One of the most crucial preconditions for setting up a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what visitors will spot first when they chance upon your website and what they will relate you with. The domain should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your visitors what the web site is about.
A domain typically has two parts - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the SLD. There are a couple of sets of Top-Level Domains that you should consider prior to choosing the domain you wish. Your selection should depend on the aim of your site and on its target audience. Let's have a glance at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most popular Top-Level Domain Names intended to indicate a given intention - .com (commercial entities), .net (networks), .biz (companies), .info (informative resources), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (specific professions), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains encompass most realms of life, so you should settle on the one that would describe the intention of your web page best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domains, but some of them include additional requirements to verify that you are eligible to keep such a Top-Level Domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).
The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Choosing such a domain is good if your target group of site visitors is from a certain country. Many guys would rather buy goods or services from a local web page, and if your goal is Canada, for example, getting a .ca domain could increase the visits to your web page.
You can register a number of domains, which can send your site's visitors to a specific web page like domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and reduce the possibility of someone snatching your website visitors by registering the same SLD with another TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.
Each domain name has domain records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) demonstrate where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is utilizing at the moment. You can replace the DNSs of your domain name whenever you want. You can have your domain registered with one firm and get the web hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain and discover good website hosting plans somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain to the present company's name servers straight away.
In general, as long as your domain uses a specific set of NSs, all its DNS records will lead to the same web hosting company. Some website hosting companies, though, enable you to edit certain DNS records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which discloses on which hosting server your web page is located, whereas the MX records demonstrate which hosting server handles the mailbox accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you take on a new web page designer and he devises an .ASP web page that will be accommodated on his personal Windows hosting server, you may desire to alter solely the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your mail 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 built by Microsoft and demands a Windows web server, although a Linux hosting server would be far more stable.
Just a number of web hosting distributors enable you to edit specific name server records and quite often this an additional paid service. With us, you have a wide assortment of Top-Level Domain Names to select from and you can edit all NS records or forward the domain names via a forwarding tool at no extra charge.
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