What is a resolvable domain?

I was inquiring with my web hosting company. The plan I signed up for says I can host unlimited domains with this one account. The rep said yes %26quot;it will be a resolvable domain.%26quot;, when I asked about adding other sites.

What does this mean exactly?

What is a resolvable domain?

A name - any combniation of letters+digits+%26quot;-%26quot;, that points to a particular machine (IP) address. This information is held in DNS servers/computers. So if say, you type in yahoo.com, your computer looks up yahoo.com%26#039;s machine address (IP addess) on those DNS servers, and knows where the content - webpages/pictures etc. are stored. Sometimes a domain name is not configured correctly and is not set to point to any particular IP. That%26#039;s an unresolvable domain. In contrast, any domain going to an IP is resolvable.

p.s. It%26#039;s a lot more complicated than that, but I don%26#039;t think one needs to go into such detail :)

p.s.2. In your particular case, I would guess you can point an unlimited number of domains to your hosting space / to your server%26#039;s IP address. Each domain would go into a separate directory. Basically you would have a number of websites on the same hosting %26#039;puter / at the same price.

p.s. 3: The rep should have been more forthcoming to explain all that : ))