Domains Explained

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

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain typically has two fragments - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the SLD. There are several groups of Top-Level Domains that you should examine prior to picking the domain you desire. Your decision should be based on the intention of your web page and on its target viewers. Let's have a look at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most popular Top-Level Domains intended to express a particular intention - .com (business entities), .net (networks), .biz (businesses), .info (informative web sites), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .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 pick the one that would illustrate the intention of your web page best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domains, but some of them include additional steps to confirm that you qualify to keep such a 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 web page visitors is from a particular country. Many guys would like to purchase commodities or services from a local web page, and if your goal is Canada, for example, registering a .ca domain could boost the visits to your web page.

Domain Name Forwarding

You can register a bunch of domains, which can forward your website's visitors to a particular web site such as domain.com, for example. This would increase the traffic and lower the probability of someone pilfering your site visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain with another TLD - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) exhibit where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting supplier whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using now. You can alter the DNSs of your domain name at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the website hosting service itself from another. Thus, if you register your domain and discover decent website hosting packages somewhere else at a later time, you can point your domain to the current provider's NSs straight off.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain uses a given pair of NSs, all its DNS records will point to the same web hosting company. Some web hosting vendors, though, allow you to edit specific DNS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which displays on which web server your web page is situated, while the MX records show which web hosting server tackles the mailbox accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you engage a new web designer and he develops an .ASP web page that will be located on his personal Windows server, you may want to edit solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. In this way, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your email address accounts 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 invented by Microsoft and demands a Windows hosting server, although a Linux web hosting server would be far more reliable.

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