Importance of Domain Name in Web Hosting
There are many people who have seen a domain name; yet they do not even realize that they really know what a domain name is or what it even looks like. There is one very simple way to explain what a domain name is: a domain name is everything in between the www dot and the “dot-com”, “dot-edu”, “dot-gov” or “dot-org” in a web site address. If you are looking at www.yahoo.com for example, the www stands for World Wide Web while yahoo is the company’s specific name and the “dot-com” refers to the fact that the web site is a commercial website.
You may also be asking exactly what the other extensions mean and what direction they are pointing in when it comes to traversing the Internet to find the information that you are looking for. Well, anything with a “dot-edu” extension is always referring to an educational facility. Putting that in simpler terms, the “dot-edu” extension is always going to be telling you that the web site is one that a school owns/operates to tell its students and staff and community what is going on. The “dot-gov” extension is always going to be connected with the country’s government and governmental offices. The “dot-org” extensions all refer to businesses and organizations that are up and running (both non-profit and for profit organizations fall under this one).
There is another type of domain name that you might not have thought about as being of any great importance; yet it carries far more importance that people even realize that it does ; and this one is called/referred to as a Country Code Top Level Domain, or CCTLD for short. These domain names are those that are referring to a very specific country in the world that is outside of your home country. If you were to look at any website that originate in the United Kingdom, for example, the domain name that is in the address bar will have something like this “domain.co.uk” in the web address. This is the most obvious way of telling you and the entire world that this particular web site originated in the United Kingdom (England, Ireland or Scotland).
You might also want to think about something else when you are trying to decide whether you want to create a very short domain name or a slightly longer domain name that is area-specific to where you are located. There are advantages to both of these situations that need to be discussed and thought about before you can make any type of decision either way. If you were to opt for a short domain name, the main advantage there is that the shorter domain names are usually the ones that stay on everyone’s tongues and are much more easily recalled when the person needs what you are offering. The other situation that you might choose is to make your domain name slightly longer than a generic domain name so that you are telling people in that area that you are there to serve their needs.
