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Buying a domain name isn’t like buying a piece of furniture or a fancy meal: domain names are virtual real estate, and buying one is more like leasing a physical store for your business. You can’t own a domain in the same way you can own other property, but you can register it and renew it every year so you can use it forever. To register a domain name you visit a registrar, who will create the...
There are two important considerations when buying a domain name: domain transfer for exchanging ownership and escrow to manage payment. A good domain marketplace will handle both of these, facilitating payment through an escrow service that protects buyer and seller and offering a seamless, managed domain transfer.
So, you’ve got big ideas and plans for your new online project. But first things first – you need the perfect web address, right? And once you’re the proud owner of a new domain, you’ve got to decide which registrar you want to host it. This step is often brushed over, particularly by first-time domain owners, but it’s important. Domain registrars are the middlemen between you and the...
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. While a domain name refers to a website as a whole, a URL refers to the specific page of a website. Imagine if 123 Main Street wasn’t a whole home but a block of flats, and you wanted to send a postcard to your friend in apartment 13F. The full address would then be 13F, 123 Main Street. This new address would now point to a particular place inside the...
A top-level domain is the letters that come after your domain name and form the last bit of the web address. For example, in the domain names Atom.com, slideshare.net, and wikipedia.org, the top-level domains are “.com,” “.net,” and “.org” respectively. TLDs are one out of several layers in the DNS hierarchy. This hierarchy is like an inverted tree with the root at the top, followed by the TLD...
.Com is the gold standard for domains. .Coms are, in almost all circumstances, the first and best choice for anyone looking for an online home. But of course, nothing is ever that clear cut! There are a few reasons you might choose an alternative extenion over a .com, including international or country-specific operations, industry norms, and in some cases legitimate financial constraints or in...
If you’re wondering how to buy a domain name permanently, what you are about to learn will get you as close as possible. But before we jump into any technicalities, let’s go over the basics of what domain names are and what domain ownership means in practice.
CcTLDs tell more than what country a website is from. In most use cases, they make it easier for people within specific countries and regions to find relevant, localized information. Beyond that, some special ccTLDs are used to indicate the niche community to which a website belongs.
redirect takes anyone visiting an old or alternate web address and guides them to the primary domain. It all happens behind the scenes, so visitors don’t even know they’re being “redirected”. Redirects can be used when merging two sites, getting rid of old pages that are linked elsewhere on the web, making sure users end up on the homepage when they may otherwise have encountered an error, and...
if you’re starting a business and registering a domain name, then you might need to dig a little deeper. For example, you need to understand the domain name system, or DNS. Let’s start simple: the DNS is often likened to the phonebook of the internet, and it’s the way that browsers find out where to access website files. It’s just like how you’d look up someone’s phone number in the Yellow Pages...
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