Posts Tagged ‘Domains

What is DNS?

In: Domains| Web Hosting

13 Aug 2009

DNS stands for Domain Name System.  If you read our post The Importance of a Dedicated IP Address, then you already know that an IP is your site’s “location” on the internet.  DNS is an internet-wide system that relates domain names with IP addresses.  An easy way to look at DNS is like a phone [...]

As we previously covered in our post What Is Web Hosting?, one of the first steps in getting a web site started is to register a domain name.  Simply put, your domain name is the name of your web site (this site’s domain name it www.thecommonhoster.com).  Once you have registered a domain name, you own [...]


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