How crucial can an affordable domain name be?

One of the most important preconditions for establishing a successful Internet presence is the domain. It is what visitors will spot first when they come across your site and what they will link you with. The domain should be easy to memorize, but should also be something that notifies your website's visitors what the site is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain name as a rule has two components - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain Name and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain Name. There are several sets of TLDs that you should examine before you pick the domain name you want. Your choice should depend on the intention of your website and on its target spectators. Let's have a glimpse at the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most common TLDs aimed to denote a specific intention - .com (business enterprises), .net (networks), .biz (corporations), .info (informational sites), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (persons or relatives), .pro (certain walks of life), etc. As you can see, these Top-Level Domains cover most fields of life, so you should pick the one that would indicate the intention of your web page best. There is no restriction as to who can register such Top-Level Domains, but some of them contain additional requirements to show that you qualify to own such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

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

Domain Forwarding

You can register a bunch of domain names, which can send your site's visitors to a certain web site such as domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and lower the risk of somebody stealing your web site visitors by registering the same Second-Level Domain Name with a different Top-Level Domain - if you are not availing of a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain has domain records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) indicate where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting vendor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is using now. You can swap the name servers of your domain at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one firm and get the web space hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and detect decent website hosting plans somewhere else afterwards, you can point your domain to the current company's NSs instantaneously.

Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain uses a specific set of DNSs, all its DNS records will lead to the same web space hosting distributor. Some site hosting companies, though, permit you to modify certain NS records, among them the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which details on which web hosting server your website is situated, while the MX records reveal which server handles the electronic mail accounts related to your domain name. For instance, if you appoint a new site designer and he develops an .ASP site that will be accommodated on his private Windows server, you may wish to alter just the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Thus, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows web hosting server, but your mailbox accounts or any sub-domains like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux website hosting account. The .ASP platform is invented by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows web server, even though a Linux server would be far more dependable.

Low-cost TLDs Distributed by 'MamaTech'

Only a small number of web hosting companies allow you to edit specific name server records and quite often this an additional paid service. With MamaTech , you have an extensive selection of Top-Level Domain Names to pick from and you can edit all records or redirect the domains using a redirection tool at no additional cost. Therefore, 'MamaTech' would be your finest choice when it comes to administering your domain and to creating a successful presence on the web.