How valuable can an affordable domain be?

One of the most important requirements for running a successful web presence is the domain. It is what visitors will mark first when they come across your website and what they will relate you with. The domain should be easy to remember, but should also be something that informs your website's visitors what the web page is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name typically is composed of 2 parts - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are several sets of TLDs that you should examine prior to picking the domain name you want. Your choice should depend on the aim of your website and on its target visitors. Let's take a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most popular TLDs intended to express a given intention - .com (commercial entities), .net (networks), .biz (companies), .info (informational websites), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (individuals or families), .pro (given professions), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domain Names encompass most fields of life, so you should choose the one that would indicate the purpose of your web page 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. Registering such a domain is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a certain country. Many people would like to purchase goods or services from a local web page, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, selecting a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your website.

URL Redirection

You can register different Top-Level Domains, which can send your web site's visitors to a specific website like domain.com, for instance. This would boost the traffic and decrease the risk of someone pinching your website visitors by registering the same SLD with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each Top-Level Domain Name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) exhibit where the domain is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is using at present. You can modify the NSs of your domain name whenever you like. You can have your domain registered with one provider and get the site hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain name and find decent website hosting solutions someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain to the current provider's name servers instantaneously.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name uses a certain set of DNSs, all its name server records will direct to the same webspace hosting provider. Some website hosting firms, however, allow you to edit given DNS records, such as the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which indicates on which web server your web site is hosted, while the MX records specify which server tackles the e-mail aliases related to your domain name. For example, if you engage a new web designer and he devises an .ASP web site that will be located on his own Windows web server, you may want to alter only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web hosting server, but your electronic mail accounts or any sub-domain names such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is invented by Microsoft and requests a Windows web hosting server, although a Linux web hosting server would be far more stable.

Low-Priced Domains Provided by 'yourWEBit'

Just a small number of web hosting companies enable you to modify given domain name server records and quite often this an additional paid service. With yourWEBit , you have a large collection of Top-Level Domains to choose from and you can modify all records or forward the domain names via a forwarding tool at no extra charge. That is why, 'yourWEBit' would be your best choice when it comes to administering your domain name and to establishing a successful presence on the World Wide Web.