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 "it will be a resolvable domain.", when I asked about adding other sites.


What does this mean exactly?
What is a resolvable domain?
A name - any combniation of letters+digits+"-", 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'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's an unresolvable domain. In contrast, any domain going to an IP is resolvable.





p.s. It's a lot more complicated than that, but I don'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's IP address. Each domain would go into a separate directory. Basically you would have a number of websites on the same hosting 'puter / at the same price.





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