An Internet entrepreneur’s first challenge is to create a presence on the web. With a phone line, computer, and HyperText Markup Language (HTML), a business can advertise or event conduct transactions over the Internet. Any computer user familiar with a word processor can effectively use these applications with minimal training.

Some online businesses handle hundreds of thousands of people every day. They require specialized hardware and cabling to control the vast amount of traffic on their site per day.

The second challenge is to make the business’s website visible on the Internet. The first step in this process would be registering a domain name. Every computer connected to the Internet has a unique number attached to it called an IP address.

To simplify finding specific computers on the ‘Net’, the numbers were substituted with an alias called domain names. The names come in two levels, before and after the dot. Network