1] Free web page –
If you don’t wish to invest money in your private website you can create a free webpage in several ways, either you can create a blog page in blogger.com or a page in facebook.com, more details in chapter number 9.
But if you wish to really scale up in business and wish to have more controls and multiple features in your web presence you may buy a domain for your private website, for e.g. www.example.com
Let us divide this domain name in 3 parts, the first part www is a short form of world wide web, in short it means the web, which is used as a pretext to your website name, in the same manner we have mr.xyz or Mrs.xyz for the internet we address a website name with a pretext of www, hence many people also term a website name as Web Address.
The second part is the Domain name, a name absolutely of your choice, either its your personal name like willsmith.com or a company name you need to have like darkchocolates.com
The third part .com is a domain extension, initially there were only few extensions like .com, .net, .edu, .org but now there are hundreds of extensions …some are country wise and some are general words. Country wise examples like For India we have .in, for china its .cn, for uk it is .uk, for japan it is .jp, .au for Australia, .nz for newzealand, .ru for Russia .eu for Europe and so on.
Similarly many private companies have also come up with popular terms and you can buy them too, for examples .academy, .accountants, .apartments, .auto, .bargains, .beer, .bike, .business, .cab, .cafe, .christmas, .clothing, .cloud, .cooking, .dance, .dating, .football, .lol, .love, and many more.
Now where to buy these domain names. One can buy domain names from website service provider, or any sub registrar or an accredited registrar. You can buy them online. You can search buy a domain name in google or bing and you may compare prices and other services offered by different companies. The prices offered are for one year and you have to renew your domain every year if you wish to continue, please check the pricing properly as many companies offer at a very low price for the first year but when you wish to renew for next year and subsequent years they may have exorbitant pricing.
Ok Now for your general knowledge , these companies who sell domain names are basically registrars who are registered with icann registry. There are also five regional registries for Africa – ANIC, America, Asia-pacific, Latin America and Europe.
ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN is the prime organisation who manages all the domain names in the world. A company is required to obtain an accreditation from ICANN to sell domain names and become a registrar, these registrars allow small companies and individual website service providers to sell domains to you in fact you can also become a sub-registrar and start selling domains to your clients. You can do this with many sites example resellerclub.com
Once you buy a domain name you need web hosting.
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