Domain Names Defined

One of the most vital prerequisites for creating a successful Internet presence is the domain name. It is what visitors will spot first when they visit your web site and what they will link you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that tells your web site's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name as a rule contains two 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 and "domain" is the SLD. There are several categories of Top-Level Domains that you should contemplate prior to picking the domain name you want. Your pick should depend on the intention of your web page and on its target audience. Let's have a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most typical TLDs meant to indicate a specific purpose - .com (business enterprises), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (corporations), .info (informational web sites), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (certain walks of life), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains encompass most realms of life, so you should opt for the one that would portray the objective of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them include additional requirements to demonstrate that you qualify to have such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domain Names, are country-specific Top-Level Domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Opting for such a domain name is good if your target group of site visitors is from a given country. Many visitors would elect to purchase commodities or services from a local web site, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, opting for a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your website.

Domain Redirects

You can register several Top-Level Domains, which can forward your website's visitors to a specific site like domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and decrease the probability of someone swiping your website visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with another TLD - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) exhibit where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is using at present. You can modify the DNSs of your domain name at all times. You can have your domain registered with one firm and get the web hosting service itself from another. Hence, if you register your domain and discover good website hosting services somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the present company's NSs right away.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name utilizes a certain set of DNSs, all its DNS records will lead to the same web hosting vendor. Some website hosting distributors, though, permit you to modify given 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 hosting server your site is situated, whereas the MX records exhibit which web server handles the e-mailbox accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you hire a new web page designer and he develops an .ASP web site that will be hosted on his personal Windows hosting server, you may wish to modify just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your e-mails or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is devised by Microsoft and requires a Windows web server, although a Linux hosting server would be far more secure.

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