Understanding a Domain

What is a Domain name? What is domain?

Domain names identify an IP address. An IP address is a series of numbers assigned to a location of file on the internet..

For example:
The domain name ALRHosting represents the IP address 173.201.216.66. If you type either into a wed browser you will get the same website page. Domain names are used as a part of an URL to identify specific web pages. That is why anyone anywhere in the world can type in our URL containing our domain name and find our site.

For example:
In the URL http://www.alrhosting.com/index.html, the domain name is alrhosting.com.

Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which top level domain (TLD) it belongs to. There are only a limited number of such domains.

For example:
gov - Government agencies    edu - Educational institutions
org - Organizations (nonprofit)    mil - Military
com - commercial business   net - Network organizations
inc- corperations    me- personal sites/ or fan sites
co- comapany    tv- televison shows site or TV related
and so on.

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