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fearspiritual:
First of all you need to understand that you never actually own a domain name.

But before I explain this I need to go into some details about exactly what a domain name actually is. A domain name is simply a text phrase that is connected to an IP address. An IP address is sply a physical address of a property on the internet. These addresses are a series of numbers. Thus is great for computers but next to impossible for humans to use.

So some committees came up with the idea of linking text phrases to these long numerical addresses. They went on to define a number of top level domains which were suppose to identify the kind of buisness the domain name is.

usefulessential:
We had ,com for commercial websites … . Net for networks … .org for organizations (primarily nonprofit organizations) … .edu for educational group like schools and universities … and .gov for websites operated by governmental organizations. Then we added .info as a general informational website. And in the last few years we have added hundreds more like .realtor or .bank or. Xxx and many many more.

shummywilkins:
Each of these TLDs are managed by a different organization that establishes rules about who can and who cannot create a website under their TLD. You may be confused why it is called a top level domain when it comes at the end of the domain name. This has to do with how information is processed in computer applications. But that is a topic outside if these question.

fearspiritual:
My point here is that we will never run out of possibilities for domain names. With all the top level domains already added and the likelyhood that many more will be added in the future there will be simply too many options available for you to get pretty much any domain name you want.

usefulessential:
While today we may be fairly focused on the .com top level domain extension, in the future this is likely to change as we get use to seeing countless variations of endings appended to a domain name. Of course we will also face a higher lever of confusion when we have hundreds of domains with the same name and different top level domain extensions. Should be an interesting world.

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