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Domain Name Secrets Revealed
by: Sourav Choudhury
If the internet is about interactivity
between websites, your domain name is the door for that interactivity.
It is your online identity, very much like the name
of your best friend, what is his very own personal identity.
From a user’s point of view,
a domain name is what he types in the address bar of
his web browser to get a certain web site.
However, the scene behind the screen
is not exactly the same. Though we see that computers
use domain names to communicate over the internet, the
basic things that they use to communicate is something
called Internet Protocol Address (also called IP address).
It is something numerical and a simple IP address can
be like 10100011.00011011.00010101.10010011.
This kind of combination of zeros
and ones is called binary number system. To make things
easier for people IP addresses are translated from binary
to decimal numbers and the result becomes something
like: 189.01.23.255 This looks simpler, but when thousands
and millions of websites are in question, this kind
of number system, though better than the first one,
was still posing problem and then at last in 1983, the
University of Wisconsin came forward with a solution
to it, and that was to replace these numeric values
with suitable text formats.
So here starts the story of www.kigoobe.com
or www.yahoo.com or www.microsoft.com. Of course you
will agree, that this is much easier to remember than
all these 1 2 3 4 etc.
Another term important in this context
and what you may come across quite often is URL. An
URL (Uniform Resource Locator) can be said as the exact
address that holds your domain name. For example, URL
of the domain name www.kigoobe.com will be http://www.kigoobe.com.
To see that in action, open another window and type
in www.kigoobe.com in its address bar. If you press
the enter key after that, you will see that kigoobe.com
has been changed to http://www.kigoobe.com as the page
loads. That's the URL. The browser changes it itself.
If we break this in different parts,
we will find http, www, kigoobe, and com.
http: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
Protocol stands for a set of rules for these kinds of
communications. Transfer we all know. Hyper text stands
for texts that contain links to other texts, and which
is not constrained to be linear only. It can thus hold
text, graphics, images, sound, video, and other multimedia
files, etc.
Now if we take all together, http
or hyper text transfer protocol stands as a set of rules
that come into being during transfer of those kinds
of hyper text files over the internet.
www: World Wide Web. It refers to
all the publicly accessible websites of the world. Besides
it also includes ftp (file transfer protocol) files,
usenet newsgroups, etc.
kigoobe: It can be anything, something
that you choose yourself. We have chosen Kigoobe, somebody
else chose one day yahoo, you can choose yourname, or
yourbusiness, whatever.
com: The most commonly used first
level domain name. Other first level domain names include
.org, .net, .edu, .gov, .us, .fr, etc.
Also, be wary of domain name fraud which seems to be everywhere on eBay.
About The Author
author, Sourav Choudhury is a Master
of Science in Biological Anthropology and by profession,
a web designer and owner of kigoobe.com, a Paris based
web designing firm.
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