What is the difference between domain name and host name?

[pooja escorts]

What is the difference between domain name and host name?

[manoharparakh]

Host : Is the provider who is hosting your website is hosted. These people rent the server space to host a website or an application and make it globally available.Web hosting is a place where people store their websites, Web Applications, Backup files, Database, and more. Think of it as a house where you store all your stuffs; you store computer files (HTML, documents, images, videos, etc) in a web host. More often than not, the term “web hosting” refers to the company that rent out their computer/servers to store your website (hence the word, host) and providing Internet connectivity so that other computers can access to the files on your website.

Domain : A domain name is your website name. A domain name is the address where Internet users can access your website. A domain name is used for finding and identifying computers on the Internet. Computers use IP addresses, which are a series of number. However, it is difficult for humans to remember strings of numbers. Because of this, domain names were developed and used to identify entities on the Internet rather than using IP addresses.

[lishmalinyjames]

On the Internet, a hostname is a domain name assigned to a host computer. A hostname may be a domain name if it is properly organized into the domain name system. A domain name may be a hostname if it has been assigned to an Internet host and associated with the host's IP address.

[sinelogixtech]

In the Internet, a hostname is a domain name assigned to a host computer. ... A hostname may be a domain name, if it is properly organized into the domain name system. A domain name may be a hostname if it has been assigned to an Internet host and associated with the host's IP address.