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Gustavo Jordan
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What is a Domain name anyway

A domain name? if you have or want a website, you have heard that word before, but what is it anyway?

A domain name is the name used to identify your website across the Internet. You need four things to allow anyone to find your website: a domain name, a Public IP Address (International access to a server), a hosting account and your own website.

Domain names are important because it is easier to remember a name, than a series of numbers, twelve to be exact. This hard to remember numbers, are the public IP address of your server website, and identify every server around the world.

Your domain name could be any combination of letters and numbers without spaces.
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