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How valuable can an affordable domain name be?

One of the most important preconditions for having a successful online presence is the domain. It is what visitors will notice first when they visit your web page and what they will identify you with. The domain should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your site's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name as a rule contains two fragments - a Top-Level Domain Name (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 Domain Names that you should contemplate before you pick the domain you want. Your pick should be built upon the goal of your website and on its target spectators. Let's have a glimpse at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most common Top-Level Domain Names meant to designate a specific function - .com (business enterprises), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (firms), .info (informational web pages), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (qualified professionals), etc. As you can see, these TLDs encompass most spheres of life, so you should settle on the one that would describe the objective of your website best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them include extra procedures to demonstrate that you qualify to possess such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Settling on such a Top-Level Domain Name is good if your target group of website visitors is from a certain country. Many visitors would rather buy goods or services from a local web site, and if your target is Canada, for instance, opting for a .ca Top-Level Domain could increase the visits to your web site.

URL Forwarding

You can register different domains, which can redirect your visitors to a specific web page like domain.com, for instance. This would boost the traffic and decrease the likelihood of somebody snatching your website visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain with another Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not utilizing a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain Name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) demonstrate where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting supplier whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is utilizing at the moment. You can alter the DNSs of your domain name at all times. You can have your domain name registered with one firm and get the webspace hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain name and discover decent website hosting solutions somewhere else at a later time, you can point your domain name to the current provider's NSs right away.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name utilizes a given set of DNSs, all its domain name records will lead to the same web site hosting supplier. Some website hosting vendors, however, permit you to edit specific DNS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which exhibits on which web server your web site is located, whereas the MX records indicate which server handles the mail aliases related to your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new web site designer and he devises an .ASP site that will be situated on his personal Windows web hosting server, you may want to edit just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows hosting server, but your email accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux website hosting account. The .ASP platform is created by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows hosting server, although a Linux web hosting server would be far more dependable.

Cut-Rate Top-Level Domain Names Distributed by 'REN Hosting'

Only a small number of web hosting vendors enable you to modify particular domain name records and very frequently this an extra paid service. With REN Hosting , you have an immense array of Top-Level Domain Names to choose from and you can edit all DNS records or redirect the domains via a forwarding tool at no added cost. Therefore, 'REN Hosting' would be your finest pick when it comes to managing your domain name and to setting up a successful presence on the web.