• Some search engines won't list you until you do
• Credibility - People are more likely to buy if you have your own domain name. For instance, http://www.geocities.com/renuplastics doesn't look as credible as http://www.renuplastics.in or http://www.renuplastics.com
• Portability - You can change your web hosting provider without messing up all your Search Engine listings you had generated until then.

Domain names are simply host names that provide easy-to-remember names for numerical IP address. They also pave way to move your services (websites, emails or any other online services) to move to a different Internet location. Your customers, partners and others will never need to worry about such hassles if you provide them with a standard domain name. All these transfers will happen in the backend if you register and promote your domain name rather than a raw numerical IP address. You can use our simple Control Panel to indicate where your domain name must point on the Web. We are happy to do the rest on your behalf.

It is important for you to know some of the fundamental rules and regulations when naming your domain name. Some of the important terminologies and rules governing domain names include: Labels: Each string of letters, digits or hyphens between the dots is called a label in the context of Domain Name System (DNS)
Every domain name ends in a generic top-level domain name (gTLD), which is usually a small list of generic names (two or more characters like .uk, .com, .net etc)
All country code top level domain names (ccTLD) will have additional representations such as ".co.in" where "co" is a representation of a commercial organization related to United Kingdom.
Each label in a domain name must be between 1 and 63 characters long (inclusive).
Labels usually start with a letter (A-Z and a-z) and end with a letter or a digit. The intervening characters may be letters, digits, or hyphens.
Domain Names are case-insensitive in nature. For instance, www.Sgs.in, www.SGS.in, www.sgs.in, www.sgs.IN and any such combination will all mean the same.
Please note that is NOT a comprehensive list of regulations governing domain names. The information about Rules and Registration and Use of Various Domain Names can be studied at the following websites.
gTLDs (.com, .net, .biz, .info, .name, .org, .pro) : http://www.icann.org/faq/#regrules India specific ccTLDs (.in, .co.in, .org.in, .gen.in, .ac.in)

The use of names (or domain names) for computers is for our benefit. This compels us to have a comprehensive name to number mapping for each computer (or handhelds or whatsoever which has an IP address) on the Internet. We have to avoid forcing each computer to have a database of the name to number mappings for all the machines in the world. A "name server" is simply a computer, such as ns1.netandhost.com, that stores the relevant information for its domain in a proper format. For instance, if you have hosted your website (or some other application) with Netandhost.com, your domain name would be pointing to one of our name servers. This name server provides the name to number mappings (amongst other things) to other computers upon request. This is also called Domain Name Service (DNS). Technically, there is no difference between a name server and DNS server.

You have access to edit all your DNS records (A, MX, MXE), real-time DNS updates, and incredible speed, performance, simplicity and reliability using our geographically dispersed name servers.

Don't have a website yet? Relax. With Netandhost.com, you can park your domain name at an "Under Construction" or "Alternate Contact" page until you build your website. But, in the meanwhile, buy your domain name before someone else does.

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