Website Hosting Domain Services

Domain Name Registration

 Often a hosting company will offer to register your domain name at the time you sign up for a hosting plan.

 In addition most offer a free domain name with the hosting package/plan.

Domain Parking

 Many hosting companies give you the option to 'park' your domain name without actually having your Web site up and running.

 Because you either don't have a Web site yet or you haven't told your domain name registrar what to do with you domain name he will give you a temporary Web site with a default Under Construction notice Web page .

 Most Domain Name registrars provide this facility as part of the registration fee.

 If they didn't then when you attempted to connect to the Web site you would get a browser error message saying domain not found which tends to imply that it doesn't exist when you know that it does.

Sub-domains

 A sub-domain is a subdirectory or folder created under the primary Domain account which is a fully operating Web site. A sub-domain is a perfect way to guide frequent visitors directly to their destination.

 In addition it creates a very professional appearance to your organisation. A sub-domain can appear as follows: service.yourname.co.uk or support.yourname.co.uk . See Subdomains for more details

Web forwarding

 You may already have a Web site if so Web forwarding allows you to 'forward' your domain name to a particular site hosted elsewhere on the Internet - e.g. on free space allocated by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Example:

http://www.yourdomainname.com

forwards to: http://freespace.onetel.net/your_user_name/http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/index.html

Normally the redirected domain name is masked so the user does not know they have been forwarded .

Domain Name Aliasing

 This is another name for Web forwarding. (see above).