How to Use domain name in a Sentence

domain name

noun
  • Always look at the domain name first.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • So why does a domain name need to be trademarked in the first place?
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 30 June 2020
  • There is a cautionary tale which comes out of the domain name world.
    — Jess Collen, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The county changed its email domain name during the past year.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • After that you’ll be charged the standard price for the domain name each year.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Here are the top seven biggest-ticket domain name sales of all time.
    — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Living in constant fear of losing more and more domain names.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Somebody will scoop up a domain name that used to host a website but has since been abandoned.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The first pastebin, of course, is the service that snagged the dotcom domain name.
    — Tj McCue, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • But getting a domain name that's already taken — that's busy work.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The first step in finding your ideal domain name is putting it into your search engine.
    — Michael Gargiulo, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • In his career, Padawer has also done a brisk trade in domain names.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Crooks only need a domain name — not the actual dog — to engage in fraud.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 1 Dec. 2022
  • But some others, such as internet domain names, will remain the same.
    — Konstantin Testorides, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2019
  • Last June, the websites were shut down through seizure orders issued against the domain names.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Picking a domain name and setting up your website is a strategic move; do it wisely.
    — Andrey Insarov, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • One of the first impressions people get of this identity is your domain name.
    — Akram Atallah, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Among the most powerful ways of doing this is with a descriptive domain name.
    — Akram Atallah, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Innes has since used the domain name to turn over suspicious requests to local police.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
  • The emails come from various addresses and domain names.
    — James Peckham, PC Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But to Adams’s growing frustration, someone else had snagged the domain name for the phrase.
    — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The new domain name was purchased in February, online records show.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2022
  • One of the few visually suspicious elements in the scam is the domain name used in the proxy site landing page.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 July 2022
  • The domain name echoes the title of a book written by Rodriguez in 2012.
    — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2014
  • Your brand voice, your exact-match domain name, your proprietary content, your code; this is where real value lives.
    — Michael Gargiulo, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Check for misspellings in the domain name of email addresses and look for variations in the logo of the company.
    — Audrey Nguyen, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Creative domain names that pluck emotional strings Sometimes, the best domain names aren’t clever—they’re felt.
    — Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Wouldn't the very famous Property Brothers at least have their own domain name in their email address?
    — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Apple has told staff that the outage stemmed from domain name system, or DNS, problems.
    — Mark Gurman/bloomberg, Time, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Qurium further traced the domain name to an email registered to a person called Mien Trung Vinh.
    — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022

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