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How important is to discover the best domain name?

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

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain traditionally consists of two parts - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the Top-Level Domain and "domain" is the SLD. There are a couple of categories of Top-Level Domain Names that you should consider prior to choosing the domain name you want. Your choice should depend on the purpose of your web page and on its target audience. Let's take a glimpse at the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domains - these are the most typical Top-Level Domains aimed to denote a given purpose - .com (commercial establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (firms), .info (informational web sites), .org (organizations of a non-commercial character), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (particular professions), and so on. As you can perceive, these TLDs encompass most fields of life, so you should pick the one that would illustrate the objective of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such Top-Level Domains, but some of them contain extra procedures to prove that you are eligible to register such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, 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 certain country. Many folks would sooner buy goods or services from a local web site, and if your target is Canada, for instance, settling on a .ca domain name could increase the visits to your web site.

Domain Name Redirects

You can register a bunch of domain names, which can forward your web site's visitors to a specific web site like domain.com, for instance. This would increase the traffic and decrease the risk of somebody pinching your visitors by using the same Second-Level Domain with another Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Each and every domain name has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, aka DNS records) disclose where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting provider whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is using at the moment. You can swap the NSs of your domain at any moment. You can have your domain name registered with one provider and get the web site hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain name and come across decent website hosting solutions somewhere else later, you can point your domain name to the present provider's NSs right away.

Name Server Records (DNS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a given pair of name servers, all its NS records will point to the same hosting company. Some web hosting distributors, though, allow you to modify specific NS records, including the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which details on which hosting server your web page is hosted, whereas the MX records display which web server handles the e-mail aliases associated with your domain name. For instance, if you engage a new web site designer and he devises an .ASP site that will be hosted on his personal Windows hosting server, you may wish to change solely the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. So, www.domain.com will point to the Windows server, but your email box accounts or any sub-domains like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux web page hosting account. The .ASP environment is created by Microsoft and calls for a Windows web hosting server, even though a Linux hosting server would be far more stable.

Cheap Top-Level Domains Distributed by 'Bald Guy Hosting'

Only a small number of web hosting companies enable you to modify specific DNS records and very often this an additional paid service. With Bald Guy Hosting , you have a wide selection of Top-Level Domains to select from and you can edit all domain name records or redirect the domains through a redirection tool at no added cost. That is why, 'Bald Guy Hosting' would be your best pick when it comes to administering your domain name and to creating a successful presence on the web.