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Domains Defined

One of the most vital prerequisites for building a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what visitors will mark first when they discover your web site and what they will relate you with. The domain should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your site's visitors what the web page is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain usually is composed of 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 few sets of TLDs that you should examine before you select the domain you wish. Your decision should depend on the aim of your website and on its target spectators. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most widespread Top-Level Domains aimed to designate a specific purpose - .com (business entities), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informative websites), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (individuals or families), .pro (given walks of life), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains cover most realms of life, so you should settle on the one that would portray the intention of your web page best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them include extra requirements to confirm that you are eligible to keep such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

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

Domain Name Redirects

You can register several Top-Level Domain Names, which can forward your visitors to a specific site such as domain.com, for instance. This would increase the traffic and decrease the possibility of somebody swiping your visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain with a different Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) exhibit where the domain is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is using now. You can alter the DNSs of your domain whenever you like. You can have your domain name registered with one firm and get the website hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain and come across decent website hosting solutions someplace else later, you can point your domain to the new company's name servers right away.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name uses a particular set of DNSs, all its domain name server records will direct to the same web hosting vendor. Some web hosting distributors, though, enable you to modify specific domain records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which reveals on which server your site is situated, whereas the MX records specify which server tackles the mailbox accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you engage a new website designer and he develops an .ASP web site that will be accommodated on his personal Windows web hosting server, you may desire to change only the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows web server, but your mail address accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux website hosting account. The .ASP environment is invented by Microsoft and demands a Windows web hosting server, although a Linux server would be way more reliable.

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Just a number of web hosting companies enable you to edit given domain name records and very often this an additional paid service. With us, you have an enormous assortment of Top-Level Domains to select from and you can edit all domain records or forward the domain names via a redirection tool at no extra cost.