Domain registration is the process of getting a network domain name registered with a registrar authorized to bestow the registration. Domain name registration helps the owner of the site to have a single name regardless of the fact that the site is opened on ISP or ASP. ISP is the internet service provider and ASP is the application service provider. A domain registration makes you have a URL (uniform resource locator). It is always necessary to have your domain, so that users using your website have a clear idea of where your site belongs from. This helps them manage and remember the site names and so the usability of your site increases. This thereby increases the rate at which your site is browsed to bring revenue to you. To have your site accessible to the users, you need to have a network host. It is because you need to have some space on the internet for your site and for the viewers of your site.

You can have a web space, or web server of your own. But the convenience lies when you borrow the space from already existing hosting companies. When the server hosting the sites is run by a Linux operating system it becomes a linux hosting, whereas when it runs on the windows server, it is called a windows hosting. Linux based web server providing web space to the website owners is also called LAMP. LAMP is the abbreviation of Linux, Apache, Mysql, and PHP. As with the use of these words we can understand that a Linux based operating system uses Linux as the operating system. Apache is used for the management of HTTP related stuffs, MySql for the database management and PHP to make all the active and dynamic updates as per requirement. Windows being the most useable of all the operating systems was the first to act as a hosting server. Although it is far less good in comparison to Linux server, yet due to its popularity it kept its foot strong in the market for a long time.

Even the fact that Linux hosting is an open source and therefore is pretty much free in most cases could not beat the popularity of windows hosting. The reason for this could be the lucid GUI features, which made the common users find it akin to their understanding. Depending upon the kind of hosting services both windows and Linux hosting are classified into several sub groups such as business hosting services, entertainment hosting services or educational hosting services. All these hosting services are defined under their respective groups and are then registered under a domain. The registration is done by the organizations for the domain registration services. These services are made for the purpose of making web hosting easy and easily useable by all the users and the domain owners. All the domain registration is therefore carried out by the domain registration services. To make the website accessible to the common users and to keep all the data secured at a place a host server is needed as described above.

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