Domains Explained

One of the most important prerequisites for establishing a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what visitors will notice first when they discover your site and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your website's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name usually is composed of 2 constituents - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are a few groups of TLDs that you should consider prior to choosing the domain name you want. Your choice should depend on the aim of your website and on its target visitors. Let's have a look at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most common Top-Level Domains intended to designate a given intention - .com (commercial organizations), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informational websites), .org (organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (persons or families), .pro (particular professions), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains cover most fields of life, so you should choose the one that would designate the purpose of your website best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them include additional steps to show that you are eligible to register such a TLD (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

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

URL Redirects

You can register a number of Top-Level Domain Names, which can forward your visitors to a given site like domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and reduce the likelihood of somebody snatching your website visitors by using the same SLD with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every domain name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) reveal where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the web hosting provider whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is utilizing at the moment. You can change the DNSs of your domain name whenever you like. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the website hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain name and stumble upon decent website hosting packages somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the new company's NSs right away.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name uses a given set of DNSs, all its NS records will lead to the same website hosting company. Some web hosting suppliers, however, enable you to modify certain name server records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which exhibits on which web hosting server your site is located, whereas the MX records indicate which server handles the email address accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you hire a new website designer and he creates an .ASP web page that will be situated on his personal Windows web server, you may wish to change only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Thus, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your email mailbox accounts or any sub-domains like 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 calls for a Windows hosting server, even though a Linux hosting server would be far more reliable.

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