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The Beginning of the journey...

What is a Web Hosting ?

Your first step in online world...

Once you register a Domain Name of your choice, the next step is to have some space on the web (i.e. internet) to place the contents (of your websites/web applications) so that your targetted and / or prospective audience can view it globally 24 X 7.

Here comes role of another service called Web Hosting or say Webspace Hosting or simply say Webspace or just Hosting only. Like harddisk on your personal computers, webspace is your space on the internet that you generally take as subscription service from (hosting) service provider of your choice.

Depending on the type of contents you are planning to put on the net or the type of online business you are planning, that is to say whether you are going to host a simple static website (i.e. just an informational one) or a full fledged database backed dynamic web application (i.e. an e-commerce or any other business application), these hostings are avaliable in a variety of options having various configuration apt for different type of usages/requirements.

Some of the most common types of web hosting are:

Also, there are various plans avaliable under many of these categories with minor tweakings in configurations / features to accomodate customers requirements in budgeted means.

Mavenheads provides all of these hostings to suit your requirements.

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The second part (technicalled called label) of the domain names, i.e, the one after the dot (first label from the right most), is technically called a TLD. Initially only a handful of TLDs existed. Best example of early TLDs are:

.com - originally meant for (US) commercial organisations.
.org - originally meant for Non-profit organizations.
.net - originally meant for Internet providers.
.info - Information services.

The restriction with these TLDs are no more in place and any person can register domain names with these TLDs. Not only this, over the period of time since usage of internet among general public, a lot more TLDs have come into existence. These TLDs can be classified as follows:

gTLD - called generic "Top-Level-Domains"

sTLD - Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD).
uTLD - Unsponsored Top Level Domains.

ccTLD - Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD).

gTLD - generic Top-Level-Domain: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .name, and .pro are gTLDs that are open to all. There are some gTLDs that have some restrictions and hence not open to all like - .gov., .int, .mil.

sTLD - A sponsored TLD is a specialized top-level domain that has a sponsor representing a specific community served by the domain. The communities are formed/based on ethnic, geographical, professional, technical or other theme concepts. Some of these so called sTLDs have restrictive use (like .edu, .gov, .mil) while most of them are open to all for registration. Examples are .legal, .hotel, .club, .travel etc...

uTLD - An unsponsored TLD operates under policies established by the global Internet community directly through the ICANN process. All the gTLDs that are not sponsored ones are uTLDs like .com, .net, .org etc...

ccTLD - TLDs with two letters (.xx) have been established for over 250 countries and external territories and are referred to as "country-code" TLDs or "ccTLDs". Examples are .in for India, .ca for Canada, .jp for Japan etc... Registrants of .ccTLDs domains must meet the Local Presence Requirements of specific country / territory.

IDNs - Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) permit the global community to use a domain name in their native language or script. This is enabled by allowing domain names to have characters from different scripts, beyond the letters (a to z), digits (0 to 9) and hyphen (-). Such domain names could contain letters or characters from non-Latin scripts (for example, Arabic or Chinese or Devanagri).

IDNs variant TLDs (both gTLD & ccTLD) have also started coming into existence.

Examples: IDN ccTLDs are: .भारत (Devanagri/India), .中國 (Traditional Chinese/China)

Examples: IDN gTLDs are: .संगठन (.org in Devanagri), .コム (.com in Japaneese)