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Domain Name Life Cycle

Domain Name Life Cycle :

Let’s be familiar with Domain Name Life Cycle. This is the cycle from the time it is first registered till it is deleted

Although the typical domain name life cycle is difficult to follow, however we’ve tried to simplify it for your reference

Below is an outlined phases of domain life cycle.

Active (1-10 Years): After the domain purchasing the domain is active for 10 years, depending upon length of subscription. The renewal is not more than 10 years.

On Hold (1-45 Days): If the registrar receives no response from the owner of the domain till 45 days it sends the delete command to the registry. The domain could continue to operate till 45 days depending upon registry and other factors.

Redemption Period (30 Days): After the period in hold status the domain name is kept in grace period in the registry. During this time the website is not working nor do the domain name is available to people to buy. It means the owner of the website gets the extra grace period to renew

Deletion(5 days): After the Final Delete command is sent the domain name is still is Shared Registry System and cannot be purchased by others. The original owner can still renew this domain

Available: Once the deletion completes, the name is released for purchase by the other public.

DNS
Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.

The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn’t know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.

Nameservers

Domain name servers translate domain names to IP addresses.
Human-readable names like “howstuffworks.com” are easy for people to remember, but they don’t do machines any good. All of the machines use names called IP addresses to refer to one another. For example, the machine that humans refer to as “www.howstuffworks.com” has the IP address 70.42.251.42. Every time you use a domain name, you use the Internet’s domain name servers (DNS) to translate the human-readable domain name into the machine-readable IP address.

Primary Nameserver

The primary nameserver is the machine where the records are edited and maintained through, and is held to be the final authority on the domain name. If there is an error here, it will propagate throughout the internet, so it is vitally important that the records on the primary nameserver be set up correctly.
These records are stored in something called a “zone file.” The zone file is a text file, stored on the nameservers, which contains all the technical information regarding the servers for the domain. All the authoritative nameservers need to have a matching copy of the zone file, since they are equally likely to be asked about the domain whether secondary or primary, though the file is only edited and maintained through the primary nameserver.

Secondary nameservers

The remaining nameserver or nameservers listed on the whois record transfer, or copy, the zone file from the primary nameserver. These nameservers are referred to as secondary, and ensure that the domain does not go off-line if there should happen to be a problem with the primary, and also makes resolution faster by allowing more than one option for finding authoritative information for the domain.

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Unlimited domains and Types of domains

Unlimited Domains:

Once you grow with your business you need to add more domains to your account. Why not make sure about the domains you will be allowed to host under a single website. Many of the hosting companies provides unlimited domains and sub domains.

Let’s have a look at benefits of Unlimited Domain hosting:

• You can host unlimited no of Domains and Sub domains within a single website.
• Unlimited domains in fact have there own FTP, email, database etc.
• This facility provides you an option to grow online.
• You can add as many domains as you can without additional cost, the only thing is keeping traffick, Disk space and other resources which would be shared in mind.

What is Domain parking?

Domain Parking is pointing a domain to another domain existing on the server. Consider you have a domain abc.com and another domain xyz.com. suppose you have parked xyz.com on abc.com  and u access xyz.com you will see the same page as abc.com. The name servers of parked and the main domain point to same name servers.

What is Add on Domain?

Addon domain is as good as a new Website. The add on domain will be hosted or pointed to a folder in public_html folder of your main domain. This is feature provided by the hosting provider, which allows to host multiple domains on single hosting account. This feature allows you to reach a sub domain directly by entering the name of add on domain. You can add multiple domains and remove them from the  addon domain maintenance menu. The addon domain are listed under current addon domains.

Please remember that the add on domains should be already registered and name servers for the addon domain pointing to same name servers as of your main domain.

Consider the following example :

You have addon domain named add.com and your main domain is main.com. you can access in three ways.

1 add.com
2. main.com/add
3. add.main.com

What is Sub Domain?

Sub domain utilizes the existence main domain name. It does not have its own domain name. A sub domain points to a folder in Public_html directort of your main domain.

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