A domain name, or simply domain, is similar to a home address in real life. It’s how people find your site online – they enter the domain in a web browser or search engine.

Hostinger.com is a domain, just like Google.com and Facebook.com. Ideally, a domain should be registered under the same name as the brand it’s representing.

It’s important to buy domain names to help potential visitors find your site. Without assigned website names, we would only be able to access them by entering their IP address, which is more difficult to remember.

To find a good name while performing a domain search, you can include keywords or brand names.

A subdomain is a part of your website that lives under your main domain, like blog.yoursite.com. It helps you create separate sections for things like a blog, store, or help page without needing a new domain.

No, you cannot change a domain name once it’s registered. However, you can register a new one and redirect your website to it. This means when someone visits your old domain, they’ll be sent to the new one automatically.

The minimum registration period for domain names is one year. With Hostinger, you can also register .com, .net, .org, and other domains for up to three years. Some domains, like .ai, require a minimum of two years.

To keep your website online without interruption, we recommend enabling automatic renewal.

It’s free to check domain availability and there are no special requirements for buying a domain name. We only require basic contact information and a valid payment method.

You can also buy domains with us and point them to another hosting provider.

Yes. When you buy a domain, it belongs to you – and not the domain registrar.

It’s easy to use our domain transfer service to switch to Done 5. We’ll walk you through every step of the process.

TLD stands for top-level domain. This is the final component of a domain, like .com.

ccTLD stands for country-code top-level domain. This is a subcategory of TLDs used to identify a particular country – for example, .co.uk, .de, .mx, and .fr are all ccTLDs.

gTLD stands for generic top-level domain. gTLDs are the most common type of domain name, in part because this category includes .com domains, which have more registrations than all ccTLDs combined.

Historically, the main gTLDs were .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, and .mil, but the number of available domain extensions has been expanded with the addition of TLDs like .online, .xyz, and .name.

Yes, you can sell your domain name. It usually involves listing it on a marketplace, setting a price, and transferring ownership once it’s sold.