It would be unfair to say that -- like everything in the electronic ozone -- domains are just a part of the worldwide web's invisible-yet-omnipresent ether. This is because while domains are no more tangible than some creepy middle-aged web-prowler's social-network identity, they happen to make up the Internet's very building blocks. So whether we’re talking about top-level domains, or generic top-level domains bearing .com, .net and .org suffixes like

DomainPirates.Com, DomainWholesalers.Com,

TopMoneyDomains.com

each brings a mighty cyber-kingdom to mind -- an electronic realm in which keywords and passwords open gates to the real world’s vast universe of products and information.

So if you’re stuck in the off-line-o-sphere wanting to buy domain jewels, find charitable domain names or simply acquire a Flushaway JBC600C99 with a domestically-built thermal invisibility hook-up -- you go on-line to find the appropriate site. Ditto if you want to build your own unit; and the same if you want to read a paean to the joys of using the Flushaway alone at dawn along a British Columbia mountain stream (actually, as you already sense, there is no such Flushaway – but you get the idea). After all that, you may want to acquire a domain or hostname related to the thing itself.