Hi all,
Leslie, you are talking about two separate things here.
A server is a computer which sends data. When you join an Internet
Service Provider, (ISP), that ISP becomes your server. It gives you
your mail and your web data, and so on. You can run servers on your
computer like a web server so you can give out data to other
computers.
A domain is the name of your server, or sometimes the name you have
chosen as your own "domain" or territory from where your mail comes
and so on. Some people pay to have their own domain or territory.
That domain is theirs, no one else can use that domain's name and it
is unique to that person.
Here is an example. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My domain is
eznet, the territory from which I am sending my mail and where my web
site is located. I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am akp, a citizen of domain eznet.
The last "net" in my address indicates the type of territory eznet is.
Eznet is a network. Com is a commercial site, edu is educational, biz
is business, and so on.
Hope this helps.
Ann P.
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Ann K. Parsons
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp
"All that is gold does not glitter.
Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT
