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Cyber Jargon Buster
Domain Name Explanation
If a
website was a house/shop then a "domain name" would be the address of
that house/shop.
In
the early days of the internet as we know it now IP addresses were used for
people to view information on one computer from another computer. Although the
internet was first invented in 1969 by the US Department of defence, it wasn't
until later in 1989 that an Englishman called Tim Berners-Lee invented the
www. domain system as we know it.
Instead of having to type in a set of numbers known as an IP address the idea
was to type in a set of memorable characters so that people could easily
remember how to view useful information stored on computers known as servers.
This
was the birth of the domain name, a set of numbers and or letters which
people could type in to the address bar in order to view a website.
Initially each set of characters would end with the .com extension, but as the
popularity of the internet grew other extensions were allocated for
organisations and for each country. This way, the same set of characters could
be used but ending in a different extension (see domain extensions) which
increased the availability of popular domains.
The
.com is still the Daddy of the domain extensions, and many people will
often type in .com instead of .net .co.uk .us etc which will take them to a
different site to the one they meant to arrive at.
This is why it is important to make sure you have your
domains .com
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