How important can an affordable domain be?

One of the most vital requirements for building a successful Internet presence is the domain name. It is what people will notice first when they come across your site and what they will associate you with. The domain name should be easy to remember, but should also be something that informs your web page's visitors what the web page is about.

Generic Top-Level Domain Names (gTLDs)

A domain as a rule consists of 2 parts - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for instance, ".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 contemplate prior to selecting the domain you want. Your choice should be built upon the purpose of your web site and on its target audience. Let's check out the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most popular TLDs intended to indicate a given function - .com (business establishments), .net (network infrastructures), .biz (firms), .info (informative sites), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia-Pacific region), .name (individuals or families), .pro (particular professions), and so on. As you can see, these Top-Level Domain Names cover most fields of life, so you should settle on the one that would depict the aim of your web site best. There is no limitation as to who can register such TLDs, but some of them involve additional procedures to demonstrate that you qualify to have such a domain (.mobi and .pro, for instance).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code TLDs, are country-specific Top-Level Domain Names. Each country has its own ccTLD. Getting such a domain name is good if your target group of web site visitors is from a specific country. Many people would prefer to buy goods or services from a local website, and if your target is Canada, for example, getting a .ca domain could boost the visits to your web page.

URL Redirects

You can register a bunch of domains, which can forward your web site's visitors to a specific website like domain.com, for example. This would boost the traffic and reduce the chance of somebody pinching your visitors by registering the same name with another Top-Level Domain - if you are not using a trademark.

Name Servers (NSs)

Every TLD has domain name records. The name server records (NS records, a.k.a. DNS records) specify where the domain name is hosted, i.e. they point to the hosting supplier whose name servers (NSs, also known as DNSs) it is utilizing now. You can substitute the NSs of your domain at any moment. You can have your domain registered with one provider and get the website hosting service itself from another. In this way, if you register your domain and find good website hosting plans somewhere else later, you can point your domain name to the new provider's DNSs at once.

Name Server Records (NS Records)

In general, as long as your domain uses a particular set of name servers, all its domain name records will lead to the same web space hosting distributor. Some hosting distributors, though, allow you to modify given NS records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain. The A record is an IP address, which displays on which hosting server your web page is located, whereas the MX records specify which web server handles the e-mail accounts associated with your domain name. For example, if you take on a new web designer and he creates an .ASP website that will be accommodated on his private Windows hosting server, you may wish to edit solely the Internet Protocol address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows web hosting server, but your e-mail address accounts or any sub-domain names like forum.domain.com or shop.domain.com will still be in your current Linux hosting account. The .ASP environment is created by Microsoft and requests a Windows web server, although a Linux web server would be far more reliable.

Low-Priced Top-Level Domains Delivered by 'Hosting By Teasso'

Just a number of web hosting vendors enable you to modify particular name server records and very frequently this an extra paid service. With Hosting By Teasso , you have a huge collection of Top-Level Domain Names to pick from and you can edit all domain name records or redirect the domains via a forwarding tool at no additional charge. That is why, 'Hosting By Teasso' would be your best pick when it comes to handling your domain name and to setting up a successful presence on the Internet.