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When starting a new work at home business it is very easy to become consumed by it. We spend so much time trying to get the business up and running that we may end up becoming burned out and lose our motivation. There is so much to learn and Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0in;mso-para-margin-right:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0in;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}Everywebsite has its own domain name which identifies one or more IP addresses. Adistinction is made between top leveldomain (TLD) and second level domain(SLD). Suppose you have a have website called MyAwesomeWebsite.com then the .com part is the TLD part of the URLand MyAwesomeWebsite the SLD. These days it is very easy to purchase domains on the internet unlike during the 1980s when the term domain name wasintroduced.When themilitary during the 1960s first began connecting computers to each other overWide Area Networks a need for unique identifiers was born. Enter the IP address(Internet Protocol) in the early 1970s. The IP address of any website is astring of numbers and as you may know simply typing this number into your webbrowser will take you to the requested page. With theever increasing amount of network users a demand for a simpler, moreuser-friendly system was called for. Enter the Domain Name System (DNS). This system, developed in the 1984 at theUniversity of Wisconsin, allows for a DNS server to assign a name to an IP number. This allowed forthe use of website addresses which consisted of words instead of numbers. Incase you would ever get a DNS server error when trying to access a website youmay find that if you were to know theIP address you can still access the page!Now thatwebsites could have names in plain English a standard had to be agreed on. In1985 7 top level domains where introduced: GOV, EDU, COM, MIL, ORG, NET andINT. The very first registered commercial domain name was Symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc. in 1985.Initially the registration of domain names was free and the number of newdomains increased slowly during the mid 80s. By 1992 only 15,000 dot.comdomains were registered.The 90s sawa boom of commercial activity on the internet and the domain name registrationbecame a paid service. This also led to the formation of a non-profitregulatory body overseeing the domain name system: the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This organization sees to it that there is a healthycompetition between companies in the domain registration industry which is hugeconsidering that at present more than 19million domain names are registered. These days domain names can be bigbusiness, e.g. in 2010 Sex.com sold for $13 million.The freedomof choosing a domain name has led to several at times unintended hilariousdomain names. See if you can spot the problems with the website for WhoRepresents (whorepresents.com) and for the Therapists Network(therapistfinder.com). In such cases it is sometimes best to buy a new domain.Experts Exchange chose experts-exchange.com.Prior to that their domain did not feature a hyphen between experts andexchange.One wouldthink that with over 19 million addresses available in 2011 the demand is satisfied.Not so. ICANN is now offering companies to apply for a top domain of their ownchoosing. However, it does come at a price: $185,000 per domain name. It is tobe expected that soon you will be able to visit websites such aswindows.microsoft and iPod.apple.
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