Domains

A domain is the physical location on a web server at which a website is located. A domain name is the address of that physical location. If you think of a website as a physical store, the website is the building, the domain is the land on which the store is built, and the domain name is the officially registered street address. Without a domain and a domain name, a website is like a building plan in an architect’s office — the owners know what the building will look like but it doesn’t physically exist and customers cannot visit it.

To make your website available to customers:

• Purchase a domain name from a domain name provider

• Create a domain on a NetSuite server

• Link the domain and the domain name together

You can also use domains in NetSuite to:

• Send bulk email through campaigns or email merge operations

• Point to a web page hosted in your NetSuite File Cabinet

• Redirect to the URL of your choice

• Redirect to a promotional domain

See the following topics for more information about domains:

• Introduction to Domains – provides an introduction to the concept of domains and how they work in NetSuite. It also provides an overview of secure domains and the ways in which you can secure a domain in NetSuite. The Domain Setup Checklist contains step-by-step instructions on setting up a domain in NetSuite.

• Set Up Domains for Web Stores – describes how to set up and automatically secure different types of domains, including typical web stores, shopping domains, custom checkout domains, hosted domains, etc. This section also describes common domain setup errors and how to resolve them.

• Advanced Domain Setup - covers advanced topics such as:

  • how to obtain and secure domains manually using SSL certificates from your preferred certificate authorities (CAs).

  • how web stores transfer shopping session data from the shopping domain to the checkout domain, when these domains are separate.

  • how to set up email domains to handle large-scale email campaigns.

  • how to design and upload a custom maintenance page that is displayed while you complete routine updates and during NetSuite scheduled maintenance periods.

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