The Internet plays an important role in the life of a modern person. More than 30% of the world's population browses websites daily. For more convenient surfing on Internet resources, domains were invented that help to easily go to the desired site, entering only a few words, and not a long IP address of the server.
A domain is ...
The site domain is a combination of numbers, letters, and some special characters. The number of characters in the domain should vary from 2 to 63.
Domain registration is done using specialized online services. To do this, you only need to provide some personal data and choose a free domain. Also, these services help to know the age of the domain at the site address.
What are the domains?
A domain consists of 2 or more parts, which are also called levels:
- The first level includes symbols that indicate the domain belongs to any state, type of organization, etc. Such a variety helps to distinguish which field of activity the resource belongs to. Although recently the first-level domain is not always saying anything about the site.
- The second level of the domain is a unique identifier for the site (name). This level has all the serious Internet resources.
- The third level of the domain is used to highlight certain sections of the resource in the "mini-site". For example, a site forum can be displayed using a third-level domain as forum.site.ru instead of site.ru/forum.
You can find out the age of a domain, regardless of what level it belongs to.
What is the domain age and how to determine it?
The age of the domain is one of the key points in promoting an online resource in search engines. Search engines determine the level of authority of a site by knowing the age of the domain, how long it has been renewed, and how often new materials appear. More authoritative resources are displayed higher in search results.
You can find out the age of a domain using any services for registering them. It will indicate the registration date, domain expiration date and other useful information.
Before you determine how important the age of the domain will be for the Internet resource, you need to answer the question of exactly what goals the site is pursuing.
If the site is supposed to be used for a one-time “boom”, such as exploiting roads, splogs, and selling traffic, then the importance of a domain name is minimized, and you don’t have to pay attention to its age, because their life is not so long.
Also, the age of the domain name will not be important for resources intended for personal use. Sites with galleries of family photos, autobiographical pages are suitable for this category. Such sites are unlikely to be interesting to anyone and are intended for personal use only.
But in any of the cases, search engines will quickly find an Internet resource and include it in their search results.
There are several simple ways by which you can save the site’s position in the case when it was decided to switch to another domain:
- The domain name should be registered for the longest term;
- the domain name is no less important than its age, so words that are directly related to the subject of the site should be used in it;
- You can purchase a previously purchased domain that has a PR or TIC.