How essential can an affordable domain be?

One of the most important prerequisites for establishing a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what people will note first when they chance upon your website and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that notifies your website's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name typically consists of 2 fragments - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are several categories of TLDs that you should consider before you choose the domain you desire. Your selection should be based on the aim of your website and on its target audience. Let's take a peek at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most popular Top-Level Domain Names aimed to designate a specific intention - .com (commercial entities), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informational web pages), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (certain professions), etc. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains encompass most realms of life, so you should go for the one that would explain the intention of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve extra procedures to demonstrate that you qualify to keep such a TLD (.mobi and .pro, for example).

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 Top-Level Domain Name is good if your target group of visitors is from a given country. Many persons would sooner purchase goods or services from a local site, and if your aim is Canada, for example, choosing a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your site.

Domain Redirection

You can register several TLDs, which can send your web page's visitors to a given website like domain.com, for example. This would raise the traffic and lower the risk of somebody stealing your web page visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain with a different TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every TLD has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) reveal where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is using at present. You can change the name servers of your domain name whenever you wish. You can have your domain name registered with one company and get the web page hosting service itself from another. Thus, if you register your domain name and detect decent website hosting solutions somewhere else later, you can point your domain name to the new company's DNSs straight off.

Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain utilizes a given pair of name servers, all its name server records will lead to the same hosting supplier. Some webspace hosting suppliers, though, allow you to modify given name server records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which shows on which web server your web page is hosted, while the MX records display which server tackles the e-mail box accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you engage a new web site designer and he sets up an .ASP website that will be accommodated on his own Windows hosting server, you may want to modify solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your email box accounts or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux website hosting account. The .ASP environment is created by Microsoft and demands a Windows web hosting server, although a Linux server would be way more stable.

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Only a number of web hosting providers allow you to edit certain domain name server records and very often this an extra paid service. With CREAWEBHOSTING , you have a huge selection of TLDs to select from and you can modify all domain name server records or forward the domain names using a forwarding tool at no added cost. For that reason, 'CREAWEBHOSTING' would be your best pick when it comes to administering your domain and to setting up a successful presence on the Internet.