What can a web site do and how can it help my business?

You can use your web site to whatever means you can think of. You can sell product worldwide, as an informational site for your company and the services it offers, as an online shop front to your company. In short, you can do whatever you feel will benefit the growth of your business. But if you are unsure how a web site will help you, get in touch with us and we can talk it through with you.

What is a Domain Name?

A Domain name is the name you choose and register for your web site. The domain name for this web site is bredonweb.com

Domain Names

Registering a domain name is very inexpensive and easy. The minimum domain name registration period is one year. We charge £10 for a one year (£15 two years) registration of standard domain types, such as .com, .net and .org. A domain name does not need to be registered at the same company where you purchase web server space (Web Hosting). This is sometimes convenient, but the domain is controlled by the Registrant, not the web hosting company where your web site is hosted.

We can register domains on your behalf, but we currently do not register .co.uk domains. If you specifically want a .co.uk domain, we can advise you on a suitable Registrar.

Domain Control Panel and Domain Nameservers (DNS)

Your domain Registrar will provide you with a domain control panel so that you may set your domain nameservers (DNS) setting. When you sign up for web hosting, the web host will provide you with their DNS information. It usually looks something like ns1.gem3.com and ns2.gem3.com. This is the connection that points your domain to your web hosting company. If you ever change hosting providers, you will change this to point to the new provider.

DNS changes don't work instantly. Each Internet Service Provider (ISP) on the planet must make a copy of the master database before each of that ISP's users can use the domain name to visit the site. Most major ISPs update their database daily, but a few only update every few days. The DNS change will work for most internet users the next day.