A domain name can be purchased through various registrars such as VeriSign, Regester.com and many other domain name resellers. In the process of a domain name being puchased the ownership, administrative, techinical, billing, and internet provider information is requested and then assigned to the domain name being registered. The internet provider is the hosting servers number address. It looks similar to this 10.34.45.103. This number is what links your web site domain name to your hosting space that contains the floder for your web site pages. Web Catchers Design can set all of this up for you so you don't have to.

Servers such as AOL, Earthlink, and Compuserve, offer a certain amount of free personal web space that comes with your internet connection package sometimes. The problem with personal web space is that often you can not collect form data (surveys, polls, client information) that are custom designed to your specific needs. A form script (command) is needed to have this information sent to your email and some servers do not permit the use of scripts on personal Web Site space.

Next, a domain name also can not be assigned directly to your personal web space supplied by a server. Users will have to type in a long URL (address) to get to your site. For example something like this: