Domains Explained

One of the most vital prerequisites for establishing a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what people will spot first when they come across your web page and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your web site's visitors what the web site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain name traditionally contains two parts - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are a few sets of Top-Level Domains that you should consider prior to selecting the domain name you want. Your selection should be built upon the aim of your site and on its target audience. Let's take a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most popular TLDs meant to denote a particular intention - .com (commercial enterprises), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (corporations), .info (informative sites), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (given walks of life), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains encompass most spheres of life, so you should settle on the one that would describe the aim of your web site best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them contain additional requirements to ascertain that you qualify to own such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domain Names, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Settling on such a domain name is good if your target group of site visitors is from a particular country. Many folks would prefer to purchase goods or services from a local website, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, opting for a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your website.

URL Redirection

You can register a number of TLDs, which can redirect your site's visitors to a specific site such as domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and reduce the risk of somebody stealing your web site visitors by registering the same SLD with another 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, aka DNS records) disclose where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the web hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can swap the name servers of your domain name at any moment. 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 and discover good website hosting plans somewhere else at a later time, you can point your domain name to the present company's DNSs immediately.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a given pair of NSs, all its domain records will direct to the same web hosting firm. Some web hosting companies, however, allow you to edit given DNS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which shows on which hosting server your website is located, whereas the MX records show which hosting server tackles the electronic mail accounts related to your domain name. For example, if you engage a new web page designer and he devises an .ASP web page that will be situated on his personal Windows web server, you may want to change just the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web hosting server, but your e-mailboxes or any sub-domain names like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux web hosting account. The .ASP environment is designed by Microsoft and demands a Windows web hosting server, even though a Linux hosting server would be far more stable.

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