What is Domain? How to Buy it?

What is Domain? How to Buy it?

Domain

The domain name is a unique id of the website you created which is identified by numbers called IP address.

An IP address is used to connect data to the servers.IP is also a domain but it is quite hard to remember and difficult to use that is the reason, it is rather used in the form of words. The domain is a URL but it is a main identity of the website.

Example : 

IP Address: https//192.168.0.1/ is the domain of the TP-link router and www.kunwarlab.blogspot.com is the domain of my blog. Here you can understand IP is also the domain but it is hard to remember but my blog domain which is in the word is very easy to remember.

Why it is necessary?

The domain is like an address of our home where our home address is used to find our home location, in the same way, domain is used to locate our website in the web of the internet.

What are the types of the domain?

There are several types of the domain but here I'm listing some of the most used top-level domains.

.com

This is an open Top -level domain. Any organization or person has permission to use it. This the most widely used domain and used by all types of entities like schools, private firms, small organization etc.

.net

This is also an open top-level domain. any person or entity is authorized to join this. this is normally used by internet service providers.

.org

This is also an open top-level domain. This is mainly used by an organization.

.edu

This type of domain is limited used by education institute, school, colleges and universities only.

.gov

This type of domain is limited for us government entities and other authorized government state and countries.

How to get a domain ??

Unfortunately claiming a domain name is not free. you must have to buy it from the respective domain registrar. Here are some tips for you to buy a domain name.

1. At first, you need to think some of the domain names for your website. Thinking one name is not enough because the domain name is the fast disappearing thing, it might be already taken.

You can check your domain name availability in the various domain check website. here I'm using Godaddy.com for checking the availability of domain names.

2. You must have a credit or debit card or PayPal for domain buying.

3. After domain buying the name you can connect it with your website. If you are worried about building a website and hosting, you can make your website using google blogger. it doesn't require to buy hosting.