The terms “Shared Cloud” and “Shared Cloud Hosting” are not very different from Cloud Hosting. They also refer to an Internet Hosting service delivered from a group of servers. The term Shared Cloud Hosting (Shared Vloud) is not  precisely defined yet. However, a “Shared Cloud Hosting” could be considered a service delivered from a computer system in which the computing resources (processing resources) are distributed. To be considered as “Shared” any Cloud hosting service must be powered by a software platform which does not create isolated virtual instances. In a Shared Cloud, all data resides in a shared storage system or network (shared pool). Cloud accounts (name based or IP based virtual hosting) share the computing resources of all servers part of the system.

Domain Names are web addresses, identification labels which defines an administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet.

A Domain name is also hostname which identifies Internet Protocol (IP) resources such as web sites. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). They are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. Domains are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless.

The first-level set of domain names are the Top-level domains (TLDs), including the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as .COM, .NET and .ORG, and the country code Top-level domains (ccTLDs).

There are second-level and third-level domain names in the DNS hierarchy which are open for reservation by end-users as well.