What Does A Domain Name Do?
A domain name acts as a people-friendly computer server address.
The Internet is essentially a world-wide arrangement of computer servers, each with unique numbered addresses (in much the same way that we have house numbers and postal codes etc.). We use domain names as aliases for such numbered addresses, as it’s far easier for us to remember and use them.
For example. If a web server exists at address 190.13.45.254, it is far easier for us to use “www.mydomain.com” to reach it, than having to remember all of those numbers!
The servers that ‘manage’ where web and e-mail servers are located on the internet have ‘address tables’ that map the domains to their real numbered address – simple!
Comments (0)
Trackback URL | Comments RSS Feed