Domains Explained

One of the most vital preconditions for building a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what people will mark first when they chance 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 tells your site's visitors what the web site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain name traditionally contains two fragments - 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 Second-Level Domain. There are a couple of groups of TLDs that you should contemplate prior to picking the domain name you want. Your decision should rest on the aim of your site and on its target spectators. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most widespread Top-Level Domain Names aimed to show a particular function - .com (business establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (businesses), .info (informational web pages), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (given walks of life), and so on. As you can see, these TLDs encompass most spheres of life, so you should settle on the one that would indicate the purpose of your website best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them involve extra steps to confirm that you are eligible to have such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Registering such a domain name is good if your target group of site visitors is from a specific country. Many visitors would rather buy goods or services from a local web site, and if your target is Canada, for instance, getting a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your web page.

Domain Name Redirects

You can register several TLDs, which can send your site's visitors to a certain web site like domain.com, for example. This would increase the traffic and lower the risk of someone snatching your visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with another TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) disclose where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting provider whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using at present. You can modify the DNSs of your domain at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the website hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain name and find decent website hosting packages someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain name to the current company's DNSs immediately.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain utilizes a certain set of name servers, all its domain name records will point to the same website hosting supplier. Some website hosting vendors, though, allow you to modify certain DNS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which specifies on which web hosting server your web page is located, whereas the MX records exhibit which server tackles the mail addresses related to your domain name. For instance, if you take on a new web designer and he develops an .ASP website that will be hosted on his private Windows web server, you may want to alter only the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows web server, but your e-mail boxes or any sub-domain names like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux website hosting account. The .ASP environment is developed by Microsoft and demands a Windows web hosting server, even though a Linux server would be way more reliable.

Reasonably Priced Domain Names Provided by 'siteria'

Just a small number of web hosting providers enable you to modify given domain name server records and very frequently this an extra paid service. With us, you get a huge assortment of Top-Level Domain Names to choose from and you can modify all NS records or forward the domain names via a redirection tool at no extra charge.