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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...
read moreLet 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...
read moreThe 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...
read moreEach 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...
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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...
read moreIn 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...
read moreOn the World Wide Web your domain name is your own unique identity. No two parties can ever hold the same domain name simultaneously; therefore your Internet identity is totally unique. If you have a business site on the Internet your domain name is your own online brand and in a sense you can use y...
read moreI don’t know about you, but sometimes it seems like all of the best domain names have already been taken. On more than one occasion, I’ve come up with a great domain name for a site, only to find that someone else had already purchased it. I can live with that, but sometimes I’ve found that it has b...
read moreHave you ever typed in a domain name and came to what looks like a default page of a domain name registrar that reads, “http://www.thedomainyoutyped.com is under construction”. Well it is time to stop advertising your domain name registrar’s site and start using that parked domain name for making mo...
read moreDomain names are becoming “hot” property - as in *theft* for resale. More and more companies are finding they cannot get their trademarked names as a domain name because so few good names are left. But sometimes it’s outright extortion as when a Fortune 500 company name is reserved by someone that h...
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