Various Aspects to Domain Management

Various Aspects to Domain Management

Domain registration is generally very easy. In fact you can simply contact your local domain registrar and give your details like name, address, contact info and of course the name of the domain you want registered and your domain gets registered. Alternatively you can simply go online to your domain registrar’s website and if the facility is provided just fill out a simply online registration form with your name and other details and submit to register your domain. It’s as simple as that.

The problem arrives generally for most of us after the domain has been registered. We keep hearing all these words like name servers, domain pointing and forwarding, domain locking and other things which make it all a nightmare. But it is not as bad as you think. Domain management, once you understand the various aspects to it, is actually a very simply task. We look at some of the aspects in domain registration and management which you might have to go through while setting up your website.

Name Servers

Name servers are probably the most common words used after you have registered a domain. Your hosting company will tell you to change your domain name servers to their address in order for your web hosting service to function properly. So what are name servers?

To put it in simple language, name servers are the name of your server. It basically tells a domain where your website files are located so every time someone types your domain name in their browsers, the domain exactly knows where to go to show your website files – your homepage etc.

Name Servers generally look like this:

Assuming you are hosting with xyz hosting company then your name servers should generally be:

NS1.XYZ.COM

NS2.XYZ.COM

Note the NS could be followed by 3 or 4 depending on your hosting company. Your hosting company will generally provide their name servers to you when you register with them.

Domain Forwarding / Domain Redirect

Domain forwarding or also know as Domain redirect means if you have multiple domains registered and you want one of your domains to quite simply point to another domain that you have as an active website.

This technique allows you to have a single website be available under multiple domains. For example you can register your domain in both .com and .net format and then make the .net domain address forward to your .com website. That way you don’t have to spend on having two different websites hosted for each of your domain extensions.

Domain Locking

This is quite new to the world of domains but is a very important one and you should always be aware of your domain’s status – i.e. whether it is locked or unlocked.

Now, how does domain locking make a difference to you? Firstly if your domain is not locked, then malicious software or hackers have the ability to shift the domain in to their name or shift the domain’s name servers on to their web site which could cause lot of embarrassment to you. Not just that in some cases, hackers can pull the domain from your domain registrar to theirs, giving them full control of your domain.

In general you should always make sure your domain is in locked status. Of course when you need to change the domain’s name servers etc for your own use then you can unlock a domain. But always make sure moment your work is done and the name servers or any other information you are trying to change has been completed, immediately lock your domain. If you can’t lock or unlock your domain, please contact your domain registrar regarding this.

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Help answer the question about domain

What are the best websites to find public domain images of countries around the world?
I need to do a whole project containing exclusively images coming from public domain websites and I was just wondering what was the best source for that. I need pictures of many places around the world and if possible, relating to political events.

Images coming from Google are not accepted, they have to come from a public domain website and sometimes it's really hard.

Thanks in advance.

About Author

Lorenzo Modesto started in the Internet industry in 1996 and has held executive positions in sales, marketing and business development at industry leading service providers. He is the Managing Director of Domains a domain registration company.

20 Responses to “Various Aspects to Domain Management”

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    For the domain of logarithmic functions – the argument of a logarithmic function must be positive

    log base 3 of 9 = 2

    log base 10 of 0.001 = -3

    the argument must be positive => hence

    log ( f(x) ) will have a domain limited to f(x) > 0
    the rangle for the log function will be R for the full domain

    e^x is the inverse of the natural log function. It has a domain of R and a Range of R+

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  17. Inshii says:

    1. Create user groups for your users. eg. Finance, Production, Sales, etc.. Don't forget the SysAdmin group with administrator rights

    2. Assign users to the individual groups.

    3. For the folders that are to be shared, make sure the sharing assigns only those user groups that have rights to those folders.

    4. Create user accounts for even those people who are not supposed to access the domain shares, but do not assign them to any user group that has rights to access any of the domain folders.

    5. Remove 'Everyone' user group from the folder shares.

    You now have valid users assigned to user groups that are able to access folders they are supposed to. You also have invalid users who are not assigned to user groups, but belong to the 'Everyone' group, and they cannot access any folders within the domain. You now also have a way to log all the users (valid or invalid) when they login to the domain.

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    Speaking non-technically, a time-domain graph shows how a signal changes over time, whereas a frequency-domain graph shows how much of the signal lies within each given frequency band over a range of frequencies. A frequency-domain representation can also include information on the phase shift that must be applied to each sinusoid in order to be able to recombine the frequency components to recover the original time signal.

    A given function or signal can be converted between the time and frequency domains with a pair of mathematical operators called a transform. An example is the Fourier transform, which decomposes a function into the sum of a (potentially infinite) number of sine wave frequency components. The 'spectrum' of frequency components is the frequency domain representation of the signal. The inverse Fourier transform converts the frequency domain function back to a time function.

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