Domains

A domain is the physical location on a web server where your website lives. A domain name is the address of that physical location. If you think of a website as a store, the website is the building, the domain is the land it's built on, and the domain name is the official 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 it'll look like, but it doesn’t physically exist and customers can't visit it.

To make your website available to customers, do the following:

• Buy a domain name from a provider

• Set up a domain on a NetSuite server

• Link the domain and domain name together

You can also use domains in NetSuite to:

• Send bulk email through campaigns or email merges

• Point to a web page in your NetSuite File Cabinet

• Redirect to any URL you choose

• Redirect to a promotional domain

See the following topics for more information about domains:

• Introduction to Domains – provides an introduction to domains and how they work in NetSuite. It also covers secure domains and how you can secure a domain in NetSuite. The Domain Setup Checklist has step-by-step instructions for setting up a domain in NetSuite.

• Set Up Domains for Web Stores – explains how to set up and automatically secure different types of domains, like web stores, shopping domains, custom checkout domains, and hosted domains. It also covers common setup errors and how to fix them.

• Advanced Domain Setup – covers advanced topics like:

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

  • how web stores transfer shopping session data between shopping and checkout domains, when these domains are separate.

  • how to set up email domains for large email campaigns.

  • how to upload a custom maintenance page to display during routine updates or scheduled NetSuite maintenance.

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