DOMAIN NAME
A unique name that identifies an
Internet site . A domain name points always to one specific
server while this server may
host many domain names. If you look at the
URL for this page, you'll see www.webguest.com at the beginning. The "www" points to the server and "webguest.com" is our domain name. Most domain names are assigned by the
InterNIC .
The name of a computer or server on the Internet in the form of a string of names or numbers, separated by periods.
Allows you to reference internet sites without knowing the true numerical address.
The text name corresponding to the numeric IP address of a computer on the Internet (i.e.,
http://www.oh-no.com/ ).
This is the name that identifies an web site. For example, "apple.com" is the domain name of Apple Computer's web site. A single web server may have more than one domain name, but a single domain name points to only one machine. To use Apple Computer as an example again, www.apple.com, support.apple.com, and store.apple.com could be served on one to three machines. It is also possible, and quite common, for a domain name to be registered, but not be connected to an actual machine. The reason for this is usually so that a company or group can have e-mail addresses at a certain domain without having to maintain a web site. In these cases, there still must be a machine to handle the mail of the listed domain name.
