Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ~Wynetka Ann Reynolds
Domain Name
Is the unique name that give each Internet site its own address or identity. For example, www.mnmdesign.com
Your domain name is the important part of your web-site and needs to be looked after and kept under your control.
Your domain name is the important part of your web-site and needs to be looked after and kept under your control.
Web-site
A web-site can be thought of in it's simplest form, as an electronic brochure, book or diary available to everyone at all times. But a web-site can do much more than just present the printed word. It is probably the most cost effective way of publicising yourself and your business.
The internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that all use common language to connect and serve billions of users worldwide.
It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies.
It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies.
Domains, web-sites and the internet
A Domain name is YOUR business name on the world wide net, for example www.bbc.co.uk or www.microsoft.com
The domain name is a very important part of anyone's web-site as visitors use it to find you on the www.
It is important to keep hold of the domain name, web-sites can easily be reproduced, a domain name, if you let it lapse and someone else registers it, it's gone and is very difficult and costly to get back.
The actual physical location of the web-site is not important, wherever it is hosted, in whichever country, visitors can find it by using the domain name.
How it works.
You want to view a web-site, you type in the address, www.sally-dog.com, your computer sends the request for the first page of the site to your ISP. Your ISP looks up the physical address in it's database [dns] and routes the request on via other networks to the actual server the site is located on. The web page and all it's eliments are then sent over the internet to your computer ready for your web browser to display.
A domain name and actual web-site can be hosted on different servers and in different country's. The domain name points to the physical web-site.
The domain name holds the address of where the web-site resides. If you move the web-site to a different server all you have to do is update the domain name to point to the new location, this in turn updates the dns servers which are used to look up the web-site, meaning your web-site will still be reachable by visitors.Remember your domain name is very important, a web-site can easily be replaced, the domain name can't, look after it.
