Do you want to know what is a domain name, its components, uses and different types?.. You are in the right place!
Each website on the Internet has its own domain name or domain name that represents the unique address that visitors use to visit the site.
In this lesson, the hosting MYHOST‘s team explains the domain name or what is known as the domain name in detail.
After reading this explanation, you will learn about the types of domains, their components, the most famous domain extensions, tips for choosing the best domain for your site, and more.

Do you know what a domain or domain is?
A domain name or domain name is an essential and necessary component of any website, as it is your phone number through which you can be contacted.

In this lesson from the Basics of Web Hosting lesson series, we will explain what a domain name is, how it works, its types in detail, as well as how to choose the best domain for your site.

All websites of all kinds need a domain or domain name in addition to the hosting service so that visitors can easily access the site and also to maintain their own brand or trade name from being used by other persons or entities not affiliated with the site.

Add to that also that having your own domain will make it easy for you to promote this domain and you are sure that anyone who visits this domain will reach your site and not others, which means that every penny you spend on promoting your website will reach its revenues only for you.

Not to mention that you can (which we recommend in the hosting MYHOST) keep the domain for your personal site or business for a long time, up to 10 full years, and you can renew the domain reservation period at any time you want for an annual fee.

«Domain Name» or «Domain Name» or «Domain Name» or «Domain» and called Domain Name in English, is simply the address of the website that you type in the browser to access it and it replaces the Internet Protocol address of the site due to the difficulty of saving the IP address in general, as it consists of numbers and letters in the case of the sixth Internet Protocol version IPv6.

What is a domain name?

The domain name or domain name, known among many Arab users as the “domain” only, is a set of letters, numbers and some symbols that are the unique address of the website through which the site can be visited from any device connected to the Internet or the network in which the website is located.

A website domain is its own unique identifier similar to your phone number or national number, so we mean that no two sites can own the same domain, but for your information, one site can own more than one domain or domain and the site can be visited through all of them without problem.

What is the difference between a domain and a URL?

Some confuse the website domain with the URL of the so-called Uniform Resource Locator because the latter is commonly used to visit different websites.

Due to this common confusion, the team of the MYHOST of Hosting will explain the difference between the two in the following lines so that you can distinguish between the two easily and easily, and you can also view the domain dictionary and Internet protocols in the site of the MYHOST of Hosting to learn about the different common terms in this field.

Uniform URL

A URL or uniform resource locator, or URL, or URL, is the direct address of any resource resource on the Internet. And with a resource we mean pages, files, photos, videos, etc.

Perhaps one of the most prominent examples of URLs is the domain explanation page where you are reading this text now!

The easiest way to visit this page on the MYHOSTof Hosting website at any time and from anywhere, you just have to enter its URL: https://myhost.host/what-is-domain/ It is a unique title specific to this page and no other.

Domain or domain

A domain, on the other hand, is part of the URL of any web page on the Internet or other networks.

And not to go too far with examples, let’s use this page as an example as well to illustrate the difference between a URL and a domain.

If we take this page URL: https://myhost.host/what-is-domain/ We can divide it into two main parts or syllables: https://myhost.host It is the domain of the myhost.host of Hosting site in addition to the HTTPS Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), so it becomes clear that the domain of the myhost.host of Hosting website is myhost.host.

as for /what-is-domain/ The path or file name is called the path or address of this page within the site of the hosting myhost.host itself.

Domain components

The domain consists of three basic parts or sections:

• The subdomain or subdomain.
• Domain name or domain name.
• Domain extension.

Each of these syllables is separated by a dot sign. .

To give you a practical example of the combination of a domain name and domain components, let’s take the domain of the MYHOSTof Hosting myhost.host As an example:

• Subdomain: ar
• Domain Name: myhost.host
• Domain extension: com

In the same vein, we find that the domain search engine Google www.google.com It is divided into the following:

• Subdomain: www
• Domain Name: google
• Domain extension: com

This diagram illustrates the components of the hosting MYHOST‘s domain more clearly.

What is a domain extension?

The domain extension or domain extension is what is added after the site name in the domain and in most cases it expresses the activity of the site, so the domain of the site MYHOST of Hosting myhost.host It is divided as follows:
Domain Name: myhost.host
Scope Spanning: com

The most commonly used domain name extensions and their meanings

• com It expresses an economic entity or company and is the most used extension in the world
• net The network expresses
• org It expresses a non-profit organization
• edu And expresses an educational body or institution
• us Expresses the locations of companies operating in the United States of America
• uk Used by sites operating in the UK
• eg And used by Egyptian companies
• sa It is used by companies operating in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• ae It is used by companies operating in the UAE
• tv And used by satellite channels

More new extensions are constantly being added to meet the needs of users and businesses.

