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What is
domainjourney.com?
We own alot of domains, we register them when we have ideas! and sometimes we inherit them from our clients who no longer want them. One by one we make relevant websites for every domain we own. Visitors often make offers on our domains, and we've sold a few. So please feel free to contact us about any of our domains. Our name is inspired by the journey of every domain. An
added francophone meaning is that "journey" is a
homonym of the "journée" meaning day.
What is a domain?
A domain name is the unique name of a computer on the
Internet that distinguishes it from the other systems on the
network. Every website, email account, etc, on the Internet
is hosted on at least one server. Each of which has a unique
IP address which is nothing but a set of numbers, such as
"123.123.123.123". To access a particular internet
service, one can specify its IP address in an appropriate
application, such as an FTP client; however because it is
difficult to remember numbers, an IP address can be
associated with a (a domain name, such as "domainjourney.com".
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names also provide a persistent address for some
service when it is necessary to move to a different
server, which would have a different IP address. Each
set of letters and numbers between the dots is called
a label in parlance of the domain name service (DNS).
There are some rules about the size and make up of
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Each must start with a
letter or number, and then may be made up of letters,
numbers, and hyphens, to a maximum of 63 characters. These
are the rules imposed by the way names are looked up
("resolved") by DNS. Some top level domains (see
below) impose more rules, like a minimum length, on some
labels. Fully qualified names are sometimes written with a
final dot.
Translating numeric
addresses to alphabetical ones, domain names allow Internet
users to localize and visit websites. Additionally since
more than one IP address can be assigned to a domain name,
and more than one domain name assigned to an IP address, one
server can have multiple roles, and one role can be spread
among multiple servers.
Examples
The following examples illustrates the difference
between a URL and a domain name:
URL: http://www.example.com/
Server name: www.example.com
Domain name: example.com
Subdomain: www
Second level domain: example
Top level domain: com
As a general rule, the IP
address and the server name are interchangeable. For most
internet services, the server will not have any way to know
which was used. The big exception to this is for web
addresses. The explosion of interest in the web means that
there are far more websites than servers. To accommodate
this the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) specifies that
the client tells the server which name is being used. This
way one server, with one IP address, can provide different
sites for different domain names.
For example, the server at 192.0.34.166 handles all of the
following sites:
www.example.com
www.example.net
www.example.org
Top-level domains
Every domain name ends in a top-level domain (TLD) name,
which is always either one of a small list of general names,
or a ISO-3166 two character country code.
Examples of (gTLD)
extensions are
Official assignment
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
has overall responsibility for managing the DNS. It controls
the root domain, delegating control over each top-level
domain to a domain name registry. For ccTLDs, the domain
registry is typically controlled by the government of that
country. ICANN has a consultation role in these domain
registries but is in no position to regulate the terms and
conditions and the operations of how a domain name is
allocated or who allocates it in each of these country level
domain registries. Since generic top-level domains (gTLDs)
are governed directly under ICANN, all terms and conditions
are defined by ICANN with the cooperation of the gTLD
registries.
Domain names which are
theoretically leased can be considered in the same way as
real estate, due to a significant impact on online brand
building, advertising, search engine optimization, etc.
Generic domain names -
problems arising out of unregulated name selection
Within a particular top-level domain, parties are generally
free to select an unallocated domain name as their own. For
generic or commonly used names, this may sometimes lead to
the use of a domain name which is inaccurate or misleading.
This problem can be seen with regard to the ownership or
control of domain names for a generic product or service.
By way of illustration,
there has been tremendous growth in the number and size of
literary festivals around the world in recent years. In this
context, currently a generic domain name such as
literary.org is available to the first literary festival
organisation which is able to obtain registration, even if
the festival in question is very young or obscure. Some
critics would argue that there is greater amenity in
reserving such domain names for the use of, for example, a
regional or umbrella grouping of festivals. Related issues
may also arise in relation to non-commercial domain names.
Commercial resale of
domain names
An economic effect of the widespread usage of domain names
has been the resale market of generic domain names that has
sprung up in the last decade. Certain domains, especially
those related to business, gambling, pornography, and other
commercially lucrative fields have become very much in
demand to corporations and entrepreneurs due to their
intrinsic value in attracting clients. For example, the
domain name sex.com was stolen from its rightful owner by
means of a forged transfer instruction. During the height of
the dot-com era, the domain was earning millions of dollars
per month in advertising revenue from the large influx of
visitors that arrived daily. Two long-running US lawsuits
resulted, one against the thief and one against the domain
registrar VeriSign.
One of the reasons for the
value of domain names is that even without advertising or
marketing, they attract clients seeking services and
products. Furthermore, generic domain names such as Rent.com
or Books.com are extremely easy for potential customers to
remember, increasing the probability that they become repeat
customers or regular clients.
Although the current domain
market is nowhere as strong as it was during the dot-com
heyday, it remains quite strong. Annually tens of millions
of dollars change hands due to the resale of domains.
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