If you desire to launch a site, this implies that you need a domain name. A domain name is a human-identifiable name that you type in your web browser's location bar when you want to go to a particular web site.
Why Do You Require a Domain?
This is a topic I broach due to the fact that a week ago my boss suggested the idea of launching a web page for our new project. That itself is not an issue, the issue is that he wants a site, but has not made up his mind yet about what it should look like, what it should encompass, and so on. All that he revealed to me was the name of the web site - its domain. So, we now have an address for a yet-to-be-established web site and nothing aside from that.
The Domain Name
Each website is hosted on a physical machine. That physical machine has its own physical address, known also as an Internet Protocol address. Accessing a web site by typing the Internet Protocol address of the physical machine in your browser, though, is not the best and most suitable thing to do, so that was how and why domain names appeared. So, a domain corresponds to an IP address on the Internet. After it has been registered, of course.
Registering a Domain Name
To register a domain, you first have to settle on a domain registration provider. Lonex Hosting has an optimal solution for my present and future projects - they provide a Domain Manager plan, which can be effortlessly upgraded to a web hosting plan at a later time - when my boss eventually reaches a decision about what function the website will have.
So, to register a domain name, you have to pick a name for your web site. Then, you need to pick a top-level domain name - this is what comes after the dot. For instance, in 'amazon.com', '.com' is the top-level domain name (TLD). Apparently, '.com' stands for 'company', '.net' stands for 'network', '.org' stands for 'organization', etc.
Once you've picked your domain name and your future domain registrar, you have to verify whether the domain name you would like to register is available for registration, since someone else might have registered it already, no matter how unpleasant it might be. Each domain name registrar, including Lonex, has a search tool at their signup page, which checks the availability of a particular domain. To continue with the registration of a domain name, you need to specify certain registrant details - the name, the physical address, the email and the phone number of the owner of the domain.
You've Registered a Domain... Now What?
I registered .com, .net, .info and .biz domains for our project, as per the request of my still-uncertain-about-the-purpose-of-the-future-website boss. I tested the domain name administration interface Lonex is offering and found it extremely easy to use - everything is coherently structured and, from what I noticed in the web hosting CP demo at their web site, once we upgrade to a cheap hosting plan, it will stay the same, just with a lot more features. This, thank God, will spare me quite a bit of discomfort from having to manage my domain and web hosting account separately. So, while waiting for the boss to reach a decision about at least what the web site should include, I was pleased to discover that the domain name management tool offers DNS administration and domain name renewal options, and - an extremely valuable feature (!) - a parked domain template, which I used in order to set up a "Coming Soon" page for our domains.
Country-Specific Top-Level Domain Names
I was very pleased to find that Lonex is offering multiple country-code top-level domain names, because the project the web site is intended for is international. Country-code Top-Level Domains are handed over to domestic registry operators, which allow domain registration suppliers to register domains, usually at rates that are lower than those offered to the end users. There are many country-specific domain names: .co.uk for the United Kingdom, .se for Sweden, .de for Germany, .us for the United States, .ca for Canada, .com.au for Australia, and so on. This, I suppose, will make my boss happy since we will be able to create a local version of the website for each country where the project will be introduced.
Why Do You Require a Domain?
This is a topic I broach due to the fact that a week ago my boss suggested the idea of launching a web page for our new project. That itself is not an issue, the issue is that he wants a site, but has not made up his mind yet about what it should look like, what it should encompass, and so on. All that he revealed to me was the name of the web site - its domain. So, we now have an address for a yet-to-be-established web site and nothing aside from that.
The Domain Name
Each website is hosted on a physical machine. That physical machine has its own physical address, known also as an Internet Protocol address. Accessing a web site by typing the Internet Protocol address of the physical machine in your browser, though, is not the best and most suitable thing to do, so that was how and why domain names appeared. So, a domain corresponds to an IP address on the Internet. After it has been registered, of course.
Registering a Domain Name
To register a domain, you first have to settle on a domain registration provider. Lonex Hosting has an optimal solution for my present and future projects - they provide a Domain Manager plan, which can be effortlessly upgraded to a web hosting plan at a later time - when my boss eventually reaches a decision about what function the website will have.
So, to register a domain name, you have to pick a name for your web site. Then, you need to pick a top-level domain name - this is what comes after the dot. For instance, in 'amazon.com', '.com' is the top-level domain name (TLD). Apparently, '.com' stands for 'company', '.net' stands for 'network', '.org' stands for 'organization', etc.
Once you've picked your domain name and your future domain registrar, you have to verify whether the domain name you would like to register is available for registration, since someone else might have registered it already, no matter how unpleasant it might be. Each domain name registrar, including Lonex, has a search tool at their signup page, which checks the availability of a particular domain. To continue with the registration of a domain name, you need to specify certain registrant details - the name, the physical address, the email and the phone number of the owner of the domain.
You've Registered a Domain... Now What?
I registered .com, .net, .info and .biz domains for our project, as per the request of my still-uncertain-about-the-purpose-of-the-future-website boss. I tested the domain name administration interface Lonex is offering and found it extremely easy to use - everything is coherently structured and, from what I noticed in the web hosting CP demo at their web site, once we upgrade to a cheap hosting plan, it will stay the same, just with a lot more features. This, thank God, will spare me quite a bit of discomfort from having to manage my domain and web hosting account separately. So, while waiting for the boss to reach a decision about at least what the web site should include, I was pleased to discover that the domain name management tool offers DNS administration and domain name renewal options, and - an extremely valuable feature (!) - a parked domain template, which I used in order to set up a "Coming Soon" page for our domains.
Country-Specific Top-Level Domain Names
I was very pleased to find that Lonex is offering multiple country-code top-level domain names, because the project the web site is intended for is international. Country-code Top-Level Domains are handed over to domestic registry operators, which allow domain registration suppliers to register domains, usually at rates that are lower than those offered to the end users. There are many country-specific domain names: .co.uk for the United Kingdom, .se for Sweden, .de for Germany, .us for the United States, .ca for Canada, .com.au for Australia, and so on. This, I suppose, will make my boss happy since we will be able to create a local version of the website for each country where the project will be introduced.
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