Unless you are a nomad or homeless, you will have an address. Your address is the place where you live. It is the place to which people can address ‘snail’ mail, or to where they could travel to come to see you.

Your address will generally start from some specifics to more generic details. For example, it will generally start with a certain number. This is the number of your house or unit which differentiates your house or unit from everyone else living in that street or road.

And, your street or road is specific to all of those people living in that street or road, as opposed to the millions of other streets or roads in which they could live.

Your street will be in a particular city, town or shire. This differentiates all of those living in that area from all the other possible cities etc., in which they could be living.

Geographic areas are also usually divided into post codes, or zip codes if you live in the USA.

And, the final part of your residential address is the country in which you live.

So your residential address could look something like this:

56 Best Street, Brisbane, 4609, Australia.

Now, that particular address does not currently exist. But, it is a possible address.

Web sites also have addresses, and they have many similarities to residential addresses.

There are millions of web sites currently in existence, and there are thousands more being added daily. Just like you have a unique residential address, each of these web sites also has a unique address, which differentiates each of them from the millions of others out there.

This unique web site address is called its domain name. For example the address for the web site on which you are currently is: http://www.websitesonwww.com

Often now the domain name is shortened to:

www.websitesonwww.com

No other web site can have the above domain name. It is specific to this web site. Every time you type that domain name into the address bar of your internet browser, it will come to this web site.

On the next page I shall further discuss domain names, and the processes involved in getting hold of them and keeping them.

Ian McKenzie’s Domains

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