Domain Name for a website: What is your website’s Domicilium citandi et executandi and why is it called a URL?

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| Updated June 23, 2023

Each website has a very unique address. In fact, it’s just like your home address or the Domicilium citandi et executandi that you would include in a legal contract. This unique identifier makes sure that if someone needs to get directly to your website they can do so easily.  A domain name can also be called a URL, an abbreviation for Uniform Resource Locator.

An example of a URL:

https://simplewebsiteservice.ca

Breaking URL down

The first part of the URL is the scheme, which indicates the protocol that the browser must use to request the resource (a protocol is a set method for exchanging or transferring data around a computer network). Usually for websites the protocol is HTTPS or HTTP (its unsecured version).
Next follows the authority which is separated from the scheme by the character pattern ://. Is the domain (e.g. www.example.com) This indicates which web server is being requested. Usually this is a domain name, but an IP address may also be used (but this is rare as it is much less convenient)

Purchasing a domain name for your website

You have to purchase and register your domain name for your website. You normally have to pay annually to keep your domain name. Most domain sellers will charge a discounted rate for the first year.  Costs range from $12-$20 per year, along with a registration fee of around $80.

How to register your new domain name:

  1. Check the availability of the domain name you want by typing it into the domain search box provided by the company registering your domain name.

  2. Select a domain name from the available options.

  3. Specify your preferred language, registrant name and legal type. Read and accept any T&C’s.

  4. Complete your purchase (Pay for the registration)

  5. You can use your domain name once your registration is approved.

A brief history of domain names

The practice of using a simple memorable abstraction of a host’s numerical address on a computer network dates back to the ARPANET era, before the advent of today’s commercial Internet. In the early network, each computer on the network retrieved the hosts file (host.txt) from a computer at SRI (now SRI International) which mapped computer hostnames to numerical addresses. The rapid growth of the network made it impossible to maintain a centrally organized hostname registry and in 1983 the Domain Name System was introduced on the ARPANET and published by the Internet Engineering Task Force as RFC 882 and RFC 883.

[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name]

Domain names today

Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) manages the top-level development and architecture of the Internet domain name space. It authorizes domain name registrars, through which domain names may be registered and reassigned.

[SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name]

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