Domain Name Registration
May 10, 2008 by Stephen S Alison
Domain name registration is carried out by a domain name registrar – an organisation that holds the central database records for all the domains they administer. They are often government owned or sponsored.
In the domain name registration process you have to first choose a name and a Top Level Domain (TLD) extension such as .com or .net etc. Your chosen domain name and extension will be allocated by the domain registrars on a “first come, first served” basis. In other words, the registrar will first check to see if that name and extension is already taken. If both the name and TLD are available the registrar will go ahead and register it. If either or both are not available, the registrar will make suggestions.
Once you have agreed on a name and TLD, the domain name registration process will then utilize a name service called Domain Name System or DNS. The DNS is a large database which resides on various computers and it contains the names and IP addresses of various hosts on the internet and various domains. The DNS is used to provide information to the Domain Name Service to use when queries are made.
The DNS simply translates friendly names to a numeric number or Internet Protocol (IP) address. For example, if the name and extension you have agreed on is “www.microsoft.com” then the DNS will translate that into 198.105.232.6.
Your domain name will be “unique” to you and you only and will be used to identify and locate your computer on the Internet by providing a system of easy-to-remember Internet addresses which are translated by Domain Name Servers (DNS) into numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used by the Internet.
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