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Domain names demystified.
Published 12 Mar, 2008 in marketing, hosting, domaining by rainrain | Comment (0)Pizza.com recently sold for $2.6m; but I just want a domain for my business. Should I get a dot com or a dot ie or both. What are domains all about.
Basically a Domain Name is a name which points to a website. So for instance www.mywebsite.com or www.yourwebpage.ie etc. The www part of the website is standard but sometimes there may be 'Subdomains' e.g. shop.yourwebsite.com or forum.mywebsite.ie. The holder of the registered domain mywebsite.com would have sole rights to use any subdomains and this would be worked out with their hosting company. Similarly they could set up email addresses on this domain -- me@mywebsite.ie, info@mywebsite.ie, your.name@yourwebsite.com, etc.
