What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is a name (an identification label) that defines a realm of the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). These names appear as a component of a website's uniform resource locator (URL), e.g. serverworld.com.au. Domain Names are also referred to as Domains and Hostnames.What are the benefits of owning a Domain?
- You will project a professional image and level the playing field with larger organisations
- Distinguish yourself from competitors with a unique identity
- Build branding (recognition)
- Attract traffic to your site
- Save money on stationary. No need to re-print business cards and letterheads when you change ISPs. Your email address remains the same.
- Increase your credibility with your own address yourname@yourdomain.com.au instead of using a free or your ISPs email service (yourname@yourisp.com.au or yourname@hotmail.com)
- You now can have a fixed address, and yet you can move office as often as you like! Just update your website to reflect your new office address. Your domain remains constant.
Are you paying too much for your domain?
Buyer Beware! Some Australian Registrars are charging as much as $140 for registration of a .au domain - some web design firms charge even more!- Our prices start from as low as $12 per year
- Some web designers and ISPs "bundle" your domain with other hosting products - how much are you really paying? $200?
- Some cowboys send you misleading letters and emails - don't renew unless you know it's a legitimate renewal request!
How do I get one?
Click here and check if your desired Domain Name is available and you can get started instantly!I've seen it cost much more - why so cheap?
Server World simply charges domains at wholesale prices. There is no need to inflate the pricing of domains.I've already got a domain, but it's with another provider, how do I use your services instead?
If you have a .au domain - good news - it's FREE to transfer your domain to Server World! To transfer your domain to Server World is easy - simply order any of our hosting services and we will ask for your existing domain details for transfer. Our website has an online transfer tool.How do I start getting emails to my domain?
You will need to setup a hosting account with us. Server World has hosting accounts that offer full email and website hosting starting from as little as $1.08 per week. Click here for our hosting plans - and start getting emails today!What are Top Level Domains (TLDs)?
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. They are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless. The first-level set of domain names are the top-level domains (TLDs), including the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as the prominent domains com, net and org, and the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and third-level domain names that are typically open for reservation by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run web sites, or create other publicly accessible Internet resources. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.What is a URL?
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are the textual or numerical addresses of specific pieces of information on the Internet. Individual Internet host computers use domain names as host identifiers, or hostnames. Hostnames are the leaf labels in the domain name system usually without further subordinate domain name space. Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for Internet resources such as web sites (e.g., en.wikipedia.org).Some more Domain trivia
Domain names are also used as simple identification labels to indicate ownership or control of a resource. Such examples are the realm identifiers used in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the DomainKeys used to verify DNS domains in e-mail systems, and in many other Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.
Domain names are often referred to simply as domains and domain name registrants are frequently referred to as domain owners, although domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.
