Domain Names Defined

One of the most important prerequisites for creating a successful online presence is the domain. It is what visitors will perceive first when they chance upon your web site and what they will associate you with. The domain should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your web site's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain typically is composed of two constituents - 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 and "domain" is the SLD. There are several categories of Top-Level Domains that you should consider before you pick the domain you want. Your pick should be built upon the goal of your site and on its target visitors. Let's take a peek at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most common Top-Level Domain Names intended to signify a given purpose - .com (business establishments), .net (networks), .biz (businesses), .info (informational web pages), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (specific walks of life), and so on. As you can perceive, these TLDs encompass most realms of life, so you should pick the one that would explain the intention of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them include extra procedures to show that you qualify to register such a Top-Level Domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Choosing such a domain is good if your target group of website visitors is from a given country. Many persons would sooner purchase commodities or services from a local web site, and if your aim is Canada, for instance, selecting a .ca domain could boost the visits to your website.

Domain Name Forwarding

You can register a number of Top-Level Domain Names, which can redirect your web page's visitors to a certain web site such as domain.com, for instance. This would boost the traffic and lower the likelihood of someone snatching your web page visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with another Top-Level Domain - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) indicate where the domain is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing at present. You can swap the DNSs of your domain whenever you want. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the website hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and discover decent website hosting packages someplace else afterwards, you can point your domain to the current company's DNSs instantly.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a certain pair of name servers, all its domain records will direct to the same website hosting vendor. Some website hosting suppliers, however, allow you to modify specific domain name server records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which displays on which web server your site is located, while the MX records demonstrate which web server handles the email mailbox accounts related to your domain name. For instance, if you take on a new website designer and he designs an .ASP web site that will be situated on his personal Windows web hosting server, you may want to alter solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your mail accounts or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux hosting account. The .ASP platform is invented by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows server, although a Linux web server would be way more stable.

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Just a small number of web hosting providers permit you to modify given DNS records and quite often this an additional paid service. With us, you have a huge selection of TLDs to choose from and you can edit all domain records or redirect the domains using a redirection tool at no added charge.