What are Domains

One of the most important prerequisites for setting up a successful web presence is the domain. It is what people will notice first when they come across your website and what they will associate you with. The domain should be easy to remember, but should also be something that notifies your website's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain traditionally is composed of two fragments - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are several sets of Top-Level Domain Names that you should examine before you pick the domain you want. Your selection should be based on the purpose of your web page and on its target viewers. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most typical Top-Level Domains aimed to signify a specific purpose - .com (business enterprises), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informative websites), .org (organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (specific professions), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domain Names encompass most fields of life, so you should go for the one that would indicate the objective of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them include extra steps to ascertain that you qualify to possess such a domain name (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a given country. Many folks would sooner purchase commodities or services from a local web page, and if your target is Canada, for example, selecting a .ca domain could increase the visits to your website.

Domain Redirection

You can register a bunch of domain names, which can forward your visitors to a certain website such as domain.com, for example. This would increase the traffic and reduce the likelihood of somebody swiping your web page visitors by using the same SLD with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) demonstrate where the domain is hosted, in other words they point to the web hosting supplier whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can replace the NSs of your domain whenever you want. You can have your domain name registered with one firm and get the web hosting service itself from another. Hence, if you register your domain and encounter good website hosting solutions somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain to the new provider's name servers at once.

Domain Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain utilizes a specific pair of DNSs, all its domain records will direct to the same website hosting company. Some website hosting distributors, though, permit you to modify given NS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which demonstrates on which hosting server your website is hosted, while the MX records disclose which web hosting server tackles the email box accounts related to your domain name. For example, if you hire a new web page designer and he constructs an .ASP web site that will be located on his personal Windows hosting server, you may want to alter just 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 server, but your email address accounts or any sub-domains like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux hosting account. The .ASP platform is designed by Microsoft and requests a Windows hosting server, although a Linux web server would be way more reliable.

Budget Top-Level Domain Names Offered by 'Better Choice IT'

Just a small number of web hosting suppliers allow you to modify certain NS records and very often this an extra paid service. With us, you have a wide collection of Top-Level Domains to pick from and you can modify all domain records or forward the domains using a forwarding tool at no added cost.