How to Create Website Part – I - Domain

Domain Name – How much it is familiar to you?  Use it everyday, every hour, every minute like google in (simplest example )  any name registered in the DNS  Top Level Domains:.com,.info,.net,.org  Reserved domains:  example: reserved for use in examples  invalid: reserved for use in obviously invalid domain names  localhost: reserved to avoid conflict with the traditional use of localhost as a hostname  test: reserved for use in tests

Domain name: Let’s break it  organized right to left,  with general descriptors to the right, and  specific descriptors to the left  like family surnames  TLD - far right of a domain name  Mid level domains - in the middle  machine name, often "www", is to the far left  levels of domains are separated by periods ("dots")  example – matrixsoft.inmatrixsoft.in  matrixsoft is the larger mid-level domain .in is the top level domain

Domain name registrar  For managing reservation of domains  Network Solutions – First and Best  Godaddy.com  Hostgator.com  Matrixsoft.in

Domain name & URL ? Are they same ?  URL – Uniform Resource Locator  Also known as web address  Shown in address bar in any web browser  Every URL consists of the following:  the scheme name (commonly called protocol) - how to connect  a colon, two slashes - where to connect  a host or a domain name or literal IP address  optionally a port number  the full path of the resource  what to ask for

How expensive they are?  COM Rs  NET Rs  ORG Rs Rs Promo  INFO Rs  Million dollar domain deals:  Insure.com $16 million in 2009  Fund.com 2008 £9.99 million  Fb.com for $8.5 million in November 2010  Investing.com for $2.5 million in December 2012

Thanks for listening… ! Tomorrow’s topic: How to Create Website: Part II - Hosting