How valuable is to find the best domain name?

One of the most vital prerequisites for building a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what visitors will perceive first when they stumble upon your web site and what they will link you with. The domain name should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your web page's visitors what the site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain typically has two constituents - 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 Name and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are several categories of Top-Level Domain Names that you should examine before you pick the domain you desire. Your choice should depend on the goal of your web site and on its target viewers. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most popular Top-Level Domain Names meant to show a specific function - .com (business entities), .net (networks), .biz (businesses), .info (informational web pages), .org (not-for-profit organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (qualified professionals), and so on. As you can see, these Top-Level Domain Names cover most fields of life, so you should go for the one that would denote the objective of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such TLDs, but some of them contain additional steps to ascertain that you qualify to have such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific Top-Level Domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a TLD is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a certain country. Many persons would elect to purchase goods or services from a local web site, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, registering a .ca Top-Level Domain could increase the visits to your web site.

Domain Forwarding

You can register several Top-Level Domains, which can forward your website's visitors to a given web page such as domain.com, for instance. This would boost the traffic and decrease the probability of someone pilfering your web site visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with another TLD - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every domain name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) reveal where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting vendor whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is utilizing at the moment. You can replace the DNSs of your domain whenever you like. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the webspace hosting service itself from another. Thus, if you register your domain and stumble upon decent website hosting services somewhere else at a later time, you can point your domain name to the new provider's DNSs instantly.

Domain Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain utilizes a certain pair of name servers, all its domain name server records will direct to the same web site hosting company. Some hosting distributors, however, allow you to modify specific NS records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which shows on which server your website is located, while the MX records exhibit which server tackles the e-mail box accounts related to your domain name. For example, if you engage a new site designer and he designs an .ASP web page that will be situated on his private Windows server, you may want to change just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Thus, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows server, but your e-mail boxes or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux web hosting account. The .ASP platform is created by Microsoft and requires a Windows server, although a Linux web hosting server would be way more reliable.

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Just a few web hosting vendors enable you to modify certain name server records and quite frequently this an additional paid service. With ReMARK HOSTING , you get a big selection of Top-Level Domains to choose from and you can edit all name server records or redirect the domains using a redirection tool at no extra cost. That is why, 'ReMARK HOSTING' would be your best choice when it comes to administering your domain and to setting up a successful presence on the web.