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What are Domains

One of the most crucial prerequisites for establishing a successful web presence is the domain. It is what people will perceive first when they stumble upon your website and what they will link you with. The domain 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 traditionally is composed of 2 components - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are several sets of Top-Level Domain Names that you should examine before you pick the domain you want. Your choice should depend on the goal of your web page and on its target audience. Let's scrutinize the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most typical Top-Level Domain Names meant to express a given function - .com (business establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (corporations), .info (informational sites), .org (organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (specific walks of life), and so on. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains cover most spheres of life, so you should opt for the one that would show the aim of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them include additional steps to prove that you are eligible to keep such a Top-Level Domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific Top-Level Domain Names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain is good if your target group of site visitors is from a particular country. Many persons would elect to buy goods or services from a local website, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, choosing a .ca domain could increase the visits to your web page.

Domain Redirects

You can register several TLDs, which can send your web page's visitors to a certain website such as domain.com, for instance. This would raise the traffic and reduce the probability of someone pinching your web page visitors by registering the same name with another Top-Level Domain - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain Name has domain records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) demonstrate where the domain is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting company whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using now. You can substitute the DNSs of your domain name at any moment. You can have your domain name registered with one firm and get the web hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain name and discover decent website hosting services someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain to the new provider's NSs straight off.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain utilizes a particular set of NSs, all its domain name server records will lead to the same web hosting vendor. Some web hosting firms, though, enable you to edit certain domain records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which shows on which server your web site is situated, whereas the MX records demonstrate which web server handles the mailbox accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you engage a new web site designer and he creates an .ASP web site that will be situated on his own Windows web hosting server, you may wish to modify solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web hosting server, but your e-mailboxes or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is designed by Microsoft and demands a Windows web server, although a Linux server would be far more reliable.

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Only a few web hosting providers permit you to edit particular name server records and quite often this an extra paid service. With us, you have a big selection of TLDs to choose from and you can modify all name server records or redirect the domain names through a forwarding tool at no added charge.