My Domain names guide [1.]

I think everyone knows what a domain name is. It is a name you give your web site. You type the name into a web browser [e.g. IE, Chrome etc.] and wait ’till the web site loads. And you get angry if the web site does not load under 2 seconds But behind the scenes lots of things happen. We will talk about them in one of my future articles as well as about DNS settings and how to chnage some if the settings for some popular services like Google Apps etc.Today it will be only about a light introduction

What’s a domain name?

As said before it is a name for your web site, but it is a compound “thing”. It is made up of several pieces. Let’s explain this on a simple example:

www.icethunder.net

• www – you are accessing a web site and it is a CNAME [a DNS record...we will talk about DNS a little bit later]
  
• icethunder – is you actual name you want to use
• .net is the TLD you have chosen to register
• icethunder + .net together make a domain name you are able to register at a domain registrar.
  

TLD’s or Top level domains

It is  the highest domain name in the domain name hierarchy. It is not possible to register those – as long as you do not have really looots of money There are two kinds of TLD’s out there:

1. country specific e.g.  .DE, .FR, .RU, .AT
2. generic tld’s e.g.  .COM, .NET, .ORG

Country specific domain names tld’s are specific to a single country and are mostly used by web sites and organizations from this country. They are mostly used to identify yourself as coming from the country or doing business in the specific country. Even though these are mainly country specific domain name tld’s there are some exceptions which came with WEB 2.0 and many country specific TLD’s are used as e.g. .FM which is used for online radio stations and services a lot, but in fact it is the TLD of Federated States of Micronesia or .ME which belongs to Montenegro.

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Generic TLD’s are as the name suggests generic and they do not belong or describe any specific country. They are most widely used on the Internet and mainly the .COM is a very common one and I would say it is the standard domain name every surfer is using first when trying to find a domain name he has heard about somewhere They do no cost as much as some of the national specific tld’s and thus they are very commonly registered even instead of a national tld.

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