Domain names to the internet are the as necessary as wheels on a car. All websites need a domain name; it is how your website is found on the internet by your potential customers. It is your unique identifier and two organizations can not have the same domain name. Your domain name is not really pur...

"What is in a name? A rose by any other word would smell as sweet." It is obvious that William Shakespeare knew nothing about the world of Web hosting, by those lines found in Romeo and Juliet. In the Web hosting world a domain name is very important to your company, image, or presence Online. Oft.....

I recently received an email from a concerned, fellow Internet business owner, asking for my opinion on an issue that could literally destroy his Internet business and the business of several other domains involved. He had received legal notice from a prominent company, stating that he needed to ...

Choosing the most appropriate domain is the first and one of the most important decisions you will make for your new business. Your business's name is the first impression visitors will have about your business. An easy to remember domain name that gives visitors an idea of what your business does ....

Registering a domain for your site is not a complicated process. However, selecting a domain name may seem on the surface to be just a matter of deciding which word or words to register. Choosing your domain name will play a key role in that other, less conspicuous form of advertising; word of mouth...

Let me tell you a true story. A friend of my who likes to collect domain names was describing a few that he had acquired. While he has a wide range of domains in various categories, these particular domains were all related to web hosting. Some of the domain names were similar to existing web hos...

The Widgets Corporation decides to start a Web site and naturally wants to name it Widgets.Com. But much to the consternation of its management, it discovers there already is a Widgets.com. Someone else has registered the “domain name” and Widgets is stuck. It happens every day as the battle for th...

Each day 20,000 plus domain names expire and become available for anyone to register. This is valuable if you are seeking a domain to help you boost your traffic, or are looking to resell the names for a profit. Expiring domain names have been owned by at least one person in the past. This owner ma...

SO YOU PONIED UP $70 TO LOCK DOWN TWO YEARS’ CONTROL OF THE WEB address www.[your name here].com, plus another $140 for the suffixes .net and .org. What about .cc, .nu, .md, or any of the almost 250 other country-code top-level domains that have hit the Internet? Country-code domains are two-letter...

In order to know exactly when an expiring domain name will become available for re-registration by a new owner, you must understand the ‘Status’ of a domain as listed in the ‘whois’ database. Here is the URL of the ‘whois’ lookup provided by Network Solutions: Networksolutions.com/en_US/whois. Whe...