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Your website will be an important part of your business or organization. Whether your site is a simple brochure or the primary sales avenue for your company, the name you give it is important. The domain name you choose will be as much of an investment as the name of your business. It will be printed on business cards, advertising and packaging and will stay with you for a long time.
Cold Spring will work with you to find a domain name appropriate for your site. We'll purchase the domain, listing you as the owner and take care of all the technical requirements including yearly renewals. Our charge for this service is just $15/year.
How does the system work?
A domain name is the Internet equivilent of your phone number. It's unique for your website and thus allows anyone in the world to located your site - that's why a web address is called a URL, a Universal Resource Locator.
When someone types your domain name into their browser, the browser requests the location of the files that make up your website from the Domain Name System (DNS). The DNS resolves your domain name into an IP address, that is the actual physical location of the computer hosting your website. That computer is a web server and, in the case of our web server, is in a secure building in Atlanta, GA. When the browser request reaches the web server, the server delivers the requested files to the browser over extremely high-speed connections. The browser then reads the files and displays them as a single page.