Domain

For the viewer, a domain can be seen as a coherent website to see. Superficially, it is an area on the Internet, which has its own name. You can recognize this by the independent link address. With the creation of your own domain, you can not only spread the name of your site more effectively, but also appear outwardly much more serious to the visitors of their site.

The sense of your own domain

Having your own website is not very difficult these days. The number of providers is hard to keep track of and everyone offers different offers regarding the capabilities and possibilities of servers and software. Which of them you need and which you don't depends mainly on how your website should be structured, what purpose it has to serve and what benefit you expect from it for yourself and your visitors. This results in a multitude of questions that need to be clarified in advance and which have a decisive influence on the choice of the right provider. In many cases, modular websites are also offered, which can be configured very easily.

A big advantage is that these Pages are often available free of charge. The disadvantage is, however, that you have only very limited options to customize the website according to your ideas. Especially the design is often subject to copyright and there are corresponding copyright notices. In addition, the advantage of the free provision by the provider is afflicted with a number of disadvantages. First, such a site has a lot of advertising. The advertising is necessary as a compromise, so that the provider can make its Costs can generate again. In addition, additional services and further offers for the expansion of the website are often offered. These ultimately cost much more than a total package, which is paid from the outset. The biggest disadvantage of such free websites, however, is that they are generally just subdomains. The link name is therefore usually built according to the scheme "www.name-des-anbieters/name-ihrer-subdomain.de". Often the ending is not even .de, but other, less known and, above all, less serious-looking endings are used.

The totality of these criteria means that you neither own a real domain, nor does your subdomain look legitimate. In particular, extensive advertising, which appears in the form of pop-ups or appears nationwide, can quickly deter users. So if you want to appear serious, and want to build your own real domain, it is crucial to invest something in it and to be able to use a comprehensive service and software offer and to get a domain according to the scheme "www.name-ihrer-domain.de".

Structure of a domain

The domain is a hierarchical structure on the Internet. The ending, usually .de in Germany, indicates the country in which this structure, known as the Top Level Domain, is located. Other domain endings are also widespread and are not necessarily related to the location, but often to the purpose and use of the website. The middle part of the name of a website is ultimately the most important part for you personally. While the ending of the Top Level Domain can be used unrandlich often, the middle part of the name, the Second Level Domain is unique. You can determine this part yourself and adapt it to the name your website should have. This way your website will be associated with the name faster and will be found faster by potential visitors. In addition, a domain is divided into further areas, often in a precisely defined order. This is the case as soon as you do not offer only one main page, but divide it into a number of sub-pages. These, hierarchically even lower parts of your domain are usually indicated with a / and are behind the Top Level Domain ending. These are third level domains that you create on your website yourself. Here too, each name, i.e. in the best case the name of each subpage, must be unique. In another case there would be overlaps and it would lead to a lot of display errors. With your own domain, which is sensibly structured and hosts an error-free website, you can draw attention to yourself or your site. This makes the site especially fast and easy to find, both by Google and potential visitors. Through this serious, ad-free and well thought-out structure, you can create a flawless Internet presence with your own domain.

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