Domain Names Explained

One of the most important requirements for creating a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what people will discern first when they visit your web page and what they will link you with. The domain should be easy to remember, but should also be something that informs your visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain as a rule has two parts - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are a few groups of Top-Level Domains that you should consider prior to choosing the domain you desire. Your choice should be built upon the purpose of your web site and on its target viewers. Let's have a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most typical TLDs aimed to designate a specific intention - .com (business enterprises), .net (networks), .biz (firms), .info (informative web pages), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (certain walks of life), etc. As you can perceive, these TLDs encompass most spheres of life, so you should go for the one that would denote the intention of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them contain additional procedures to demonstrate that you qualify to register such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

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

URL Redirection

You can register a bunch of Top-Level Domains, which can redirect your website's visitors to a specific site such as domain.com, for instance. This would raise the traffic and reduce the risk of somebody swiping your visitors by using the same name with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) demonstrate where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting vendor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing at present. You can substitute the name servers of your domain whenever you like. You can have your domain name registered with one firm and get the hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and come across decent website hosting plans someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain to the new company's DNSs immediately.

Domain Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name utilizes a particular set of name servers, all its records will direct to the same web hosting supplier. Some web hosting suppliers, however, permit you to modify certain domain name server records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which displays on which web hosting server your site is situated, whereas the MX records indicate which web hosting server tackles the email box accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you engage a new site designer and he build an .ASP web page that will be situated on his own Windows web hosting server, you may desire to alter only the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your email box accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux website hosting account. The .ASP platform is developed by Microsoft and calls for a Windows web server, although a Linux web server would be far more stable.

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Only a number of web hosting suppliers permit you to edit certain DNS records and very often this an extra paid service. With us, you get an enormous array of Top-Level Domain Names to pick from and you can modify all DNS records or forward the domain names through a forwarding tool at no additional charge.