Digital West Networks

DNS FAQ

DNS Basics for Business Folks

	Running a business	Having a Website	How is it maintained?
What are we called?	Business License / Permit Obtained from City Registers your company as a business entity with a specific name	Domain Name Obtained from a "Registrar" - a company that registers Domain Names Registers your domain name as belonging to you and keeps someone else from taking your Domain Name	Pay an annual fee
How do people find us?	Yellow Pages Ad Allows customers to look up your name and translate it to a number (in this case, think of that number as being your street address)	DNS (Domain Name Services) Provider Allows customers to look up your name and translate it to a number (in this case, an IP address - the "street addresses" of the Internet)	Pay a monthly fee
Where is the business located?	Rent/Lease office or warehouse space from landlord Allows your business to have a constant physical presence	Web Site Hosting company Allows your business to have a constant Internet presence on their Servers (computers)	Pay a monthly fee