what is a domain name?

[319]

what dues it cost and is http://www.web.com a good website to start to sell my idea by the internet

[Jake]

"sell my idea by the internet" depending on what it is, you may not need a fancy web site, a simple free hosted blog might do. With a blog platform you can assemble a site with essentially no programming, using a pre-designed style theme.

Some free hosts, Google's Blogger.com is a good example can wither give you a subdomain like JerryIdeas.blogspot.com or will allow you to use a custom domain name you buy elsewhere that would look like: JerryIdeas.com and would cost you a total of about $12 a year. If you had to change hosts, perhaps after being banned from a free host you effectively lose the free subdomain and have to start from scratch, while if you own your own domain name you can transfer it to another host, a very few cases change hosts after their site gets popular and is getting more traffic than the exist service can handle.

Some of the web companies advertising on TV turn out to have hard ass business policies, one pretty much holds your domain name hostage, charging a fee for you to transfer it elsewhere, that's one good reason to get a domain name and hosting separately and not a bundle deal

[adil]

are you asking about buying http://www.web.com? Dude, that will cost you huge money.