Domains & Addresses articles

Domains & Addresses 1,100 Registering a .ao domain: at DNS.AO or through a provider? DNS.AO is the national registry for the .ao zone, under INFOSI. That is where the zone is managed - which is why...
Domains & Addresses 374 A .com or a country domain: which one should you register If your customers are mostly in your own country, the country extension is the natural pick. If you sell abroad or...
Domains & Addresses 273 HTTP or HTTPS: what changes for visitors, forms and the services that call your site Short answer: use HTTPS, always. Here every domain gets a free SSL certificate automatically, so the real question...
Domains & Addresses 247 www or no www: which address to choose for your site Short answer: either will do, and the choice is mostly a matter of taste. What is not a matter of taste is picking...
Domains & Addresses 276 Subdomain or folder: where to put a blog, a shop or a test site Short answer: what should strengthen the main site, such as a blog of articles, goes better in a folder...
Domains & Addresses 271 301 or 302: which redirect to use, and how to check what yours really is Short answer: a 301 says “moved for good”, a 302 says “it is elsewhere for now”. If the old address is not coming...
Domains & Addresses 251 A second domain for the same business: redirect, alias or separate site Short answer: if you hold two names for the same business (another extension, the old name, a typo you registered)...
Domains & Addresses 288 Transfer the domain or just change the nameservers: which one do you need Short answer: they are two different operations, and many people do the wrong one. Changing the nameservers decides...