A domain name is a unique name that identifies your website on the World Wide Web. It is also the address (URL) that people will enter in the URL/ location bar to get access to a site. An example of a domain name is as shown below:
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http
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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (http) identifies the set of rules used to transmit files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web.
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://
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This states that the website URL will follow.
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www
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This prefix identifies this website as being part of the world wide web.
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adwordsempire.com
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This is the domain name of a website.
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