The Starting Point for any On-line Venture
The price stated is for 2 years registration.
This is the ideal addition to any site for anyone wanting to register, for example, the .com and .co.uk domain names for your project. It is an easy way to protect your on-line image.
What is a Domain Name?
 The easiest way to describe a domain name is as a personalised number plate.
It is unique to your site (like a number plate is unique to a car), tells us who owns it, where to find you and says something about who you are straight away.
Easy-to-remember domain names - like personalised number plates- are higher in value because more people want them, so they can demand a higher price.
In the same way that you can use the DVLA search system to find out if a number plate is still available, Coos Creations offers a domain name search service, allowing you find out if the domain you are looking for is free.
How do Domain Names Work?
Think of a Domain Name as directions along the Web to your Site
Domain Name Overview Domain names work by taking the domain name that you type into your browser, such as Internet Explorer or our personal favourite - Firefox and then going and finding where that domain name resides to either serve you up a web page, or send an email to someone at that domain name.
When you buy a domain name, your details (name, company name, address, etc.) are recorded in a database along with the domain name, the date that you purchased the name and the date you will be due to pay a "renewal fee" for the domain name. We offer you the right to use the name for between 1 year and 10 years before you have to pay this renewal fee. You choose the exact period of time when you register.
When you buy a domain name, it is said that you are "registering" it (since in fact all of your details are being registered, or recorded, in the central database). This is why the companies that let you buy domain names, including Coos Creations are called "registrars".
Pointing a Domain Name
You may have seen a number of sites that have multiple domain names pointing to it, for example a co uk domain name and a com domain name.
This works by using the same principles on the left, where our servers let your machine know where to look. This is called 'POINTING' because one of the names will 'point' to the other, meaning that you only have one site to maintain.
Domain Name Servers
After your domain name has been "registered", the location of your web site and / or your email address post box are sent to "domain name servers" ("DNS" or "name servers") throughout the world.
The process takes up to 48 hours to distribute this information - and it is a one-off task.
You remember we talked about domain names being a substitute for IP addresses? Well, there has to be somewhere where a computer can go to find out what IP address is associated with a particular domain name, since computers use IP addresses to locate data around the Internet. This association information between domain names and IP addresses is stored on these name servers.
Each name server is responsible for maintaining the master record of the information associated with certain domain names.
A domain name record requires two name servers: a primary name server (also known as a domain name server, or DNS for short) and a secondary name server. Name servers are scattered all over the Internet - there are thousands of them - and each one passes on requests for information ("where's the web site?") until it reaches the primary name server, which replies ("it's over there... see? Where that sign is pointing to") and maps the domain name to the IP address, letting your computer find the right web site or email post box.
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