When you put up a website online, it should have a name so that thegeneral public can recognise it. It's just like a person having anindividual name or a house having it's own address. For example, ourcompany's domain name is nextagelab.com.

The first part (nextagelab) is called as the actual name while theremaining part (.com) is called as a top level domain or TLD for short.

There are many TLD's available these days for example .co.uk, .org,.mobi, .info, .org.uk, .net and so on. You can select any TLD relevantto the website you want. For example, a company that only providesservices in the uk may call have a tld as .co.uk while a company operating world wide like John Lewis has its TLD as .com. Hence they have a domain name called johnlewis.com.

An organisation like the RSPCA is local to the UK and has it's domain name as www.rspca.org.uk.

TLD's are not limited and there is a new TLD coming up almost every other six odd months.

If you would like to have more information on how to launch your own TLD, please get in touch with me.