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Q: What is a domain name?
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Practically speaking, your domain name (Web address) is the core of
your Internet identity, your online brand. Your customers will remember
this name and use it to find your Web site, your products or your
services. And since no two parties can ever hold the same domain name
(Web address) simultaneously, your Internet identity is totally
unique.Technically, a domain name (Web address) is an addressing
construct used for identifying and locating computers on the Internet.
While computers use Internet Protocol (IP) numbers to locate each other
on the Internet, people find them hard to remember. Therefore, domain
names (Web addresses) were developed to permit the use of easily
remembered words and phrases to identify Internet addresses.For
example, the domain name (Web address) verisign.com represents VeriSign
Web sites. When you type verisign.com into a Web browser or send e-mail
to someone at verisign.com, the Domain Name System (DNS) translates
verisign.com into the IP numbers used by the Internet and connects you
to VeriSign. |
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Q: What does E-commerce mean?
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E-commerce (an abbreviation for Electronic Commerce) is the buying and
selling of products and services by businesses and consumers over the
Internet. |
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Q: What are keywords?
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These keywords tell WHOIS to restrict its search to only a certainfield
in the database, there are the following keywords (shown withtheir
minimum abbreviation in all CAPS): HAndle or '!'NAme or leading '.'
Mailbox or contains '@'DOmainPErsonHOstOrganizationSErverALlYou may
access the keywords using the radio buttons in our searchbox, or type
them dirtectly into the WHOIS search box. |
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