1. What
is a domain name, and why should I register
one?
Domain names act as the first point of
contact to persons and businesses on the
Internet. Without a domain name, your personal
or corporate enterprise has no unique identity
for the millions of Internet users across
the globe. We are here to help you make
the perfect first impression to those you
seek to reach on the World Wide Web.
To understand the importance of domain
names, and our role in establishing your
Web presence, please read the following
information:
A. What is the World Wide
Web about?
B. What are Domain
names, and how do they connect users to
the Web?
C. What are domain
names and Websites good for?
D. How do customers
use their domain names and Websites to
make users happy?
A. What is the World
Wide Web about?
The World Wide Web (WWW), known simply
as the Web, is an ever-evolving collection
of documents located on the Internet and
stored on computers found throughout the
world. These documents may contain any
type of information, including text,images,
sound, movie clips and more.
Servers
The computers that store Web documents
are called servers. These computers run
special software that lets you connect
to Web documents. You are viewing a document
stored on our servers, ns1.domainsite.com
and ns2.domainsite.com, right now.
Browsers
The software that lets you view documents
on the Web is called a browser. You need
to be running a browser to read a document
just like you need to be running a word
processor to view a letter or a report
created by that word processor. Browsers
enable you to view text, images, and movies
as well as to hear sounds. The browser
you are using now, whether it is Internet
Explorer, AOL, or Juno, allows you to
access this document.
Navigating the Web
Many organizations have their own servers.
When you connect to a server, the first
document you view is called the home page;
you saw our home page when you typed in
www.domainsite.com to your browser. Businesses,
government agencies, schools, even individuals
have home pages to which you can connect.
Every home page has a Web address so that
you can find it, called a URL (Uniform
Resource Locator); our home page's URL
is www.domainsite.com.
Using Hypertext Documents
Most documents on the Web are what known
as hypertext documents. That is, they
are documents that contain links to other
documents. These links may be text that
is highlighted in some way, or they may
be images. For example, you used a link
called "Why register a domain name?"
on our home page to get here. When you
clicked on the link, the document you
are now reading was displayed.
Navigating Hypertext Documents
Thus, if you click on a link with your
mouse, you will be transported to another
document. That document may be stored
on the same Web server or another Web
server somewhere else in this world. Moving
about from one document to another or
from one Web server to another is called
"surfing the net."
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B. What are
domain names, and how do they connect
users to the Web?
A domain name is a way to identify and
locate computers and resources, such as
Websites, connected to the Internet. Spot
Domain LLC uses the domain name domainsite.com
to identity its Website and associated
resources, such as this text document.
Every company or organization that wants
to be on the Internet will register a
domain name for use as their on-line identity
or name that users will use to access
on-line services such as the organization's
Website or email system. You located our
Website by typing our domain name domainsite.com
into your browser.
For example, Spot Domain LLC, our company,
registered the domain name domainsite.com
so that users on the Internet can access
our Website, purchase our products, and
send email to Spot Domain LLC employees
at our various email addresses, such as
techsupport@domainsite.com. Much like
a company's name, logo, or 800-number,
a domain name has marketing value when
customers can easily remember and associate
it with the organization. Since over 11
million domain names have already been
registered worldwide, it can be difficult
to find a good domain name. We can help
you find domain names and will help you
through the processes of registering a
domain and setting up a Website for your
business or organization.
Each domain name corresponds to numeric
IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. An IP
address takes the form of 4 groups of
numbers, each one between 0 and 255, separated
by periods. The Internet uses the numeric
IP address to send data. For instance,
you are currently connecting to a World
Wide Web server with the domain name "domainsite.com,"
but as far as the network is concerned,
you are connecting to the server with
the IP address associated with our domain
name.
The Domain Name System completes the
task of matching domain names to IP (Internet
Protocol) addresses. The Domain Name System
is a collection of databases that contain
information about domain names and their
corresponding IP addresses. Domain name
servers are computers that translate domain
names to IP addresses. This system allows
Internet users to deal with the more intuitive
domain names, rather than having to remember
a series of numbers.
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C. What
are domain names and Websites good for?
Two words - Sales and Visibility
According to the Yankee Group, online
retail sales have grown from $11.5 billion
in 1998 to $125.6 billion in 2003.
With greater frequency, individuals and
business are looking to the Web for purchasing
products and services, and they do it
because it's convenient. Furthermore,
merchants are finding that it's not expensive
to get their "store" online.
And that store can be up and taking orders
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Even if you are not in business per se,
a domain name will make you visible to
the millions of users on the Web. Without
a domain name, users cannot identify the
resources you have to offer on the Internet.
Many individuals use domain names to connect
with like-minded individuals "surfing
the Web."
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D. How do
customers use their domain names and Websites
to make users happy?
The best domain names are easy to remember,
and the best Websites are easy to use.
Users look to resources on the Web that
are efficient.The process of obtaining
an easy-to-remember domain name and creating
a user-friendly Website can be broken
into 3 stages.
i. Choose a domain name - Find a name
that will best describe your Website.
This name is how people will find you
when they go onto the World Wide Web.
Once you have found the right name for
your Website and you are sure it is available
to purchase, then you need to come to
us and secure the name so others cannot
use it.
ii. Find a company to host your Website
- It is one thing to register your domain
name but it is equally important to attach
that name to a Web server with us so that
you have a place to put up your Website.
We offer a wide range of Web hosting plans
to choose from.
iii. Build your Website - There are 2
ways you could build your Website.
a. Buy a
program like Microsoft Frontpage, Adobe
Golive or Macromedia Dreamweaver
learn how to use the program and build
your own Website.
b. Enlist
our services to do it for you.
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