Where do you use domain names?

I realize the domain name system isn’t an easy concept to understand. It took bright computer geeks years to perfect it to the point we see it today, and although it works pretty well, the volunteers who maintain the Internet are still tweaking different parts to ensure that we’ll have enough domain names for the foreseeable future.

However, it’s important to have a basic grasp of what is going on with domain names because you simply can’t avoid them in the Internet. They’re everywhere, and you use them constantly everyday, whenever you send email or connect to a web site.

In fact, that’s where we’re going to turn our attention in the next archive since domain names play a huge part in forming email addresses and the URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) that identify web pages.