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How crucial can an affordable domain name be?

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

Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)

A domain typically has two constituents - a Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). If you have domain.com, for example, ".com" is the TLD and "domain" is the Second-Level Domain. There are a couple of groups of TLDs that you should contemplate prior to choosing the domain you want. Your selection should depend on the purpose of your site and on its target audience. Let's explore the gTLDs, or generic TLDs - these are the most common Top-Level Domain Names meant to express a particular function - .com (commercial organizations), .net (networks), .biz (firms), .info (informative websites), .org (non-profit organizations), .mobi (mobile devices), .asia (the Asia Pacific), .name (individuals or relatives), .pro (given walks of life), and so on. As you can perceive, these Top-Level Domains cover most realms of life, so you should opt for the one that would show the aim of your site best. There is no restriction as to who can register such Top-Level Domains, but some of them include additional procedures to show that you are eligible to have such a Top-Level Domain Name (.mobi and .pro, for example).

Country-code Top-Level Domain Names (ccTLDs)

The ccTLDs, or country-code Top-Level Domains, are country-specific TLDs. Each country has its own ccTLD. Registering such a Top-Level Domain is good if your target group of site visitors is from a given country. Many visitors would sooner buy commodities or services from a local website, and if your goal is Canada, for example, selecting a .ca domain name could boost the visits to your site.

URL Redirects

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

Name Servers (NSs)

Every Top-Level Domain Name has domain records. The name server records (NS records, also known as DNS records) display 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 present. You can modify the DNSs of your domain at any time. You can have your domain registered with one company and get the site hosting service itself from another. Therefore, if you register your domain and encounter good website hosting solutions someplace else at a later time, you can point your domain to the new provider's NSs straight off.

Name Server Records (NS Records)

On the whole, as long as your domain uses a specific set of name servers, all its name server records will lead to the same hosting supplier. Some hosting distributors, though, allow you to edit given domain name server records, like the A records and the MX records of your domain name. The A record is an IP address, which displays on which web server your web page is situated, while the MX records demonstrate which web hosting server handles the mail aliases related to your domain name. For instance, if you engage a new website designer and he build an .ASP site that will be accommodated on his private Windows server, you may wish to edit only the IP address (the A record) but not the MX records of your domain. Hence, www.domain.com will direct to the Windows web server, but your electronic mails 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 environment is designed by Microsoft and calls for a Windows hosting server, although a Linux server would be way more dependable.

Affordable TLDs Offered by 'Central Target'

Only a few web hosting companies enable you to modify certain name server records and very frequently this an extra paid service. With Central Target , you have an extensive collection of Top-Level Domains to choose from and you can modify all NS records or forward the domains using a forwarding tool at no added charge. Therefore, 'Central Target' would be your best choice when it comes to administering your domain name and to building a successful presence on the web.