Many people seeking web hosting Dubai services often tend to have many doubts on registering domains and whether it’s related to hosting the website. Though both are two different things, there is a connection between registering domains and hosting the website. 

The domain name is unique to a website, and another website would never have the same domain name with the same TLD (Top-level domain) extension - .com, .org etc. 

Many web hosting service providers in Dubai offer free domain registration as part of their hosting package, or as a paid add-on. Some companies even provide email hosting UAE services in addition to domain registration. 

Here are some pointers to choose the right kind of domain for your website.

• Always go for easy-to-recall, simple-to-type domain names.
  
• Check for domain availability across multiple domain registrars.
  
• Make sure a keyword relevant to your website is present in the domain.
  

Registration

For registration, people can visit websites of ICANN-accredited domain registrars – a popular example for one being GoDaddy.com. They can also have the hosting service provider register a domain for them to avoid the hassle, provided such a service is offered. The ‘.com’ extension should be the priority, as a thumb rule. If it is not available, any other available TLD can be chosen.

Once a domain is registered, the registration is recorded in a big database maintained by ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The name and IP address of the domain are fed to a DNS (Domain Name System) server which would relay the info to the computers connected to the internet.

Subdomains

Subdomains are something that many people aren’t aware of although they use them pretty much all the time. Subdomains are created on the DNS server that a website is running on, and they don’t have to be registered with a registrar like a domain. It’s possible to create many subdomains for a single domain at no additional cost.

Domain renewal

Domain owners may lose ownership of the domain they purchased if they don’t renew it at least a day before the domain’s expiry date. Expired domains go into a pool, where they will be put for auctions or back-orders. If the expired domains are still not sold, they will be made available on the common pool for registration.

While the domain is in the ‘expired’ pool, registrars often tend to charge domain owners more for buying back the domain they used to own. 

Copyright infringement

Copyright infringements are reported often in the domain registration UAE industry. It’s illegal to use copyrighted brand names on domains or even blogs of people who don’t own the original brand. A Phoenix-based cloud services company called ‘iCloud’ sued Apple recently for using their brand name. Special caution should be taken to make sure that the domain name you selected does not infringe another brand’s copyrights.

A good web hosting provider offering domain registration services would also consider themselves responsible to get you a short, memorable and keyword-relevant domain that does not infringe copyrights.