Domains Explained

One of the most essential preconditions for creating a successful online presence is the domain name. It is what visitors will note first when they discover your site and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that notifies your web page's visitors what the website is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain name as a rule is composed of two parts - 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 several categories of Top-Level Domains that you should contemplate prior to picking the domain name you wish. Your pick should be based on the aim of your website and on its target viewers. Let's take a gaze at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most widespread Top-Level Domain Names intended to indicate a specific function - .com (commercial organizations), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (companies), .info (informative web pages), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (particular professions), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains encompass most realms of life, so you should settle on the one that would show the intention of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such domain names, but some of them contain extra procedures to show that you qualify to possess such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain name is good if your target group of visitors is from a particular country. Many visitors would like to purchase commodities or services from a local web page, and if your target is Canada, for example, opting for a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your site.

Domain Redirects

You can register a bunch of Top-Level Domains, which can redirect your visitors to a specific site like domain.com, for instance. This would raise the traffic and decrease the likelihood of someone pilfering your web site visitors by using the same name with a different TLD - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every domain name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) specify where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting firm whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is utilizing at the moment. You can swap the NSs of your domain name whenever you want. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and find decent website hosting packages somewhere else later, you can point your domain name to the current provider's NSs straight off.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a particular set of NSs, all its records will lead to the same web hosting provider. Some website hosting distributors, however, enable you to edit given records, such as the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which details on which hosting server your web page is located, whereas the MX records demonstrate which web server handles the e-mail box accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you appoint a new web site designer and he build an .ASP site that will be accommodated on his personal Windows hosting server, you may wish to edit solely the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Thus, 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 current Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is created by Microsoft and demands a Windows web hosting server, even though a Linux web server would be far more stable.

Affordable Domains Delivered by 'Benoks Hosting'

Just a small number of web hosting suppliers allow you to edit particular domain name server records and quite frequently this an extra paid service. With us, you have a wide array of Top-Level Domains to pick from and you can edit all domain name records or redirect the domain names through a redirection tool at no extra cost.