Domain Names and Certificates

So far, we only addressed the virtual servers with IP addresses. While they work perfectly well, it's a bit hard to advertise our brand new application on 165.227.139.24. Instead, we should buy a domain name from a domain registrar and serve the application from an address that people can remember. By using DNS records, we can instruct the DNS servers to send the visitors of our new domain name to the correct IP address. Connecting the IP address with our new domain name is just part of the story, though. If we want to serve web content securely over HTTPS, we'll have to provide a TLS certificate that validates the domain name and the virtual server's ownership.