What are Domain Names?

Let us now look at this simple question:

what are domain names from a human point of view.

Domain names allow Internet users to easily find and communicate with web sites and other server-based services.

In other words Domain names are more friendly to most of us because they are not only easier to say but also to memorize when compared to numbers.

The reason we register a domain name to use instead of IP addresses is that they are closer to our language and therefore easier to identify and remember.

Simple activity.

Which is easier to speak out or memorize?

Go to 64.233.167.99
Or Go to www.google.com

Okay go ahead speak it out...

Now try to look at it again and then try to give the IP address or the domain name to your friend

Which method will you prefer, the 64.233.167.99 or www.google.com?

What are Domain Names?

Before we go further, let us briefly look at an URL.

URL is an abbreviation that stands for uniform resource locator and it is the same throughout the world.

Here is a simple example.

URL= http:www.your-inforcom.com/scams.html

The above URL consist of:

http: Which is the Protocol.

www: Which is the host computer name.

your-inforcom: Is the domain name.

.com: Is the domain type.

/ Is the path.

scams.html: Is the file name.

It is also important to note here that the url is actually a set of four numbers that are separated by periods.

Finally, let us bring it all together:

Computers communicate to each other using an IP address that is numeric in nature, but to make it easier, human beings use domain names that are more descriptive and easy to remember to refer to a given IP address.

The DNS -- Internet Domain Name System then translates the alphanumerical (domain names) address to numeric(IP address)

You can read more about what are domain names here

Let us now look at the type of domain names.

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