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Domain Name Registration

What is a Domain Name?

Domain name is an identity in form of words for a website that is used instead of IP addresses (set of numbers such as 11.121.13.4) in the website’s URL. Generally a website is a set of remotely hosted files that are fetched through the IP address of the server where they reside. However, its very difficult and next to impossible to remember the Website URL beginning with IP address, also the URL becomes too long as it may contain a large path to those files. To avoid such hazzle, domain names are provided to mask those long IP based URLs with small human understandable words.

How Is a Domain mapped with a remote server?

Now the question would arise as to how a system connected to Internet understands the relationship between an IP and the domain targeting it? The answer is simple. Every domain is associated with Name Server that points to a Domain Name System (DNS) controller. This DNS controller maintains the list of related records such as A Record, CNAME Record, Mail Exchange (MX) Record, that tells the client terminal where to look for the required information.

How to obtain these Records?

It isn’t a rocket science to obtain these records. Generally when the domain and hosting service is taken from the same service provider, its handled automatically. However when the domain is registered through one service provider and hosting from other, the name servers of that hosting server needs to be associated with the domain through its control panel.

So does this mean that Domain doesn’t come along with web space?

Generally, people think that just registering a domain alone provides them Email IDs and web space to host their web pages. It is because many Third Party service providers quote a common cost for hosting and domain. Domains and web space/Email service are different entities. The governing body of domains are different than that of email service and web hosting.

Its like when you want to build a house, you need Land, Architecture plan and legal registration of your ownership over the land. Now the governing body of Land Registration is local government, whereas the land would be owned by a land lord who would sell the land to you. Applying these terms in website development, the land registration is similar to registering a Domain Name. Buying land from a land lord is similar to obtaining a web space to host your web pages, and Architecture plan is similar to the task of web design and development.

What are the benefits of registering a domain through Cybrent?

Before answering this question, we would ask you to please have a look at this question What to ask a vendor while Registering a Domain. The most important and crucial part in domain registration is the person who is providing the registration service.

Is he/she a vendor or just an agent.
Will he/she be accountable to the problems you face with the domain in terms of service?
Will he/she provide you full control over the domain you registered and own, or just provide you partial control over it?
Will he/she allow you to change the domain WhoIS details so that you can prove your ownership over that domain?

There may be client grabbers who may try to grab your attention through lucrative offers and tranquilize your ownership over the domain you register and pay for.

Cybrent on other hand takes complete responsibility of providing its clients the service and support regarding the issues related to the domain registered through Cybrent. The control panel provided by Cybrent covers all the crucial features required by the domain owner. Some of those feature’s being: