what is domain?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain

In information technology, the term domain can refer to:

* a machine or virtual host on the Internet; do not confuse the name of a domain - its "domain name" - with the domain itself
* a Windows Server domain, a centrally-managed group of computers using the Windows operating-system
* a broadcast domain in computer networking
* an application domain - the kinds of purposes for which users use a software system
* a software engineering domain - a field of study that defines a set of common requirements, terminology, and functionality for any software program constructed to solve a problem in that field. See also domain-specific programming languages.
* a CLR application domain, a mechanism for separating executed applications (similar to a process)
* In Database Theory, a data domain is a set of all permitted atomic values.
* a workstation operating system called Domain/OS.

* a group of computers on a network that share a common directory or storage location.

Answer 2

Domain Name is the name of any website.

Example, when you say you have opened www.yahoo.dom, you mean to say that you have opened the domain named www.yahoo.com

Simple as that.

Answer 3

See below link for an extensive list for "domain".

Answer 4

In web-world, the simplest analogy: a folder/a directory someplace on a server and named "somethingororther.com" so when you type it in your browser, it hits that folder wherever it is and finds in it a page called "index.html" or so and shows it to you.

Answer 5

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http://www.allbusiness.com/technology/internet-domain-names/1641-1.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/domain_name.html
http://www.keytlaw.com/urls/whatisdomain.htm