domain names

As human beings most of us are not very good at remembering a long string of numbers. If we had to remember the IP addresses for all of the websites in the world we would not have much luck. This is why we have domain names, as we tend to be better at remembering words rather than millions of IP addresses. You can probably remember hundreds of domain names for e.g. www.seojunkies.com, www.emailjunkies.co.uk and this domain www.advansys.com etc. The .COM and .UK sections of these domain names are known as the top-level domain or first-level domain. There are hundreds of top-level domain names, including NET, ORG and BIZ, as well as exclusive 2 letter permutations for each country.

Every single name for the COM top-level domain (as per the example www.seojunkies.com) needs to be unique, yet there can be replicates across domains. For instance, www.advansys.com and www.advansys.biz are completely different machines. 

Every domain has a domain name server (DNS) that handles its requests, and there is a team maintaining the records in that DNS. Advansys provide professional zone and DNS record management with a secure infrastructure balanced across multiple servers in different locations to ensure maximum availability. For more information on DNS hosting and management software please contact us.