Domain Name Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. November 2016 A company designed to provide domain registration service to other companies or individuals that would like to own a particular web address. A domain name auction facilitates the buying and selling of currently registered domain names enabling individuals to purchase a previously registered domain that suits their needs from an owner wishing to sellA Drop registrar offers sales of expiring domains.
A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier URI although many people use the two terms interchangeably. A hostname that identifies a computer or computers on the Internet. URL Domain names have extensions called top-level domains at the end of the URL.
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and for application-specific naming and addressing purposes.
Jump to navigation Jump to search. A Uniform Resource Locator URL colloquially termed a web address is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. The Domain Name System DNS is a hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers services or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network. The Domain Name System DNS is a system used to convert a computers host name into an IP address on the Internet.