Domains Defined

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

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name traditionally has two fragments - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the SLD. There are a few groups of Top-Level Domain Names that you should examine prior to picking the domain name you wish. Your selection should be built upon the goal of your web page and on its target audience. Let's take a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most common Top-Level Domain Names intended to express a particular function - .com (commercial entities), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (firms), .info (informative web pages), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (given professions), and so on. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains cover most spheres of life, so you should go for the one that would explain the objective of your web site best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them include additional requirements to show that you are eligible to own such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific domain names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Selecting such a domain name is good if your target group of website visitors is from a certain country. Many folks would want to purchase goods or services from a local web page, and if your target is Canada, for example, getting a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your website.

Domain Redirection

You can register different Top-Level Domain Names, which can forward your web page's visitors to a certain site such as domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and reduce the likelihood of somebody pinching your site visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain Name with another TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each domain name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) exhibit where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the web hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing at present. You can replace the NSs of your domain at all times. You can have your domain registered with one provider and get the website hosting service itself from another. Thus, if you register your domain and come across good website hosting solutions someplace else later, you can point your domain name to the present provider's DNSs at once.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name uses a given pair of DNSs, all its domain records will point to the same website hosting distributor. Some website hosting companies, though, permit you to edit certain NS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which reveals on which hosting server your site is situated, whereas the MX records reveal which web hosting server tackles the e-mail addresses associated with your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new website designer and he build an .ASP site that will be accommodated on his personal Windows web hosting server, you may desire to modify only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. In this way, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows server, but your emails or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is designed by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows hosting server, although a Linux server would be way more secure.

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