Domains and SubDomains

Surprisingly, my blog is a sub-domain in the toplevel domain "blogspot.com". The webpages are also maintained in the servers similar to the way we maintain files in our hard drives.Suppose I have a jpeg file in the following location

"D:\Zerofactor\Pictures\factor.jpg"

You might have understood that the picture is in a folder named Pictures, wgich inturn is in a folder called Zerofactor located in D drive.

Check the following

http://images.google.co.in/intl/en_ALL/images/images_hp.gif


This google image search image with the name images_hp.gif is in a folder called images which inturn is in en_ALL(english all) in intl(international) folder located in images.google.com

Here google.com is the top level domain, where as "images" is the subdomain.Sub domains are also similar to folders,but they are handled differently. A subdomain in a top level domain must again be redirected to a specific folder in that domain.My blog neotracks is a subdomain like any other blog in blogspot.All the information regarding my blog will be in that folder and any one with the id and password details are given access to the blog.

Whenever you type http://www.neotracks.blogspot.com it first resolves the domain name and in the blogspot server it redirects to the neotracks subdomain.Each time a user creates a blog, a sub domain is started and if an unused subdomain is sought, it directs to the registration page.

Blogging a Blog

How did a blog start?
And why are we getting a blog for free??

It was decades ago when there was no internet that the post offices had lot of work and had a lot of reputation everywhere in the world. Once the the network of computers started and has grown into the mammoth internet we are using now, the post offices are no more. The outburst of social networking sites made internet more popular than ever and anything in this world.

People who had a long list of friends used to update their friends through letters in the post office days. Later, on the evolution of internet, such kind of people used to buy webspaces and maintain such updates in their own sites.Such websites were called weblogs.they used to hire people with knowledge in html and used to make weblogs which has also become a fashion among such interested people.

Later the social networking sites also provided space for users, where the user only publishes some writing and the html page design work is taken up by the network administrator similar to the weblogs.As Internet became net the weblogs also became blogs, however we were given sub-domians like allmixfruitjuice in my case where the domain is blogspot.

So,you never worry about the page lay out and the formatting in maintaing a blog.You only publish matter along with any pics(or more) you have.

Well,you get it for free because most of us try to monetize the blogs which is also a source of income for the network administrators.You gain only a part of what they get.