What is a domain name?

Domain name is defined as the text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet. A domain name must be unique. Internet users access your website using your domain name. download The process of copying files, information and images from the Internet to your computer. Every time a visitor accesses a page on the Internet, they are downloading the contents of that page. (source: www.simplenet.com.au/sbc_glossary.shtml)

It sounds dry to digest, I know.

Let me illustrate a simple example here:






In the reality world, if you want to pay me a visit, once I give you the address, No123, Taman ABC, Kuala Lumpur. You will be able to locate me, right? In the world of Internet, in order for someone to visit your website, you will need a domain name.

For human being, we use the language we understand to remember the MalaysiaDomainName.com

But for a computer, it memorizes the domain in the computer format which is what we called IP address such as 10.148.21.101. Every domain on the internet is unique, that is why once a domain is taken, you will not be able to register it anymore.