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What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is a human-readable name which when linked to a website is assigned to an IP address to make accessing websites much easier.

Domains names comprise of 2 main elements
The domain name itself e.g. uktnet
The TLD (more commonly known as the extension) which relates to the country where the domain is registered.
For example, .co.uk is a domain registered in the United Kingdom, .com is registered in the USA.
There are 100 or more TLDs but the most commonly used ones are shown below:

• .co.uk
• .org.uk
• .me.uk
• .uk
• .com
• .net
• .org
• .biz
• .info

Your domain name, combined with a TLD, will produce a domain name such as (uktnet.co.uk).

Every domain name registered must be unique, and that name can only be registered to one person at a time.

When you register a domain name, you are often registering with a country specific domain name authority, UK domain are registered with Nominet which is the UK's domain name authority, and .com is registered with ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

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