How valuable is to discover the best domain?

One of the most essential prerequisites for establishing a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what people will spot first when they stumble upon your web site and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that informs your web site's visitors what the site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name typically consists of 2 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. There are a few sets of Top-Level Domains that you should examine before you choose the domain name you desire. Your selection should be built upon the purpose of your web page and on its target visitors. Let's take a glance at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most popular Top-Level Domains aimed to show a particular purpose - .com (commercial establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (corporations), .info (informative resources), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (persons or families), .pro (particular professions), etc. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains encompass most fields of life, so you should choose the one that would illustrate the aim of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domains, but some of them involve additional requirements to show that you are eligible to have such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Opting for such a domain name is good if your target group of web page visitors is from a specific country. Many persons would want to buy commodities or services from a local website, and if your aim is Canada, for instance, getting a .ca Top-Level Domain Name could increase the visits to your website.

Domain Name Redirection

You can register a number of Top-Level Domain Names, which can redirect your website's visitors to a particular site such as domain.com, for instance. This would raise the traffic and lower the possibility of someone pilfering your website visitors by registering the same SLD with a different TLD - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every TLD has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) display where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting distributor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is using at the moment. You can alter the name servers of your domain at any time. You can have your domain name registered with one company and get the site hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain name and find good website hosting services somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain name to the current provider's DNSs instantly.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain uses a certain set of NSs, all its name server records will direct to the same website hosting vendor. Some site hosting vendors, however, allow you to modify specific domain name records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which details on which web hosting server your web site is situated, while the MX records indicate which web hosting server tackles the mail accounts related to your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new web site designer and he devises an .ASP web page that will be situated on his private Windows web server, you may wish to edit only the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Thus, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web hosting server, but your e-mail box accounts or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux web space hosting account. The .ASP platform is created by Microsoft and requests a Windows hosting server, even though a Linux server would be way more secure.

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Only a few web hosting providers enable you to modify certain domain name records and quite often this an extra paid service. With 100WebSpace , you have a huge collection of TLDs to choose from and you can modify all records or forward the domain names through a redirection tool at no additional cost. Because of that, '100WebSpace' would be your finest pick when it comes to managing your domain name and to establishing a successful presence on the Internet.