You can look at a domain name like the address of building! It’s the way people find your business or home. When looking for a website, you type in the domain name and you get taken to it.
If we look to your domain name as an address, then your web hosting service is the actual, physical building. Once your domain name is set to point to your server, you’ll get taken to the said website. If not for domain names, we would have to access websites by their IP addresses, which would be way too hard to memorise.
Almost every website you use in your day to day life has a domain name. For example, the name of a company is Twitter, while their domain name is twitter.com
There can be many different kinds of domain names, but all of them consist of two main parts. The label and the TLD. In the case of hostinger.in, the label would be hostinger, while the TLD is .in. Extensions or top-level domains are the strings of text that go after the label.
There are millions of registered domain names. The architecture of these systems is managed by ICAAN or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Every now and then ICAAN announces a new set of officially recognized generic TLDs (gTLD). Some of the more recent ones are .bike, .clothing, .guru and others.
There is a nearly unlimited amount of potential domain names, but some of the more popular TLD and word pairings are reserved. For example, it’s quite hard to find a domain with the .com TLD that has a dictionary word as the label.
To register a domain, you need to do it through a recognized and approved registrar, such as Hostinger. Once you do that, you have the rights to use the domain for a set period.
Once you become the proud owner of your very own domain, you need to point it to the server which will host your website. This process can take up to 72 hours. It all depends on how quickly internet providers update their records.
A domain name can do more than just point visitors to your website! You can create subdomains e.g. subdomain.domain.in, or set up a domain based email! You can also set up forwarders, which will help people get to your website if they type in the wrong TLD.
An important thing to keep in mind is that when you register a domain name - it is your property. That means you can take a domain from a registrar you purchased it at and move the domain name over to a different hosting provider.
When forming an online presence, having a good domain name is incredibly important. It’s the first impression you make to potential clients. Nothing looks word than a free subdomain like brand.wordpress.com. When you invest in a domain name, you show your visitors that you care about your brand.
Another good reason for having your domain name is the fact that you will always be in control. E.g. if you are an eBay reseller and the company all of a sudden changes their terms, making them no longer in your favour, you might run into trouble. But when you have your own domain or website, you’ll be the one making the changes!
It gives you other kinds of freedom as well! Once the domain name is yours, you get to control all associated email addresses, subdomains and other related features. You don’t need to rely on anyone else!
Lastly, having your own domain name gives you one more massive benefit! It can change the way your website ranks in search engine result pages! When you get a personal domain name, you get the ranking for your specific website, and not someone else's. Keep in mind, that when you think you know what domain name you want, you should get it as soon as possible! The longer your domain name exists - the better search result rank it will have!
When using our domain checker for the first time, you shouldn’t think about TLDs. Instead, take the time to come up with a few domain name ideas that would work for your website.
Once you have a couple of options in mind, simply type one of them into the domain checker and click “check it”. Our tool will give you the available domains with that specific label. It will highlight both the ones that are taken and available for registration.
But that’s not all! Our domain checker will go the extra mile and provide suggestions based on your initial search term! This might be a great way to discover ideas that you didn’t think about. If a domain name you want is taken, this feature will definitely come in handy.
Hostinger’s domain checker is completely free! Go ahead and experiment, unleash your creativity and find that perfect name.
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