Domains Explained

One of the most essential preconditions for establishing a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what people will observe first when they chance upon your website and what they will relate you with. The domain should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your web site's visitors what the web page is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain usually consists of 2 constituents - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain Name and "domain" is the SLD. There are a couple of groups of Top-Level Domains that you should contemplate prior to selecting the domain you want. Your choice should be based on the intention of your web page and on its target audience. Let's review the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most widespread Top-Level Domain Names aimed to indicate a specific purpose - .com (business entities), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informational sites), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (particular professions), and so on. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains encompass most realms of life, so you should go for the one that would indicate the aim of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them involve extra steps to demonstrate that you qualify to keep such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific Top-Level Domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Picking such a domain is good if your target group of visitors is from a certain country. Many folks would prefer to buy commodities or services from a local web page, and if your target is Canada, for example, selecting a .ca domain could boost the visits to your site.

Domain Redirects

You can register different domains, which can send your web page's visitors to a given web page such as domain.com, for example. This would raise the traffic and lower the likelihood of somebody snatching your website visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with a different TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) reveal where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can alter the DNSs of your domain whenever you want. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the web hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain and come across good website hosting solutions somewhere else later, you can point your domain to the present provider's NSs straight away.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain utilizes a particular set of NSs, all its domain name records will direct to the same website hosting firm. Some website hosting distributors, however, permit you to modify given DNS records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which discloses on which web hosting server your web site is hosted, whereas the MX records specify which web server handles the mail addresses associated with your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new website designer and he build an .ASP web site that will be located on his private Windows server, you may wish to edit only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. In this way, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows web server, but your mails or any sub-domains like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux website hosting account. The .ASP environment is designed by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows server, even though a Linux server would be far more secure.

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Just a few web hosting providers permit you to modify given domain records and very frequently this an additional paid service. With us, you have a huge assortment of TLDs to choose from and you can edit all domain name server records or forward the domain names through a redirection tool at no added cost.