How To Register A Domain Name

Registering a domain name - How it works

 Think of a good name you want for your website      

A domain name must be unique. Prepare a few changes - just in case the name is taken by others.

Make a search on one of the website registrars (ie. GoDaddy).

If your chosen domain name is taken, you can order it instantly.

Pay a registration fee, between $ 10 - $ 35 depends on the TLD (usually using PayPal or credit card).

You are now finished with the registration process.

Then you need to point the domain name for your web hosting (changing the DNS record).

How does domain name registration works (in detail)?

Registering a domain name is essentially like owning a small slice of real estate on the Internet and, as in the real estate market, consumers will have to pay a lot of information about themselves and pay for the privilege to claim their corner of the Internet public space.

domain registration guidelines are not set on a pre-record basis, but are determined by the ICANN or ICANN. This governing body is essentially a global regulator of best practices for registrars, hosting providers and customers who interact with them.

By the standards of the organization, all customers registering a domain name must be ready to provide contact information for themselves, their organization, their business, and even their employers in some cases. For customers looking to register a specific domain name option in the country (such as ".us" or ".co.uk"), a good part of the registration process will be devoted to determining whether or not the customer is a resident of this country and therefore legally allowed to buy one of its top-level domains specific to each country (will talk about later).

And that should hammer a secondary point for consumers. Although there are hundreds of available suffixes domain names (such as ".com" or ".net), many of these areas have specific registration requirements. For example, only organizations can register a ".org" domain name, and only US citizens can register a domain name that ends in ".us". Failing to adhere to the guidelines and requirements for each type of field when effective registration and payment process will result in the domain name being "released" in the domain name pool available; the customer will choose a top level domain for which they actually qualify, or cancel their purchase completely.

During the registration process, it is also important to have information directly from a web host as this information will be needed when filling in DNS and MX record information during registration.

Both records determine which content server web hosting is displayed when a user navigates to the field and the way email is sent, received and sent using this hosting plan and domain name associated. Inaccurate information will result in errors and page load failures.

 TLD, TLDcc, GTLD, And Sub Domains

What is Top Level Domains (TLD)?

Returning to our previous examples: Alexa.com, Linux.org, WebRevenue.co, eLearningEuropa.info, yahoo.co.uk, all the examples above end with an "extension" different - .com, .org, .net , .biz ... and so on.

We call this "extension" as top-level domain (shortform: TLD).

Examples of other TLDs include .uk, .ws, .co.jp, .com.sg, .tv, .edu, .co, .com.my and .mobi.

While most of these TLDs are open to public registration, there are strict regulations on some domain registration.

For example, registration of national top-level domains (such as .co.uk for the UK) are restricted to citizens of the corresponding country; and activities with such areas of the site are governed by local regulations and cyber laws.

Some extensions of these TLDs are used to describe the "features" of the site - as .biz for businesses, .edu for education (schools, universities, colleagues, etc.), .org for the public organization, and country code top level domain names for locations.

And that’s not all. We now have more than 1,000+ generic TLDs (gTLD) opened to public, including .BAR, .FOREX, .CLUB, .COLLEGE, .REST, .WEBSITE, .WIEN, .XYZ, and so on. ICANNpublishes a number of case studies (done by its partners) here, it’s interesting reads if you are interested to find out more.

Country Code TLDs

The list of top-level domain country codes (ccTLD) extensions are (in alphabet order):

.ac .ad .ae .af .ag .ai .al .am .an .ao .aq .ar .as .at .au .aw .ax .az

.ba .bb .bd .be .bf .bg .bh .bi .bj .bm .bn .bo .br .bs .bt .bw .by .bz

.ca .cc .cd .cf .cg .ch .ci .ck .cl .cm .cn .co .cr .cu .cv .cx .cy .cz .de .dj .dk .dm .do .dz .ec .ee .eg .er .es .et .eu

.fi .fj .fk .fm .fo .fr

.ga .gd .ge .gf .gg .gh .gi .gl .gm .gn .gp .gq .gr .gs .gt .gu .gw .gy

.hk .hm .hn .hr .ht .hu

.id .ie .il .im .in .io .iq .ir .is .it

.je .jm .jo .jp

.ke .kg .kh .ki .km .kn .kp .kr .kw .ky .kz

.la .lb .lc .li .lk .lr .ls .lt .lu .lv .ly

.ma .mc .md .me .mg .mh .mk .ml .mm .mn .mo .mp .mq .mr .ms .mt .mu .mv .mw .mx .my .mz

.na .nc .ne .nf .ng .ni .nl .no .np .nr .nu .nz . om .pa .pe .pf .pg .ph .pk .pl .pn .pr .ps .pt .pw .py

.qa .re .ro .rs .ru .rw .sa .sb .sc .sd .se .sg .sh .si .sk .sl .sm .sn .sr .st .sv .sy .sz

.tc .td .tf .tg .th .tj .tk .tl .tm .tn .to .tr .tt .tv .tw .tz .ua .ug .uk .us .uy .uz

.va .vc .ve .vg .vi .vn .vu .wf .ws .ye .za .zm .zw

Domain vs Sub Domain

Take mail.yahoo.com for example - is the yahoo.com domain, mail.yahoo.com in this case, is the subdomain. A domain must be unique (for example, there can be no one Yahoo.com) and must be registered with an estate agent (eg Godaddy); whereas for sub-domains, users can freely add on top of the existing domain as long as their web host provides the service.

Some would subdomains are the areas "third level" in the sense that they are simply "subfolders" in the domain root directory, normally used to organize the content of your website in different languages or different categories. However, this is not the case for many, including search engines - it is known that the search engines (ie Google) deal subdomain as an independent domain other than the primary domain.

Terms of Domain Name

To quickly recap on what we have just learned –

Website Domain	Name	Subdomain	TLD	ccTLD
yahoo.com	Yaho	–	.com	–
mail.yahoo.com	Yahoo	mail	.com	–
finance.yahoo.com	Yahoo	finance	.com	–
yahoo.co.jp	Yahoo	–	–	.co.jp