To understand the importance of domain names, and our role in establishing your Web presence, please read the following information:

1. What is the World Wide Web about?
2. What are Domain names, and how do they connect users to the Web?
3. What are domain names and Websites good for?
4. How do customers use their domain names and Websites to make users happy?

1. What is the World Wide Web about?

The World Wide Web (WWW), known simply as the Web, is an ever-evolving collection of documents located on the Internet and stored on computers found throughout the world. These documents may contain any type of information, including text, images, sound, movie clips and more.

Servers

The computers that store Web documents are called servers. These computers run special software that lets you connect to Web documents. You are viewing a document stored on our servers, ns1.domainsite.com and ns2.domainsite.com, right now.

Browsers

The software that lets you view documents on the Web is called a browser. You need to be running a browser to read a document just like you need to be running a word processor to view a letter or a report created by that word processor. Browsers enable you to view text, images, and movies as well as to hear sounds. The browser you are using now, whether it is Internet Explorer, AOL, or Juno, allows you to access this document.

Navigating the Web

Many organizations have their own servers. When you connect to a server, the first document you view is called the home page; you saw our home page when you typed in www.domainsite.com to your browser. Businesses, government agencies, schools, even individuals have home pages to which you can connect. Every home page has a Web address so that you can find it, called a URL (Uniform Resource Locator); our home page's URL is www.domainsite.com.

Using Hypertext Documents

Most documents on the Web are what known as hypertext documents. That is, they are documents that contain links to other documents. These links may be text that is highlighted in some way, or they may be images. For example, you used a link called "Why register a domain name?" on our home page to get here. When you clicked on the link, the document you are now reading was displayed.

Navigating Hypertext Documents

Thus, if you click on a link with your mouse, you will be transported to another document. That document may be stored on the same Web server or another Web server somewhere else in this world. Moving about from one document to another or from one Web server to another is called "surfing the net."

2. What are domain names, and how do they connect users to the Web?

A domain name is a way to identify and locate computers and resources, such as Websites, connected to the Internet. Spot Domain LLC uses the domain name domainsite.com to identity its Website and associated resources, such as this text document.

Every company or organization that wants to be on the Internet will register a domain name for use as their on-line identity or name that users will use to access on-line services such as the organization's Website or email system. You located our Website by typing our domain name domainsite.com into your browser.

For example, Spot Domain LLC, our company, registered the domain name domainsite.com so that users on the Internet can access our Website, purchase our products, and send email to Spot Domain LLC employees at our various email addresses, such as support@domainsite.com. Much like a company's name, logo, or 800-number, a domain name has marketing value when customers can easily remember and associate it with the organization.Since over 11 million domain names have already been registered worldwide, it can be difficult to find a good domain name. We can help you find domain names and will help you through the processes of registering a domain and setting up a Website for your business or organization.

Each domain name corresponds to numeric IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. An IP address takes the form of 4 groups of numbers, each one between 0 and 255, separated by periods. The Internet uses the numeric IP address to send data. For instance, you are currently connecting to a World Wide Web server with the domain name "domainsite.com," but as far as the network is concerned, you are connecting to the server with the IP address associated with our domain name.

The Domain Name System completes the task of matching domain names to IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. The Domain Name System is a collection of databases that contain information about domain names and their corresponding IP addresses. Domain name servers are computers that translate domain names to IP addresses. This system allows Internet users to deal with the more intuitive domain names, rather than having to remember a series of numbers.

3. What are domain names and Websites good for?

Two words - Sales and Visibility

According to the Yankee Group, online retail sales have grown from $11.5 billion in 1998 to $125.6 billion in 2003.

With greater frequency, individuals and business are looking to the Web for purchasing products and services, and they do it because it's convenient. Furthermore, merchants are finding that it's not expensive to get their "store" online. And that store can be up and taking orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Even if you are not in business per se, a domain name will make you visible to the millions of users on the Web. Without a domain name, users cannot identify the resources you have to offer on the Internet. Many individuals use domain names to connect with like-minded individuals "surfing the Web."

The best domain names are easy to remember, and the best Websites are easy to use. Users look to resources on the Web that are efficient.

The process of obtaining an easy-to-remember domain name and creating a user-friendly Website can be broken into 3 stages.

1. Choose a domain name - Find a name that will best describe your Website. This name is how people will find you when they go onto the World Wide Web. Once you have found the right name for your Website and you are sure it is available to purchase, then you need to come to us and secure the name so others cannot use it.
2. Find a company to host your Website - It is one thing to register your domain name but it is equally important to attach that name to a Web server with us so that you have a place to put up your Website. We offer a wide range of Web hosting plans to choose from.
3. Build your Website - There are 2 ways you could build your Website.

   A) Buy a program like Microsoft Frontpage, Adobe Golive or Macromedia Dreamweaver learn how to use the program and build your own Website.

   B) Enlist our services to do it for you.

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