Domain Names Defined

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

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name usually has two constituents - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are a few sets of TLDs that you should examine before you pick the domain name you want. Your selection should be built upon the goal of your website and on its target viewers. Let's have a glance at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most typical Top-Level Domain Names intended to denote a specific intention - .com (business entities), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (companies), .info (informative web pages), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (qualified professionals), etc. As you can see, these TLDs cover most spheres of life, so you should go for the one that would indicate the purpose of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve additional requirements to prove that you are eligible to keep such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domain Names, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Registering such a domain name is good if your target group of website visitors is from a particular country. Many visitors would want to purchase commodities or services from a local web page, and if your goal is Canada, for example, getting a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your site.

Domain Name Redirects

You can register several domain names, which can forward your site's visitors to a specific web page such as domain.com, for example. This would increase the traffic and lower the likelihood of somebody pilfering your web site visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain Name with another Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) exhibit where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting provider whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can swap the NSs of your domain name at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the web hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain and discover good website hosting packages somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the new company's name servers straight off.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name utilizes a certain set of name servers, all its name server records will point to the same web hosting vendor. Some web hosting vendors, however, enable you to modify specific NS records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which specifies on which web hosting server your site is hosted, while the MX records designate which hosting server tackles the mail aliases related to your domain name. For example, if you appoint a new site designer and he constructs an .ASP web site that will be located on his personal Windows server, you may want to alter just the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. In this way, www.domain.com will point to the Windows hosting server, but your email address accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux website hosting account. The .ASP platform is devised by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows hosting server, even though a Linux web server would be far more secure.

Affordably Priced Domain Names Courtesy of 'Asesores en Web'

Only a small number of web hosting suppliers enable you to edit certain name server records and very frequently this an additional paid service. With us, you have an extensive array of Top-Level Domain Names to pick from and you can modify all domain name records or redirect the domain names through a forwarding tool at no extra charge.