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In South Africa, registering a domain name has never been simpler. It’s time to purchase your own domain name and make the online address of your website official. Visitors can tell you mean business if you have a brand related web address. You can complete your new registration or transfer an existing one.
Choosing A Good Domain Name
Brand Name
Your domain name should reflect your brand and vice versa. Developing branding can take time. Adding your own brand name to your domain helps differentiate, increase awareness, and increase traffic to your website. When creating brand names and domain names, be careful not to use existing brand names or trademarks.
Keywords
Related words help users find you in searches and see what you’re doing at a glance. Keywords can include what you do or offer (such as ‘coffee’ or ‘cleaning’) or your location. Including your location (such as ‘Cape Town’) also allows you to target local customers and users.
Good, no need for perfect
Many people spend lots of time trying to find the perfect name, but that time can be spent building a great brand around a perfectly good one. Choosing the Perfect Domain must not get in the way of starting your business or project.
Length
Less is more, easier to remember and type, so users are more likely to find you. Also, the less you read, the more likely you are to get noticed. We recommend no more than 2 words.
Simplicity
You want people to remember your domain’s name and type it in correctly. Complex and unusual words and names can be difficult to remember and spell correctly.
Website Name
It may seem obvious, but your domain name should be the same as your brand name, or as similar as possible. I don’t want to confuse people who enter my domain name to visit her website under a different name.
Find it, register and buy yours now!
Finding your calling could take your entire life. Finding the ideal name, fortunately, is a considerably less difficult task. Selecting and registering your domain name can be completed in a matter of minutes and a few simple procedures.
Create a domain name for your brand’s identity first, and then use our WHOIS Lookup tool to see if it is available. Simply click “Get It” to finish the registration procedure and make the purchase, if one is available. Your email of confirmation will then arrive and global propagation will start.
Why Astrihost
Domain Privacy
We offer free domain privacy protection with all our domains.
Manage Your Nameserver
Point your domain to a host of your choice or use custom nameservers.
Renewals Automated
Enable auto-renew in the client area so that you don’t lose your domain name.
Parked Domains
Secure your domain name before someone takes in and park it till you ready to use it.
DNS Hosting
You are able to manage your DNS from the client area even if you don’t have a hosting package.
Check Out Our Hosting Packages
Now that you have your name registered and sorted, it’s time to match it up with a great Web or WordPress hosting Package. It is important to remember that a web address without a hosting package is not worth much. What are you waiting for? Choose one of our hosting packages to pair up with your domain name.
Compare Our Web Hosting Packages
NVMe SSD Drives, cPanel, Litespeed and Premium bandwidth on top of a 10Gbit/s port
Starter
R75/mo
Basic
R105/mo
Business
R205/mo
Business Ultra
R315/mo
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Starter WordPress
R95/mo
Basic WordPress
R175/mo
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R310/mo
E-Commerce
R495/mo
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Our servers seldom take a break
EVERYTHING YOU NEED
Online presence from start to finish
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Filtering for all incoming and outgoing email
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Our WordPress Toolkit is a simple interface that allows you to manage every aspect of your WordPress website with just a few clicks.
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A staging area where you can make changes without affecting your live website. Then you can put it back in live mode.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We are always happy to help, if you can’t find the information you are looking for please don’t hesitate to reach out to us!
Hi there! A domain name is like a street address for a website. Just like your house has an address that helps people find where you live, a website has a domain name that helps people find it on the internet.
A domain name is made up of two parts: the name of the website (like Google, Facebook, or YouTube) and the ending (like .com, .org, or .net). When you type a domain name into a web browser, it takes you to that website’s page on the internet.
So, just like your home has an address, websites have domain names that make it easy for people to find and visit them on the internet.
An example of a domain name for a business in South Africa could be www.example.co.za, where “example” is the name of the business and “.co.za” is the top-level domain (TLD) for South African websites.
In South Africa, there are several TLDs that businesses can choose from, including .co.za, .org.za, .net.za, .web.za, and more. The .co.za TLD is the most commonly used and is recommended for South African businesses.
When choosing a domain name for a business, it’s important to choose a name that is easy to remember, relevant to your business, and not too long or complicated. This can help customers find your website more easily and remember it for future visits.
NAT is used to conserve IP address space by allowing multiple devices on a private network to share a single public IP address. It works by translating private IP addresses to a public IP address when communicating over the internet, and vice versa. NAT helps mitigate the depletion of IPv4 addresses and enables organizations to use private IP addresses internally while still accessing the internet.
The three types of security domains are physical security, network security, and information security. Physical security focuses on protecting physical assets and premises, such as buildings and equipment, from unauthorized access or damage.
Network security involves securing computer networks and systems to prevent unauthorized access, data breaches, and other network-related threats. Information security is concerned with safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) enhances the security of the DNS infrastructure by providing data integrity and authenticity. It achieves this by digitally signing DNS data using cryptographic signatures. When a DNS resolver receives a DNS response, it can verify the digital signatures using DNSSEC keys obtained from DNS records.
This validation process ensures that the received DNS data is trustworthy and hasn’t been tampered with, protecting against DNS-based attacks such as DNS spoofing and cache poisoning. DNSSEC helps establish a chain of trust, starting from the top-level DNSSEC key, down to individual domain keys, providing a more secure DNS environment.
