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How essential can an affordable domain name be?

One of the most important prerequisites for having a successful web presence is the domain name. It is what people will notice first when they stumble upon your web site and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your website's visitors what the web site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain as a rule has 2 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 and "domain" is the SLD. There are several sets of Top-Level Domain Names that you should contemplate prior to picking the domain name you wish. Your decision should be based on the intention of your web page and on its target spectators. Let's examine the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most common TLDs intended to denote a specific intention - .com (commercial entities), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (firms), .info (informational web pages), .org (organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (individuals or families), .pro (certain professions), etc. As you can see, these TLDs encompass most realms of life, so you should pick the one that would portray the purpose of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such TLDs, but some of them involve extra requirements to ascertain that you qualify to register such a TLD (.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. Settling on such a domain name is good if your target group of site visitors is from a specific country. Many persons would sooner buy commodities or services from a local web site, and if your aim is Canada, for instance, settling on a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your web page.

Domain Redirects

You can register different Top-Level Domain Names, which can send your web site's visitors to a certain site such as domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and decrease the likelihood of somebody pinching your visitors by registering the same name with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each Top-Level Domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) show where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting company whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using at the moment. You can switch the NSs of your domain at any time. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the web page hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain name and stumble upon good website hosting packages somewhere else at a later time, you can point your domain to the present provider's NSs at once.

Name Server Records (DNS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name uses a given set of name servers, all its domain name records will point to the same webspace hosting firm. Some web page hosting distributors, however, permit you to modify certain domain name server records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which demonstrates on which web server your site is situated, while the MX records reveal which hosting server handles the e-mail address accounts related to your domain name. For example, if you engage a new web site designer and he designs an .ASP website that will be situated on his personal Windows web server, you may want to edit solely the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. In this way, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows server, but your e-mailboxes or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux site hosting account. The .ASP environment is devised by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows server, although a Linux hosting server would be far more stable.

Affordable Domains Brought by 'LiquidNet Ltd Hosting'

Just a few web hosting companies allow you to modify particular domain name records and very often this an extra paid service. With LiquidNet Ltd Hosting , you have an extensive assortment of TLDs to pick from and you can modify all domain records or forward the domain names through a redirection tool at no additional charge. For that reason, 'LiquidNet Ltd Hosting' would be your finest choice when it comes to administering your domain name and to building a successful presence on the web.