Domain Names Defined

One of the most crucial requirements for building a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what visitors will note first when they visit your site and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your visitors what the web site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain name traditionally is composed of two parts - 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 Name and "domain" is the SLD. There are a couple of sets of TLDs that you should consider prior to selecting the domain name you want. Your choice should depend on the goal of your web site and on its target spectators. Let's investigate the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most popular TLDs aimed to signify a specific purpose - .com (commercial entities), .net (networks), .biz (businesses), .info (informative resources), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (persons or families), .pro (given walks of life), etc. As you can see, these TLDs cover most fields of life, so you should opt for the one that would designate the intention of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve additional procedures to prove that you are eligible to keep such a Top-Level Domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific Top-Level Domain Names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain name is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a particular country. Many guys would sooner buy goods 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 website.

Domain Redirects

You can register a bunch of Top-Level Domains, which can send your web site's visitors to a certain web site such as domain.com, for instance. This would boost the traffic and lower the possibility of someone pinching your site visitors by using the same name with a different TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each TLD has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) disclose where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using at the moment. You can change the name servers of your domain whenever you want. 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 find decent website hosting packages someplace else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the current company's DNSs immediately.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name uses a particular set of DNSs, all its DNS records will direct to the same website hosting distributor. Some web hosting suppliers, however, permit you to edit given domain name server records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which displays on which web hosting server your website is hosted, while the MX records indicate which server tackles the mail addresses associated with your domain name. For example, if you take on a new site designer and he sets up an .ASP web page that will be situated on his own Windows server, you may want to alter just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Hence, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows hosting server, but your mail address accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux hosting account. The .ASP platform is invented by Microsoft and calls for a Windows server, even though a Linux hosting server would be way more secure.

Low-Priced Top-Level Domain Names Supplied by 'Media Kiings'

Only a few web hosting companies allow you to modify certain domain name records and very frequently this an extra paid service. With us, you have an extensive assortment of Top-Level Domain Names to choose from and you can edit all DNS records or redirect the domain names using a forwarding tool at no additional charge.