How vital can an affordable domain be?

One of the most important preconditions for establishing a successful online presence is the domain. It is what people will mark first when they chance upon your website and what they will identify you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that tells your visitors what the site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain traditionally contains 2 components - 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 a couple of sets of Top-Level Domain Names that you should examine before you pick the domain name you wish. Your pick should be based on the goal of your website and on its target audience. Let's have a look at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most typical Top-Level Domain Names aimed to express a given purpose - .com (commercial enterprises), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (corporations), .info (informative web sites), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (particular walks of life), and so on. As you can perceive, these TLDs encompass most spheres of life, so you should select the one that would designate the purpose of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such TLDs, but some of them include additional requirements to demonstrate that you qualify to keep 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 domains. Each country has its own ccTLD. Opting for such a Top-Level Domain Name is good if your target group of visitors is from a given country. Many persons would prefer to buy goods or services from a local web site, and if your aim is Canada, for instance, opting for a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your site.

URL Redirects

You can register a number of Top-Level Domains, which can forward your site's visitors to a specific site such as domain.com, for instance. This would increase the traffic and lower the likelihood of someone pinching your site visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain Name with a different TLD - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each Top-Level Domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) specify where the domain name is hosted, in other words they point to the hosting company whose name servers (NSs, aka DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can modify the NSs of your domain whenever you want. You can have your domain registered with one provider and get the web space hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and discover decent website hosting plans someplace else later, you can point your domain name to the current provider's name servers immediately.

Name Server Records (DNS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain name utilizes a certain pair of name servers, all its records will point to the same website hosting provider. Some web site hosting companies, though, permit you to edit given name server records, like 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 site is hosted, while the MX records demonstrate which web server handles the electronic mail accounts associated with your domain name. For instance, if you hire a new site designer and he devises an .ASP site that will be situated on his own Windows server, you may want to edit just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your mailboxes or any sub-domain names like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux web space hosting account. The .ASP platform is developed by Microsoft and requests a Windows web hosting server, although a Linux server would be far more stable.

Affordably Priced Domains Provided by 'AIDA Host'

Only a number of web hosting providers allow you to modify particular NS records and very frequently this an additional paid service. With AIDA Host , you have a big assortment of Top-Level Domain Names to pick from and you can edit all DNS records or redirect the domain names through a forwarding tool at no added cost. That is why, 'AIDA Host' would be your best pick when it comes to handling your domain name and to building a successful presence on the World Wide Web.