Domain Names Defined
One of the most important prerequisites for running a successful online presence is the domain name. It is what visitors will notice first when they come across your site and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that notifies your web page's visitors what the web site is about.
Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)
A domain name as a rule is composed of 2 constituents - 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 Name and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are a few groups of Top-Level Domains that you should contemplate before you choose the domain name you desire. Your choice should be based on the purpose of your website and on its target visitors. Let's study the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most widespread Top-Level Domain Names intended to express a particular function - .com (commercial organizations), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informational websites), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (qualified professionals), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains cover most realms of life, so you should pick the one that would depict the purpose of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them contain extra requirements to verify that you qualify to register such a TLD (.mobi and .pro, for example).
Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)
The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domain Names, are country-specific Top-Level Domain Names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Registering such a domain name is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a given country. Many individuals would sooner buy commodities or services from a local site, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, registering a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your site.
Domain Redirection
You can register several Top-Level Domains, which can forward your web page's visitors to a certain web site like domain.com, for instance. This would increase the traffic and decrease the likelihood of somebody swiping your web site visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain Name with a different Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not availing of a trademark.
Name Servers (NSs)
Every Top-Level Domain Name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) display where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the web hosting vendor whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using now. You can modify the DNSs of your domain name whenever you wish. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the hosting service itself from another. Thus, if you register your domain name and detect decent website hosting packages somewhere else later, you can point your domain name to the new provider's name servers instantaneously.
Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)
In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a particular set of DNSs, all its domain name records will direct to the same web hosting company. Some hosting distributors, though, permit you to modify given domain records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which displays on which web hosting server your web site is situated, whereas the MX records reveal which web hosting server handles the e-mail addresses related to your domain name. For example, if you appoint a new website designer and he designs an .ASP site that will be located on his personal Windows server, you may wish to change solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your mail address accounts or any sub-domain names like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux website hosting account. The .ASP platform is devised by Microsoft and requires a Windows hosting server, even though a Linux web hosting server would be way more dependable.
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Only a number of web hosting companies permit you to edit given DNS records and very often this an additional paid service. With us, you have a vast assortment of Top-Level Domain Names to select from and you can edit all domain records or redirect the domain names through a redirection tool at no extra cost.