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How vital can an affordable domain be?

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

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain as a rule consists of 2 fragments - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain Name (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 categories of Top-Level Domains that you should contemplate prior to picking the domain name you want. Your choice should rest on the purpose of your site and on its target audience. Let's explore the gTLDs, or generic Top-Level Domain Names - these are the most popular Top-Level Domains intended to express a particular intention - .com (commercial establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (firms), .info (informative web sites), .org (organizations), .mobi (handheld devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (certain professions), etc. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains encompass most spheres of life, so you should settle on the one that would signify the objective of your web site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such Top-Level Domain Names, but some of them contain extra requirements to confirm that you qualify to register such a Top-Level Domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domain Names, are country-specific domain names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Selecting such a Top-Level Domain is good if your target group of website visitors is from a certain country. Many persons would like to buy commodities or services from a local web site, and if your goal is Canada, for instance, settling on a .ca domain could boost the visits to your web page.

Domain Name Redirection

You can register several TLDs, which can send your website's visitors to a certain site such as domain.com, for instance. This would increase the traffic and decrease the chance of somebody pinching your website visitors by registering the same SLD with a different Top-Level Domain Name - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) disclose where the domain is hosted, i.e. they point to the web hosting vendor whose name servers (NSs, a.k.a. DNSs) it is utilizing at present. You can swap the DNSs of your domain whenever you want. You can have your domain registered with one firm and get the website hosting service itself from another. So, if you register your domain name and encounter good website hosting packages someplace else afterwards, you can point your domain to the new company's NSs instantly.

Domain Name Server Records (DNS Records)

In general, as long as your domain name utilizes a given pair of NSs, all its records will point to the same web hosting supplier. Some web site hosting distributors, though, enable you to modify certain NS records, such as the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an Internet Protocol address, which reveals on which web server your site is situated, whereas the MX records designate which server handles the mail accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you appoint a new web site designer and he sets up an .ASP web site that will be situated on his private Windows web server, you may want to alter only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain name. Hence, www.domain.com will point to the Windows web server, but your email address accounts or any sub-domains such as forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your present Linux hosting account. The .ASP environment is developed by Microsoft and necessitates a Windows server, although a Linux hosting server would be way more stable.

Affordable TLDs Brought by 'Speedy Mice'

Only a number of web hosting companies allow you to edit specific name server records and quite often this an extra paid service. With Speedy Mice , you get a vast assortment of Top-Level Domains to pick from and you can edit all domain name server records or forward the domains via a forwarding tool at no additional charge. That is why, 'Speedy Mice' would be your best pick when it comes to handling your domain name and to establishing a successful presence on the World Wide Web.