WHAT IS A WEBSITE DOMAIN? BEGINNER GUIDE

Table of Contents
• What Website Domain Means
• Examples Of Website Domains You See Everyday
• Why A Domain Is Important for Website
• How To Choose a Good Domain as a Beginner
• Domain Extensions and What They Mean

Website domain is what some of you must have been hearing about in different places, but it is required if you are building any kind of website. And in this training guide today, I will be teaching and also explaining everything about website domain to you, even as a beginner. As you are learning everything from me here, you just have to put in your best and learn all that I will be teaching you today, because you are learning from one of the experts in the tech field, and also who have built and hosted different and multiple type of projects. Now we will be starting with what website domain means.

WHAT WEBSITE DOMAIN MEANS

A website domain simply means the name that you enter or type in a browser so as to visit a website and the best example that I will give you now is, let me say that you want to visit Facebook website, you can go to your browser on your phone and search for facebook.com and it will open Facebook page for you on your phone. Now what you just searched on your phone browser is known as domain, and you can call it Facebook domain. Another example is if you get your own name, it can look like this; "yourname.com, yourname.org, businessname.com" and other formats too.

EXAMPLES OF WEBSITE DOMAINS YOU SEE EVERYDAY

As I have already explained what website domain means, and in summary it is a name that you type in your browser (Chrome, Opera mini, Firefox) to be able to visit a website. And now, I will be listing some of the website domains that you mostly must have seen everyday, and some of them are; (1) youtube.com: most of you normally uses it to watch video. (2) google.com: it is used for searching information online. (3) facebook.com: this is a website that is used for social networking and I believe that almost everyone knows it and uses it to either post pictures or chat with others. (4) Instagram.com: this website is still similar to Facebook and it is both owned by same person. (5) amazon.com: this is a website that is used in shopping online. (6) bbc.com: this is a global news website, where individuals come to listen to news.

WHY A DOMAIN IS IMPORTANT FOR WEBSITE

We will be talking about why a website domain is important for your website. A website domain is important for your website because it is the identity of your website online, and also these are the importance of a domain for website; (1) Trust and easy to remember: using a website domain makes users and visitors to trust your website based that it is owned by a real person or business, and also people can be able to easily remember your website easily. (2) Professional: a website domain name will help to make your website look professional and especially if it is a business or blog website. (3) Branding: website domain name normally plays a good role in branding, because the domain name usually represents the name of the website or purpose. (4) Ranking: Google and other search engines uses website domain name as a part of ranking your website higher, which helps with SEO.

HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD DOMAIN AS A BEGINNER

I have earlier told you the importance of using a domain for your website. Now we will be talking about how to choose a good domain for your website, even if you are a beginner that just designed a website, you will be able to choose a good domain for your website after following all this tips. These is how you can be able to choose a good domain for your website as a beginner; (1) When choosing a domain name as a beginner, it should be simple, clear and easy to remember. (2) use a name that matches the purpose of your website, for example if it is a tool or technology website, then the name should reflect the website idea, so that visitors understand what your website is about. (3) Avoid using numbers, hyphens or symbol, because these often confuse users and also make your website not to look professional. (4) Use a popular domain extension like .com, .ng, .org, because it is widely trusted by people online. (5) Finally, try to use a name that is unique and easy to pronounce, because if people can pronounce it easily then they can easily share it.

DOMAIN EXTENSIONS AND WHAT THEY MEAN

We will be talking about domain extension and it is the last part of a website domain name, that is an extension comes after the website name, which then helps to describe the type, location or purpose of your website. For example, in facebook.com, the .com is the domain extension. And here are other domain extensions and what they mean; (1) .com: commercial websites and business, which is the most popular extension. (2) .org: organizations mostly use it. (3) .net: network and online services brand use it. (4) .edu: education institution uses it. (5) .info: informational website and blogs use it.

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