (.) followed by, usually, a 3 letter combination of letters. By far the most popular combination is “.com”, but “.net”, “.org”, “.edu”, “.biz”, “.gov”, and “.info” are also fairly common, depending on the type of enterprise the web-site belongs to. “.net” and “.info” are frequently used when the owner of an enterprise is very keen on a particular main name for his web-site, but the “.com” version has already been taken by somebody else. Obviously, although the internet now consists of billions of web-sites, all domain names must be unique. There are also new suffixes that are occasionally added. “.xxx” is a fairly recent example of this in an effort to more easily distinguish web-sites of a pornographic nature.

Every web-site has a page name ending simply in “.com”, or “.net” etc. This page is known as the web-site’s home page. However, if the site has multiple pages, then each page must have its own unique name as well. This is achieved by adding a forward-slash (/) after the “.com” (or .net’ etc) and adding a page name. Again, like the main part of the domain name, the page name must be written with no spaces, although dashes (-) or underscores (_) are sometimes used to separate words. Either in links or when typing a web-site address directly into a browser, the site’s home page can be bypassed by adding the forward-slash and the page name, if it is known, to the domain name. Normally though, a user will not know the name of a particular page so he or she will have to navigate, using the site’s menu structure to a particular page. However page names are often added to links, where the web-site designer wants the user to be directed straight to a particular page. Occasionally the whole name is ended with “.html”, but except, in some links, this is not usually necessary. “HTML” is the name of the coding language that is used to produce the vast majority of web pages.  

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