# Domain

Concept · [Cloud, hosting and security](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cloud)

Also called: domain name, URL, web address, website address, registrar, domain registrar, custom domain

The address people type to reach your site, such as example.com. You rent it by the year, and it is separate from [hosting](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hosting).

**For example:** You buy the domain for your bakery's name, then point it at the place where your site is [hosted](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hosting) so the address opens your site.

## Connects to (11)

- [Hosting](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hosting): Renting space on a server so your site or app can be reached on the internet at all hours.
- [Static site](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/static-site): A website made of fixed pages that look the same for every visitor.
- [Deployment](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/deployment): Putting the latest version of your app onto the live servers where real users can reach it.
- [DNS](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dns): Domain Name System.
- [HTTPS](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/https): The secure version of the way browsers talk to websites.
- [Permalink](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/permalink): A web address for one specific page or item that is meant never to change, so links to it keep working.
- [Microsite](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/microsite): A small website, separate from an organization's main site, built for one event, campaign or product.
- [301 redirect](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/redirect-301): An instruction that sends visitors and search engines from an old web address to a new one permanently, so old links keep working and…
- [GoDaddy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/godaddy): A company that sells domain names, along with web hosting and business email.
- [Google Workspace](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/google-workspace): Google's paid set of work apps for a company: Gmail on the company's own domain, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Meet, with admin…
- [Gmail](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/gmail): Google's email service.

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