| If you are planing to start an online business you will | | | | (Canada), .rs (republic of Serbia). |
| have to register a domain name. What is domain | | | | Allowed characters |
| name? Domain name is a unique name of a web site. | | | | - A domain name can not contain certain characters |
| In order to be visible, every web site must have a | | | | like: ) ( / . , |
| domain name. Domain is the mask of an IP address. | | | | - Domain name can contain letters (a,b,c,s etc) and |
| Every web site is held on web servers (web hosting) | | | | "-" |
| and can be accessible through IP address. Every | | | | How domain names work? |
| domain name is pointed to an IP address of server | | | | Every time you type a domain name in the address |
| where web site is hosted. | | | | bar of your internet browser this process is done: |
| Domain name contains 3 parts: | | | | - You send your local ISP task to find registrar of a |
| 1. www. (world wide web) | | | | domain that you have typed. |
| 2.name (you can chose it) | | | | - ISP searches for registrar |
| 3.TLD (example .com or .net) | | | | - Register searches for a web host (place where |
| Domain names can be registered for one year | | | | website is located) (before that owner of a web site |
| minimum. Nobody can stole your domain if you | | | | must define where to point domain name) |
| register it. | | | | Where to register a domain name? |
| Types of TLDs: | | | | Almost every web hosting provider can register a |
| .com - commercial | | | | domain name for you. Unlike web hosting domains |
| .net - network | | | | are better when they are cheap. There is no |
| .org - television | | | | difference between domain with 2.95$ / per year |
| .info - information | | | | registration and 15$ / per year registration. So if you |
| .me - Montenegro | | | | are looking for a domain names look for cheap ones, |
| .biz - business | | | | you can always point a domain name to a different |
| ...And there are many other local TLDs like .ca | | | | web host. |