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Domains Explained

One of the most important requirements for establishing a successful Internet presence is the domain name. It is what people will see first when they discover your site and what they will link you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that tells your web site's visitors what the website is about.

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A domain name typically contains 2 components - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the SLD. There are a couple of categories of TLDs that you should consider before you choose the domain name you wish. Your pick should be built upon the intention of your web site and on its target spectators. Let's take a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most typical TLDs aimed to indicate a given purpose - .com (commercial establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informative web sites), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (specific professions), and so on. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains cover most spheres of life, so you should go for the one that would express the objective of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve additional procedures to prove that you qualify to possess 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. Registering such a domain name is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a particular country. Many visitors would want to purchase commodities or services from a local site, and if your aim is Canada, for instance, picking a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your web site.

URL Redirection

You can register a bunch of Top-Level Domain Names, which can send your web site's visitors to a certain web page like domain.com, for instance. This would raise the traffic and decrease the possibility of someone stealing your visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every TLD has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) display where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting provider whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is utilizing at present. You can switch the DNSs of your domain name whenever you like. You can have your domain registered with one firm and get the web hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and encounter decent website hosting services someplace else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the present provider's NSs at once.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

In general, as long as your domain utilizes a specific set of name servers, all its name server records will lead to the same web hosting distributor. Some web hosting suppliers, though, allow you to modify certain NS records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which shows on which hosting server your web site is situated, while the MX records specify which server tackles the mail aliases related to your domain name. For example, if you hire a new website designer and he constructs an .ASP website that will be accommodated on his personal Windows server, you may wish to alter only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. In this way, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your e-mail address accounts or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is invented by Microsoft and requires a Windows server, although a Linux server would be far more stable.

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Just a small number of web hosting distributors permit you to edit particular domain name records and quite often this an extra paid service. With us, you get a vast selection of TLDs to select from and you can edit all name server records or forward the domains through a forwarding tool at no extra cost.

 

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