Domain and Hosting

A domain name is your name on the internet. Imagine you have a phone agenda, where you mark each person’s name and then its phone number. You won’t probably remember all the phone numbers of everyone, right?

So a domain name is like a world wide web agenda. Whenever you type the URL or domain name of a company, your browser will query the DNS Server of the hosting provider, and then it will obtain the website’s IP address. With the IP address in hands, your browser will reach the desired website.

In other words, the IP address is like the phone number of your website. But, it’s identified by the domain name, instead of a personal name in your phone’s agenda.