A domain name is a special address that you can acquire from a registrar company. All the units which are linked to the Web, such as web servers, possess numeric addresses, or IP addresses, which are rather hard to remember, because of this the domain name platform was introduced as an easy means to identify some website on the Web. As a result, your website is available at www.domain.com instead of 123.123.123.123, for example. Your domain name has two different parts - the Second-Level Domain, that is the actual site name that you are able to choose, and the Top-Level Domain, that's the extension - .com, .net, .org and so on. You'll be able to register your new domain from any registrar or transfer an active domain name between registrars in a couple of simple steps. Whenever you decide to do the latter, your domain shall be renewed instantly by the gaining registrar as soon as the transfer process is finalized. In addition to the generic Top-Level Domains, there're country-code ones too. Many of them can be registered by anyone, while some others need regional presence or a business license.