How does a domain work with website hosting?

In order for the domain to work with the hosting of your site, they must be linked together, as you must link the domain to the DNS of the hosting and this is done through the control panel of the private domain.

For more information see this article: What is DNS

There are many companies that provide a domain reservation service, the most famous of which is Namecheap and the most famous company ever GoDaddy.

Tips for choosing a domain site?

Certainly, choosing a website domain is not a random matter that does not need to be thought or arranged, but it is one of the most important points to pay attention to when creating your website.

Here is a set of points to consider when choosing your domain from our experience in the hosting MYHOST:

• Choose a domain that is as similar to your company or business name as possible.
• Use a domain extension com As much as possible or choose a domain extension that corresponds to your site’s activity.
• Keep your site’s domain short.
• Choose a domain name that’s easy to memorize and remember.
• Choose a domain name that targets your site’s domain and has the keyword.
• Use your real data when booking the domain.
• Reserve the domain for as long as possible in order to avoid losing the domain if you forget to renew or any emergency circumstance occurs, God forbid, in addition to that, search engines trust sites that reserve their domains for a longer period, which may benefit you in improving the ranking of your site in search engine results.
• Choose a domain name that can be converted to a Brandable brand.
• Avoid using numbers and comma.
• Don’t use a domain name that is similar to your competitors or contains another brand name.

Types of domain

There are several types of domains such as the main domain, subdomain, additional domain, etc. In this section, we will take a look at them and explain each type of domain and its most prominent uses.

Primary Domain

The main domain is the primary domain of the hosting account which is used to log in to the hosting control panel and handle the technical support of the web hosting company you use.

A hosting account cannot have more than one main domain, there must be only one primary domain per web hosting account.

Example: myhost.host

Parked Domain

A suspended domain or suspended domain is a domain name that has been reserved but is not used, and the word “deprecated” here does not mean that the domain is not working, but rather it is more like parking or parking a car in a parking lot.

When you park a car at the car site, you are in this case not using it and the car is not working, but it is still yours and you can operate and benefit from it at any time you want without obstacles. A suspended domain is not much different from a car, as it is a registered domain that has been purchased but is not associated with any hosting or email hosting services.

Many domain merchants and premium domain merchants reserve and maintain unique domain names for years in order to then sell them for huge sums that can reach hundreds of millions of dollars. These privileged domains that are held for a long time without being used are known as parked domains.

Besides premium domains that are kept for resale at high prices, many domains are also suspended for a period of time.

When a domain is purchased, the domain remains suspended for a period of time until it is linked to the hosting, and in that case the domain registrar from whom the domain was purchased stops the domain with a simple virtual page stating that the domain has been reserved and often contains links to instructions on how to start using the domain and link it to hosting.

The case in which the domain is not suspended immediately after buying it is when buying hosting and a domain from one company, where the company connects the domain to its hosting service automatically without user intervention.

Addon Domain

An additional domain is any domain hosted on the same hosting account other than the main domain but linked to a separate site.

Simply put, when a web hosting package allows creating more than one site on the same hosting account, when you create a separate site on the same account with a different domain, this different domain is an additional domain.

The files of the new site are hosted in its own folder in the public_html folder and are separate from the main site files of the hosting account.

Example: Domain any additional site hosted on a web hosting account.

Subdomain

As can be seen from the name, a subdomain is a branch of the main domain and the subdomain link must contain the main domain.

If we liken the domain to a “street”, we can say that the subdomain is a “house” on that street. Thus the address of the house must include the street itself.

One of the most prominent examples of subdomains is the hosting MYHOST website that you are browsing now. Its domain
myhost.host It is a subdomain of this Hosting MYHOST domain myhost.host And the subdomain specifically is ar.

An example of this is also the email service from Google Gmail, whose link is mail.google.com.

Common uses for subdomains include:

• Use them on multilingual sites so that each subdomain expresses a copy of the site in a specific language.
• Create a subdomain for mobile and tablet version such as m.facebook.com.
• Blog hosting services such as Blogger, WordPress, and others, which give each blog its own subdomain as follows:
  Blogger: example.blogspot.com.
  WordPress.com: example.wordpress.com.

Example: myhost.host and mail.google.com

With this, we have finished explaining the domain, its types, and tips on how to choose the best domain for your site, and in the guide to the cheapest domain you will find a list of the best domain registration companies that provide domain reservation and registration service at the cheapest prices.

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