What is a Domain

Whether you're just starting your site or making the final touches on it .

Getting a domain is a critical step in getting visitors to your website .

You've probably heard a lot of different terms related to this domain domain name , URL .

Web address .

Now simply put all of those are correct .

Your domain name is your web address and your web address is a URL .

It might help to know that URL actually stands for uniform resource locator , but you don't need to memorize that in the same way that you can use coordinates to locate a point on a map .

You can enter a URL into your internet browser and find a website on the internet .

A website is essentially just a group of files , images and graphics that have been assembled into an orderly design altogether , we call that content and website content is securely stored and hosted on large data banks called servers .

The domain is just an identifier .

People can distribute it and find it through a search engine and once someone has your domain , they can use it to find your content as a beautifully designed website to demonstrate .

Our domain is www.squarespace.com .

Now , if I open up my browser and I type that URL into the address bar .

There's a quick communication to our servers where the Squarespace website is found and served to my computer .

This is the basic way that every domain and website work together .

There are a lot of companies online where you can purchase domains .

But at Squarespace , we try to make building a beautiful website as simple as possible .

And we feel that registering a domain shouldn't be a challenge either .

You can visit domains.squarespace.com and register your own domain and then connect it to your Squarespace site just like that .

If you have any other questions , we're always here to help .