The\u00a0difference between URLs and domain names!<\/p>\n
Take a detailed look at the different parts of a domain name<\/a>, using this site as an example. This site\u2019s domain name is Whonami.com \u2013 you can check this easily by looking at the URL or location bar of your browser. There you should see the entire URL, which should look like this:http:\/\/www.whonami.com\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n The \u201cWhonami.com\u201d portion is the actual domain name. Anything listed after that is used to identify specific content within that site. Much like the organizational system of a filing cabinet, website content is arranged in a hierarchical system. For example, if you wanted to direct someone to a specific document in room full of filing cabinets, you would direct them to a specific filing cabinet, a folder within that cabinet, and finally the desired paper. So your directions could look something like this: English Cabinet 1\/2007 Folder\/Page 2.<\/p>\n In this analogy, \u201cEnglish\u201d is like the \u201chttp:\/\/\u201d in a URL. \u201cEnglish\u201d tells the reader that the language used in the \u2018directions\u2019 is English. Similarly, the \u201chttp:\/\/\u201d tells your computer what language or \u2018protocol\u2019 to use when communicating with a website. Websites generally use http which is the \u2018hypertext transfer protocol\u2019. The : simply separates the protocol from the rest of the address and the \/\/ indicates that a connection is being attempted.<\/p>\n \u201cCabinet 1\u201d is like the domain name whonami.com, a specific location amid millions of other websites.<\/p>\n Each step after Cabinet1 tells the reader how to locate the specific page they need. Everything after whonami.com tells a computer how to find specific data (or content) to display.<\/p>\n Many URL\u2019s have \u2018www\u2019 at the beginning of them. For instance, the Whonami\u00a0URL would be http:\/\/www.whonami.com<\/a>. The \u2018www\u2019 is simply another level to the domain name (also known as a subdomain), but from a server standpoint is not actually necessary.\u00a0 For instance, if you went to http:\/\/whonami.com<\/a>, you would still arrive at the website.\u00a0 \u2018www\u2019 stands for World Wide Web and someone at some point thought it was beneficial to include it.\u00a0 For some time there were rumors that www2 indicated that a web site was using the new Internet when in fact it was simply a different subdomain.\u00a0 So long as you set it up correctly on the server, you could have anythingyouwant.yourdomain.com and point that to wherever you want.\u00a0 For example, to go to the English version of wikipedia, you would go to http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n (Written by iGoldrush)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0difference between URLs and domain names! Take a detailed look at the different parts of a domain name, using this site as an example. This site\u2019s domain name is Whonami.com \u2013 you can check this easily by looking at the URL or location bar of your browser. There you should see the entire URL, which … <\/p>\n