Domain Names Explained
One of the most crucial requirements for building a successful Internet presence is the domain name. It is what visitors will mark first when they chance upon your web page and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that tells your website's visitors what the site is about.
Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)
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A domain name as a rule has 2 parts - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain Name and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are a couple of groups of Top-Level Domain Names that you should consider prior to selecting the domain name you desire. Your pick should be based on the purpose of your site and on its target visitors. Let's scrutinize the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most popular Top-Level Domains meant to express a particular purpose - .com (business organizations), .net (networks), .biz (companies), .info (informative sites), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (persons or families), .pro (qualified professionals), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domain Names encompass most fields of life, so you should choose the one that would illustrate the aim of your web page best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve extra procedures to ascertain that you qualify to keep such a domain name (.mobi and .pro, for instance).
Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)
The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domain Names, are country-specific domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Settling on such a domain name is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a given country. Many guys would elect to purchase goods or services from a local website, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, opting for a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your site.
Domain Redirects
You can register several Top-Level Domains, which can redirect your web site's visitors to a particular website like domain.com, for instance. This would increase the traffic and decrease the chance of someone pilfering your site visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain with a different TLD - if you are not utilizing a trademark.
Name Servers (NSs)
Every Top-Level Domain Name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) display where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can alter the name servers of your domain at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the website hosting service itself from another. Hence, if you register your domain name and discover good website hosting services someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain name to the present company's NSs right away.
Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)
In general, as long as your domain utilizes a particular pair of NSs, all its name server records will point to the same web hosting distributor. Some hosting suppliers, however, allow you to modify given domain name server records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which designates on which hosting server your site is located, while the MX records exhibit which web hosting server tackles the mailbox accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you take on a new web designer and he creates an .ASP site that will be accommodated on his private Windows server, you may desire to edit just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. So, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows server, but your e-mail boxes or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is created by Microsoft and calls for a Windows web hosting server, although a Linux web server would be way more reliable.
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Just a small number of web hosting providers enable you to edit given domain records and quite often this an extra paid service. With us, you have a large collection of Top-Level Domains to pick from and you can modify all name server records or redirect the domain names via a redirection tool at no additional cost.