Domains Explained

One of the most crucial prerequisites for creating a successful Internet presence is the domain name. It is what people will discern first when they discover your web site and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your website's visitors what the site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name as a rule is composed of 2 components - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain Name and "domain" is the SLD. There are a few categories of Top-Level Domains that you should consider before you pick the domain name you want. Your selection should depend on the aim of your web page and on its target audience. Let's investigate the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most widespread TLDs meant to show a given purpose - .com (business enterprises), .net (networks), .biz (companies), .info (informational sites), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (persons or families), .pro (qualified professionals), and so on. As you can see, these TLDs cover most realms of life, so you should settle on the one that would indicate the purpose of your web page best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them contain extra steps to demonstrate that you are eligible to own such a TLD (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific domain names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain name is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a given country. Many folks would elect to purchase commodities or services from a local web site, and if your target is Canada, for example, picking a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your website.

Domain Name Forwarding

You can register different domains, which can send your visitors to a certain web page like domain.com, for example. This would increase the traffic and reduce the possibility of somebody snatching your website visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain Name with another Top-Level Domain - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every TLD has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) exhibit where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can switch the DNSs of your domain at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one firm and get the web hosting service itself from another. Hence, if you register your domain name and encounter good website hosting plans someplace else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the current company's DNSs straight away.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain uses a given set of name servers, all its records will point to the same website hosting vendor. Some website hosting suppliers, though, allow you to edit specific domain name records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which indicates on which server your website is situated, whereas the MX records demonstrate which web hosting server tackles the email accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you engage a new web site designer and he creates an .ASP site that will be accommodated on his private Windows web server, you may want to alter only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows hosting server, but your email address accounts or any sub-domains like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux hosting account. The .ASP platform is designed by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows web hosting server, even though a Linux hosting server would be far more secure.

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Only a few web hosting vendors allow you to modify particular domain name records and very frequently this an extra paid service. With us, you have a large array of Top-Level Domain Names to choose from and you can modify all domain name server records or forward the domain names through a forwarding tool at no additional charge.