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What
is a domain name?
Practically speaking, your domain name (Web address)
is the core of your Internet identity, your online brand.
Your customers will remember this name and use it to
find your Web site, your products or your services.
And since no two parties can ever hold the same domain
name (Web address) simultaneously, your Internet identity
is totally unique.
Technically,
a domain name (Web address) is an addressing construct
used for identifying and locating computers on the Internet.
While computers use Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to
locate each other on the Internet, people find them
hard to remember. Therefore, domain names (Web addresses)
were developed to permit the use of easily remembered
words and phrases to identify Internet addresses.
For example, the domain name (Web address) verisign.com
represents VeriSign Web sites. When you type verisign.com
into a Web browser or send e-mail to someone at verisign.com,
the Domain Name System (DNS) translates verisign.com
into the IP numbers used by the Internet and connects
you to VeriSign.
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