ProsperO clients will receive a full package of services when signing a business contract, be it for a new website, re-skin of existing website, marketing campaigns, specialised designing, you name it, ProsperO’s technical team of experts will deliver. Another point of expertise is the setting up of new domains for the websites we develop.
ProsperO will assist you to create and register a domain name for your company, maintain the domain name for you, and create email accounts as well as a website for you. We will register any domain from .co.za right through to .net, .org, .com etc.
What domain registration entails and how your business wil benefit from it.
Firstly, a domain name locates an organization or other entity on the internet. For example, the domain name www.name-of-site.com locates an internet address for "name-of-site.com" at internet point 199.0.0.2 and a particular host server named "www." The "com" part of the domain name reflects the purpose of the organization or entity. In this example "commercial", and is called the top-level domain name. The "name-of-site" part of the domain name defines the organization or entity, and together with the top-level is called the second-level domain name. The second-level domain name maps to and can be thought of as the "readable" version of the internet address.
Why do you need a domain name?
- Increases your name recognition
- Making it easy for your customers to remember your address
- Indicating that you are a serious internet player
- Helps to brand your image
- Adds a level of trust and integrity to your site
- Many search engines refuse to list pages from free sites
- Some search engines will only index the first page of a domain site
- Domain names containing 'keywords' aid in higher search engine ranking
- Allows you to use your domain address (www.yourname.com) and virtual email addresses (yourname@yourname.com) on your business cards and letterhead
- Once a domain name has been registered, it is no longer available. The most popular and easily-remembered domain names are being reserved daily, at the rate of one domain name every 5 seconds! At that rate, in the near future, only obscure domain names will be available to the general public.
- Avoids somebody else from registering the name you want.
- Lets you change your current email provider and still keep the same email address
- Protects your internet advertising investment from failure of your internet service provider
What is a DNS Server?
A DNS server is any computer registered to join the domain name system. A DNS server runs a special-purpose networking software, features a public IP address, and contains a database of network names and addresses for other internet hosts.
ProsperO also looks into managing the DNS records for a domain name which is one of the basic options that a contemporary hosting service must provide to domain owners. The possibility to edit the domains' A and MX records, in particular, is the most crucial part of the DNS management functionality offered by the hosts.
Custom A Record
With the progress of the web hosting services, now the webmasters need advanced control over the custom DNS record settings. By changing the DNS host record - the A record, they are empowered to point their domain or host name to a static IP address of their choice. This way they can direct the web traffic of a website to another location, usually a remote server, by simply specifying its corresponding IP address in the DNS management panel provided by their particular host.
Custom MX Record
The custom MX record control option is useful in cases when domain owners want all incoming emails to be processed by an external mail server instead of the built-in mail system of their hosted email provider. This is possible due to the MX records' capability of instructing the mail servers how email should be routed and to which destination. By pointing the MX records to an external mailing system, the webmaster can utilize his own custom setup SMTP server. This can be done for various reasons and will allow sending of a great number of e-mails to large community mailing lists.
