The Internet plays an important role in the life of a modern person. More than 30% of the world's population browses websites every day. For more convenient surfing on Internet resources, domains were invented to help you easily go to the desired site by entering only a couple of words, and not a long IP address of the server.
Domain is…
The website domain is a combination of numbers, letters and some special characters. The number of characters in the domain must range from 2 to 63.
Domains are registered using specialized online services. To do this, you only need to provide some personal data and select a free domain. Also, these services help to find out the age of the domain at the site address.
What are domains?
A domain consists of 2 or more parts, also called levels:
- The first level includes symbols that indicate that the domain belongs to any state, type of organization, etc. This diversity helps to distinguish which field of activity the resource belongs to. Although lately, the first-level domain has not always said anything about the site.
- The second level of the domain is uniquesite ID (name). All serious Internet resources have this level.
- The third level of the domain is used to highlight certain sections of the resource into a "mini-site". For example, a site forum can be displayed using a 3rd level domain like forum.site.ru instead of site.ru/forum.
You can find out the age of a domain no matter what level it belongs to.
What is the age of a domain and how to determine it?
Domain age is one of the key points in promoting an Internet resource in search engines. Search engines determine the level of authority of a site by knowing the age of a domain, how long it has been extended, and how often new content appears. More authoritative resources appear higher in search results.
You can find out the age of a domain with the help of any services for their registration. The registration dates, the expiration date of the domain and other useful information will be indicated there.
Before determining how important the age of a domain will be for an Internet resource, it is necessary to answer the question of what goals the site is pursuing.
If the site is supposed to be used for a one-time "boom", as, for example, doras, splogs, traffic sales are exploited, then the importance of the domain name is minimized, and it is even less necessary to pay attention to its age, because their life not as durable.
Also, the age of the domain name will not be important for resources intended for personal use. This category includes sites with galleries of family photos, autobiographical pages. Such sites are unlikely to be of interest to anyone and are intended for personal use only.
But in any case, search engines will quickly find an Internet resource and include it in their search results.
There are a few easy ways to save your site's position when you decide to move to another domain:
- should register a domain name for the longest term;
- domain name is no less important than its age, so it should use words that are directly related to the theme of the site;
- you can purchase a previously purchased domain that has PR or TIC.
