A domain name is a like a sign post within the internet, it simply points to a server and asks the server to return the information the user or visitor is looking for. A domain is, quite simple, www.google.com or www.example.com
All domain names are unique throughout the internet, although there are several parts to them. The www. part to the domain name is, effectively, a sub-domain of the domain itself. It is often not required, and sometimes website owners prefer not to include the www. part of their web address.
Domain name can end in a multitude of letters too, to indentify what the site is about, or what country it is from. You are probably familiar with 4 or 5 “endings”, often known as TLD’s, but there are hundreds.
A few, for example, the obvious ones – .com, .co.uk, .net, .info, but there are many others such as .tel, .gov, .edu, .to, .me, .ms and many others.
