A domain name is a special address that you are able to purchase from a registrar company. All devices which are linked to the Internet, such as web servers, have numeric addresses, or IP addresses, which are pretty difficult to remember, because of this the domain platform was created as an easy means to distinguish a certain website on the Internet. As a result, your site is available at www.domain.com rather than 123.123.123.123, for example. A domain name has two parts - the Second-Level Domain, that is the actual site name that you can pick, as well as the Top-Level Domain, that is the extension - .com, .net, .org and so on. You're able to register your new domain via any kind of registrar or migrate an existing domain between registrars in a few simple steps. In the event that you choose to do the latter, your domain name will be renewed automatically by the gaining registrar the moment the transfer process is carried out. In addition to the generic Top-Level Domains, there're country-code ones too. Many of them can be registered by anybody, while some others require regional presence or even a business license.