- .net, .com, .tech, .etc
- Reasons to use less-common TLD:
- More availability.
- Unique
- SEO
- godaddy.com
- domains.google.com
- namecheap.com
- get.tech
- 1985 IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) launch 6 TLD.
- Higher level on DNS hierarchy.
- .com, .net, .org, .edu, , .mil, .gov
- It works as a "category" of TLD.
- 4 sub-categories:
- Generic Domains: for generic purposes (.com, .net, .org, .info)
- Restricted Generic Domains: for specific purposes (.pro, .biz, .name)
- Sponsored Domains: used by companies involved on an specific industry (.edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .aero, .cat, .asia, .mobi, .coop, .travel, .jobs)
- Infrastructure Domains: used to help establish DNS infrastructure (.arpa)
- More: (.app, .auto, .club, .digital, .futbol, .global, .promo, .shop, .site, .viajes, .yoga, etc.
- For websites that belong to a country.
- .ar, .br, .ca, .co, .cl, .de, .do, .es, .fr, .gr, .mc, .pe, .uk, .uy, etc
- Internasionalised domains that contains special characters.
- Multilingual domain, you can communicate people in their language.
- https://martin.**
- https://martin.cn
- Part of the domain name directly under TLD.
- aubo.pe
- .edu.pe
- Pary of the domain name on the left of the SLD.
- aubo.com.pe
- Advantages:
- It's the name of your company.
- It appears on your email address.
- Identity of your site.
- words or characters before the domain name.
- https://subdomain.principaldomian.com
- It helps to categorize the content of the website.
- mail.google.com, photos.google.com, translate.google.com, calendar.google.com
Good practice activate Privacy Protection.
- Hosting Provider: Company that stores website files so that they are allways available
- Providers:
- bluehost
- GoDaddy
- HostGator
- DreamHost
- Hostinger
- Have in common a cPanel, allows users to manage hosting service through this web application.
- Advice: choose at the beginning the cheapest plan, you can upgrade later.
- Use the File Manager or a FTP account from the cPanel to upload the website files.
- It can be created an email account.
- Connect the hosting provider with the domain name, go to something like Nameserver.
- Go to the page you buy the domain and search for Name Servers, and paste the Nameservers from the hosting provider.
- Done!