Very important aspects of organisational infrastructure management are domain name and hosting, i.e. on which server are the organisational websites hosted and which registrar they registered the domain name with.

There are numerous choices when registering a domain name (e.g. organisation.org) and it can be done relatively cheaply and easily online, depending on the needs of the organisation. Domain names are usually registered on a yearly basis and registration must be regularly renewed.

Organisations can opt for different types of top level domains, i.e. the ending part of the URL, and most common are:

• Country code (ccTLD), which are associated with a specific country, region or territory: .de, .br, .ca;
• Generic (gTLD), related to general notions: .com, .net, .org;
• Sponsored (sTLD), reserved for specific types of registrants, such as government bodies or international organisations: .gov, .int, .aero.

When registering a domain, there is also the option of Whois domain protection, so that the registrant’s information (name, address, contacts...) wouldn’t be visible in Whois lookup searches. However, for organisations such as media, domain transparency is recommended.