How crucial can an affordable domain be?

One of the most essential prerequisites for having a successful Internet presence is the domain name. It is what people will spot first when they stumble upon your web site and what they will relate you with. The domain should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that informs your visitors what the web site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain name as a rule has 2 fragments - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are a couple of groups of Top-Level Domains that you should examine before you choose the domain name you wish. Your choice should rest on the aim of your web site and on its target viewers. Let's take a glance at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most widespread Top-Level Domain Names intended to signify a given intention - .com (business organizations), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (companies), .info (informational websites), .org (organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (persons or families), .pro (certain professions), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains cover most realms of life, so you should opt for the one that would illustrate the aim of your site best. There is no limitation as to who can register such domain names, but some of them contain additional steps to ascertain that you are eligible to register such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific Top-Level Domain Names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a Top-Level Domain is good if your target group of site visitors is from a particular country. Many individuals would prefer to buy commodities or services from a local website, and if your goal is Canada, for example, opting for a .ca TLD could increase the visits to your web site.

Domain Redirection

You can register different Top-Level Domains, which can forward your website's visitors to a certain web site like domain.com, for example. This would increase the traffic and lower the possibility of someone stealing your web page visitors by using the same name with a different Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) disclose 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 now. You can swap the name servers of your domain at any moment. 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 name and discover good website hosting solutions somewhere else later, you can point your domain name to the present company's DNSs right away.

Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name uses a given pair of NSs, all its records will point to the same web space hosting company. Some web hosting suppliers, however, enable you to edit specific name server records, such as the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which discloses on which hosting server your site is situated, whereas the MX records specify which web hosting server tackles the e-mail addresses related to your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new web site designer and he develops an .ASP web site that will be situated on his own Windows web server, you may want to modify only the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your mails or any sub-domain names 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 requires a Windows hosting server, even though a Linux web hosting server would be far more reliable.

Inexpensive TLDs Brought by 'Heartland Web Hosting'

Just a number of web hosting vendors permit you to modify certain records and very often this an extra paid service. With Heartland Web Hosting , you have a big selection of Top-Level Domain Names to select from and you can edit all domain name records or redirect the domain names via a forwarding tool at no extra charge. Because of that, 'Heartland Web Hosting' would be your finest pick when it comes to handling your domain name and to establishing a successful presence on the World Wide Web.