Domain Names
Looking professional on the web starts by having your own, memorable, domain name and then adding email boxes to it.
You visited either www.easywebtools.co.uk or www.start2day.co.uk and we created email addresses that match them sales@easywebtools.co.uk or sales@start2day.co.uk. All you have to remember is Easy Web Tools, and we'll make it easy to get where you want to go.
In the same way you need your own domain name and to help you on this task we have made this easy to do find my ideal domain name which is on our home page.
A domain name registrar (example .co.uk is Nominet) is an organization or commercial entity, accredited by a generic top-level domain registry (gTLD) and/or by a country code top-level domain (ccTLD) registry, to manage the reservation of Internet domain names in accordance with the guidelines of the designated domain name registries and offer such services to the public.
Any machine connected to the internet has an IP address: Xbox games, cell phones, fax machines, and even soda pop dispensers have IP addresses. In every case, the IP address acts both like a car license plate and like a telephone number: it shows ownership, allows the machine to be located by other machines, and empowers authorities to track and protect people's safety, if need be.
IP address is not the same as www domain name addresses:
For nearly every web server, the IP address is invisibly translated into a natural English "domain name" for ease of use. But technically speaking, the IP address is the true identifier of a web server...the domain name is simply a redirector pointer to help people find the web server.
- Your ISP has a block of IP addresses to lend:
Internet authorities allot IP address numbers to regional internet service providers in large blocks. Those ISP's, in turn, assign these IP addresses to every server and every user internet user who logs onto the internet. Yes, there are millions of IP addresses active at any instant.
More about IP addresses:
Before the World Wide Web became popular in the 1990's, every computer was assigned a fixed ("static" IP address). But with so many millions of internet users today, ISP's now choose to "lend" IP addresses from a pool of numbers. This is much like dealer license plates being shared amongst test drive vehicles at a car dealership. This loaning of IP addresses is called "dynamic IP addressing", and is proven to work better for individual users.
Often, it is possible to identify where a user is in the world by their IP address.
Within office networks, each office computer is given an "internal IP address". As soon as an office computer accesses the internet, it then borrows the office's main IP address. This works much like office telephone numbers: a unique internal extension number is assigned to every user, but as soon as any person dials out of the office, call display will only show the office's main phone number. This is known as internal vs. external IP addressing, and is a necessary technique to reduce the number of IP addresses on the internet.
As of May 2008, the internet uses IP addressing standard Version 4 (aka "IPv4"). There is a new generation of addresses being designed called IPv6. The biggest change is in the number of available addresses. Instead of 4.3 billion possible IP addresses, IPv6 will bring us 34,000,000,000,000,000,000 billion possible IP addresses.