What is domain name? Domain name is important for the web hosting services.

Domain name is the unique name that you choose for your web site. Web sites in the World Wide Web have their names and are identified by the domain names that correspond with numeric IP address. By the following example we will illustrate the difference between URL and domain name: URL: http://www.something.com/index.html Domain name: www.something.com Registered domain name: something.com A complete domain name consisting of a host, the second-level domain, and the top-level domain is called FQDN (fully qualified domain name). For example, www.something is a FQDN, where www is the host; something is the second-level domain; and .com is the top-level domain. A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters that follow the fin View the rest of this article