What is this Domain Name?

The term domain name has multiple related meanings:
A name that identifies a computer or computers on the Internet. These names appear as a component of a Web site's URL, e.g. en.wikipedia.org. This type of domain name is also called a hostname.The product that domain name registrars provide to their customers. These names are often called registered domain names.Names used for other purposes in the Domain Name System (DNS), for example the special name which follows the @ sign in an email address, or the Top-level domain names like .com, or the names used by the Session Initiation Protocol (VoIP), or DomainKeys.They are sometimes colloquially (and incorrectly) referred to by marketers as "web addresses".

 

The following example illustrates the difference between a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and a domain name:URL: http://www.powerpoint-presentation.blogspot.com/index.html Domain name: http://www.powerpoint-presentation.blogspot.com/Registered domain name: blogspot.com

 

What is a host name?A host name is an Internet address or domain name with a prefix. For example, a host name of the domain name yourdomainname.com may be "example.yourdomainname.com."You can use domain forwarding to redirect the "www" host name of your domain to another URL (web address). For other host names, you can use a CNAME record to point to other web addresses. If you wish to point your host names to static IP addresses, you can use A records.