Domain Names 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 chance upon your site and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that notifies your website's visitors what the website is about.
Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)
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A domain name typically contains 2 constituents - 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 SLD. There are several groups of TLDs that you should consider prior to picking the domain name you want. Your choice should rest on the purpose of your web site and on its target viewers. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most typical TLDs aimed to show a given intention - .com (commercial entities), .net (networks), .biz (companies), .info (informational websites), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (individuals or families), .pro (qualified professionals), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domain Names cover most realms of life, so you should select the one that would express the objective of your site best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve additional procedures to verify that you are eligible to keep such a TLD (.mobi and .pro, for example).
Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)
The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific Top-Level Domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Picking such a domain name is good if your target group of website visitors is from a particular country. Many persons would prefer to buy goods or services from a local web site, and if your aim is Canada, for instance, selecting a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your site.
URL Redirection
You can register a bunch of TLDs, which can redirect your web page's visitors to a given site like domain.com, for example. This would raise the traffic and decrease the possibility of someone pinching your site visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with another TLD - if you are not utilizing a trademark.
Name Servers (NSs)
Every Top-Level Domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) disclose where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is using at present. You can substitute the DNSs of your domain name at all times. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the web hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain name and encounter good website hosting plans somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the current company's NSs at once.
Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)
On the whole, as long as your domain uses a particular pair of name servers, all its NS records will point to the same web hosting provider. Some hosting vendors, however, allow you to modify certain domain name records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which indicates on which web server your website is situated, while the MX records indicate which hosting server tackles the electronic mail accounts related to your domain name. For instance, if you take on a new web site designer and he devises an .ASP website that will be accommodated on his own Windows web hosting server, you may wish to edit solely the Internet Protocol 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 emails or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux website hosting account. The .ASP environment is developed by Microsoft and demands a Windows server, although a Linux web server would be way more stable.
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Just a small number of web hosting vendors permit you to edit specific DNS records and quite frequently this an extra paid service. With us, you get a large variety of Top-Level Domain Names to pick from and you can modify all name server records or redirect the domains via a redirection tool at no additional cost.