Posts Tagged by Domains

A domain may only point to a web host’s name servers, which may be responsible for thousands of different websites. In order for your website to appear when someone types it into their web browser, you will need to map your domain to the folder on the web host where you will be hosting the website files.

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By now, you should have registered a domain name and purchased a hosting account. The next step is to connect the two.

In this lesson, you will learn how to point your domain at your hosting account.

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If you’ve never built a website before, you may be feeling somewhat intimidated at the moment. As one client told me, “Before I started, I thought I’d have a better chance building a rocket to the moon than building a website!” But rest assured, as this client found out, the gulf in your knowledge is not so great.

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If you allow someone else to purchase your domain name for you, especially a valuable “dot com” domain, things can go wrong very easily. This article explains what can go wrong and how to protect yourself.

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The very first step in building your website is to register a domain name. A domain name is simply the technical term for the address of a particular website on the Internet; the domain name tells your browser where to access the web page you want to see.

For example, google.com and incomepassport.com are both “dot com” domains.

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You might think that domain names are the addresses you type into your browser to visit particular websites. But what is a domain name, really?

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