How valuable can an affordable domain be?

One of the most vital preconditions for establishing a successful online presence is the domain. It is what visitors will observe first when they discover your web site and what they will relate you with. The domain should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your site's visitors what the site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name traditionally contains two parts - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are a few categories of Top-Level Domains that you should examine prior to choosing the domain name you desire. Your pick should be based on the intention of your web site and on its target visitors. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most popular TLDs meant to denote a particular purpose - .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 families), .pro (particular walks of life), and so on. As you can perceive, these TLDs cover most spheres of life, so you should choose the one that would express the objective of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such TLDs, but some of them involve additional procedures to prove that you are eligible to register such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific Top-Level Domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Choosing such a Top-Level Domain is good if your target group of web page visitors is from a particular country. Many people would elect to buy goods or services from a local website, and if your target is Canada, for example, opting for a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your website.

Domain Name Redirects

You can register different domain names, which can send your web page's visitors to a particular site like domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and lower the probability of someone stealing your visitors by using the same SLD with another Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) indicate where the domain is hosted, in other words they point to the web hosting supplier whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using at the moment. You can switch the DNSs of your domain at all times. You can have your domain name registered with one firm and get the web space hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain name and encounter decent website hosting solutions somewhere else later, you can point your domain to the current company's name servers instantly.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain uses a given pair of DNSs, all its NS records will direct to the same webspace hosting provider. Some web hosting providers, though, permit you to modify specific DNS records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which discloses on which server your web site is located, whereas the MX records indicate which web hosting server tackles the mail accounts related to your domain name. For example, if you take on a new web designer and he sets up an .ASP site that will be hosted on his own Windows hosting server, you may want to change just the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. In this way, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your email address accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux webspace hosting account. The .ASP environment is devised by Microsoft and calls for a Windows hosting server, even though a Linux server would be far more secure.

Affordably Priced TLDs Delivered by 'Ascenica'

Only a small number of web hosting suppliers allow you to edit given domain records and very often this an additional paid service. With Ascenica , you have a huge array of Top-Level Domains to pick from and you can edit all DNS records or forward the domain names via a forwarding tool at no extra cost. That is why, 'Ascenica' would be your finest pick when it comes to administering your domain name and to setting up a successful presence on the Internet.