What is a domain name?

Your website’s domain is what people enter into the address bar on their browsers to point it toward your website.
Every website on the internet has an IP address. These addresses point to a website’s location.

A structure called the Domain Name System (DNS) translates those IP addresses into names that are simple to remember. Those names are called domain names.

When someone types a domain into a browser, it gets routed through a DNS server. That server translates the name to figure out which IP address it points to. Then it grabs the data for that website and delivers it to the browser. This process happens in a matter of seconds, letting you find and view a website fast.

In order to have a website you must purchase a domain name, pay annually to own the domain, design a website yourself or pay to have it designed, and pay monthly, semi annually or annually to have it hosted on a server.

What is Google?
Google is a popular search engine. It scans the internet to find web pages that are relevant to the words you have typed into a box on the screen.