A web address identifies
the location of a specific web page on the Internet, such as
http://my-yahoodomains.blogspot.com.
A
domain name is the component of a
web address that identifies and locates an entity (such as a person,
business, or organization) presence on the Internet. In tech speak, the
domain name is the representation of the numeric
IP
Addresses assigned to individual computers.For example, the domain name in our sample web address is
yourdomain.com.
A domain extension is the suffix
at the end of a domain name, such as .com, .net., or .edu. If your domain
name is learn2yoga.com, for example, your domain extension is
.com. Most extensions represent a
web site category or a country. The extension .org, for example, stands for
organization and is typically used by noncommercial web sites; while
extensions like .uk are used in domain names registered in the United
Kingdom.
Yahoo! Domains
currently offers the domain extensions .com, .net, .org, .us, .biz, and
.info.
