A domain name is an address to your place online. It speaks about you. It identifies you. The domain name is the door to your website. It identifies you and your website. If I want to find your website, your online kingdom, I need to know your web address, and that is your domain name.
There are many places to go online to get a domain name. First, you want to list five possible domain names that you want to own, because you will be able to see if that domain name is already in use. after doing a search for that domain name, the system will let you know if it is already taken, or not. It happens in just a matter a seconds. A domain name is used by just one person, or company. It is a piece of online real estate, that belongs to the user as long as the user buys it, and renews it when it is time to do so.
The domain name can only contain letters, numbers or a dash, but not symbols are allowed. It does not matter is the letters are in capitals or small case. The computer sees only numbers whereas the viewer sees an attractive domain name that is often a person's name, a company name, or a phrase describing someone's interest. One way to check to see if a name you like is taken, without doing a search for it on a domain name webpage, is to go to the address bar at the top of the brower window, and put in the domain name, and see where it takes you. If you use .com as the domain name exension, chances are, there is a .com name for a name you like. Try the same name with another TLD, top level domain, or domain name extension, like, .ws, .net, .org, .biz, .us, and you may not find the name you put in.
When buidling a website, you first need a domain name. No domain name means no website. The domain name in this way serves not just as an address for the website, but the key to open the doors to the site. From there, you go in and create what you want the visitors to find: text, video, pics, games, polls, advertisements, contact info, about me info, links, and more, to make your website a complete online kingdom, a place to go to, to visit regularly, or to use as a source of knowledge. You decide what the purpose of the website is, why you want people there, and what you want to offer them. If you want them to come back, you want to keep the website updated with new information, or features. You want to do things to your site to give it curb appeal, and get visitors to become regulars, if that is your desire.
