What is a web address / Domain name?

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Every page you want to visit in the internet is based on an url. A web address is needed to build up a website. This is the base name under that your website will be reached. Your website usually will have a lot of pages, so under your domain name, there will appear a lot of subfolders and subpages. Another explaination is here.

Domain names can be owned only by 1 person / organization. So there is a quiet hard competition on good domain names. To get a good one, you usually need to buy a domain from someone else, because the good one are all already taken.

Domain Hosting Review Name.com

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If you want to host your domains, there are many Domain Hosting Providers, that delivers a lot of features. If you have a lot of domains, then my recommendation is to spread the domains to a few good domain hosting providers.

Donot put all eggs in 1 basket !

One of my domain hosting providers is name.com. What I like on name.com is, that they have a simple site, where its very easy to make queries for new domain names. Name.com offers a lot of different domain extensions, so if you want to check, if you can get a keyword domain, you see exactly, if maybe for some exotic domain extension your domain is still free. The next point is you can easyly edit nameservers. It means you can host the site at name.com, but also at any other web hosting company. You can use the nameservers of name.com and just make the dns entries for that or you delegate the nameserver to your webhost.

Another cool thing is the integration of Google Apps. With a few clicks you can setup Google Apps for Domains (free). Which allows you to use Googlemail for your domains free of charge, How cool is that?