Key Points to building a Website

Key 3 Domain Name

In our Mail system everyone has an address. Even a general delivery receipiant is in a country, a county maybe a city or town If you live in a building you are at a street address or box number with a ZIP Code this is how people find you to send you mail.

On the internet the same is true your address is made available to everyone on the internet and usually the extention will indicate what country you are in and to some degree what you are involved with on the internet like gov is Government edu is educational other extentions are not as clearly defined org may be an organization com may be a commercial address but what is in front of the peroid is not always easy to distinguish it may be a name or a subject but every one is listed on a name server near you and if any packets with the description that fall into your name servers local addresses come by it captures them and sends them to your computer.

Having a domain name is like having an address of your own. No matter where in the world someone is if you have a domain they will know right where to go to find you. Search ingines check to see what is behind your domain name so they can direct people looking for you or the information you have put on the net That way you can be found. If you do not have a domain name you are in someone elses like Yahoo.com Hotmail.com montana.com. You can have a domain and still get mail from another domain like aol.com. This is often used by people that do not want others to really know them or where they are. All domains are under the rules of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers0 and they in turn assign the right to give out domains to accredited domain name Registrars Each registry has a whois lookup page. BY Law you forfit the right to own a domain if you do not make sure the information about you is kept correct.

Search engine descriptions may not indicate what a registar will show look up

Read the first line under DATA CEnter then do a whois