Technically, an Internet domain name is the address corresponding to address the problem in a way. It can be said it is only a technical term. However, the Internet has become the world's Internet, domain names are also naturally become a social scientific terms.

From a social science perspective, the domain name has become an integral part of Internet culture.

From the business perspective, domain name has been known as the "corporate online trademark". There is no company does not attach importance to the identity of their products as trademark. The importance and the value of domain names, has also been recognized by companies around the world. Within one month of March 1998, the world's had registered 179,331 generic top-level domain name. (According to the information quality network.) 5977 domain names had been registered per day and there are 25 per minute! This record is the monthly growth rate of 7%. The number of domain name registration in China, accumulated over than 300 at the end of 1996, Jumped to 1998 in November it has increased to 16,644, the monthly growth rate of 10%.