Domains Explained

One of the most important prerequisites for having a successful online presence is the domain. It is what visitors will observe 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 notifies your web page's visitors what the web site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain as a rule consists of 2 fragments - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are a few groups of Top-Level Domains that you should consider before you select the domain you want. Your choice should depend on the goal of your website and on its target spectators. Let's study the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most popular TLDs intended to indicate a particular purpose - .com (business enterprises), .net (networks), .biz (firms), .info (informational web pages), .org (organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (individuals or families), .pro (particular walks of life), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domain Names cover most realms of life, so you should pick the one that would explain the aim of your web page best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domains, but some of them involve extra requirements to demonstrate that you are eligible to own 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 TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain is good if your target group of website visitors is from a particular country. Many visitors would want to purchase goods or services from a local web page, and if your target is Canada, for example, settling on a .ca domain could increase the visits to your site.

Domain Name Redirects

You can register different Top-Level Domain Names, which can redirect your visitors to a particular site like domain.com, for example. This would raise the traffic and decrease the risk of somebody pilfering your web page visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with a different TLD - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level 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 web hosting company whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is utilizing at the moment. You can alter the DNSs of your domain name whenever you want. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the web hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain name and come across decent website hosting plans someplace else later, you can point your domain to the new provider's name servers right away.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a specific set of name servers, all its name server records will direct to the same web hosting vendor. Some hosting companies, however, enable you to modify given domain name records, such as the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which indicates on which web hosting server your web page is located, whereas the MX records reveal which web server handles the email address accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new web page designer and he constructs an .ASP website that will be hosted on his private Windows server, you may desire to change solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your e-mail boxes or any sub-domain names like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is invented by Microsoft and demands a Windows server, although a Linux web server would be way more reliable.

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Only a few web hosting companies permit you to edit specific DNS records and quite frequently this an additional paid service. With us, you get an extensive variety of TLDs to choose from and you can edit all records or redirect the domain names through a redirection tool at no additional charge.