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What Is A Domain Name?

December 14, 2008 by dashaver

A domain name is composed of name and two or three-letter extension separated by a period. The extension could be .com, .net, .org, .edu, .fr, .uk, etc. There is an extension for every country but .com is most common. Your website could be http://youramericanbusiness.com. This domain will also be used in your email address such as
your-name@youramericanbusiness.com

A domain refers to a device on the Internet. This device will be identified to your computer by its IP address. An IP address has a numerical format such as 198.158.1.1 since these are not handy for people to use or remember they are translated into domain names by the DNS (domain name server)

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What about the www.?

March 19, 2009 by background check (not verified), 1 year 23 weeks ago
Comment id: 117

How does the www. affect the dns versus the non www. version? Any difference?

There is no difference,

March 19, 2009 by dashaver, 1 year 23 weeks ago
Comment id: 118

There is no difference, however you should be consistent. You can also change them all to be this same using canonical URL’s
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalization/ You can also do this with htaccess http://www.dashaver.com/htaccess-301-Redirect

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