A website requires multiple items to work together seamlessly and in conjunction in order to keep the site functioning as expected. It's not unlike buying a house. Part of the process is below:
* The Deed
* The Map
* The Address
* The Lock
* Curbside Appeal
The Deed
Registering a domain name is like purchasing the deed to a house. It declares to the world that this piece of property, this domain, belongs to you and that no one else in the world can own it for as long as you do.
Domains are renewable from 1 year to 10 years at a time. If your registration lapses, your website and all of its functions including email, shopping and visibility on the web will be unavailable until the registration is renewed. If the registration is allowed to lapse for more than sixty (60) days, your domain could be sold to another party, meaning you would lose ownership and all control of it.
The Map
Nameservers are, for the most part, the backbone of the Internet. They are the map, or GPS in current technology, that tells other machines and visitors how to find your site. The nameservers are set where you registered your domain name and are necessary to make the third segment of domain names work.
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