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Properly Registering Your Domain Name
If you plan to go online with your business or you have some online establishments then you should by domain name and set up a website. The first thing that you should do it’s to buy good domain name and then set up your site. Domain names are very valuable investments and you must try to protect them, so be very careful when you purchase the domain.
The first step to protecting your domain name is properly registering the domain. Registering the domain name it’s very easy and can be done in 5 minutes. Search google for “domain name” and you will find a lot of site that are selling domain names. There are many registrants but try to find the cheapest. For example Godaddy is one of the best registrants. Currently Godaddy has more then 45 million sites under management and they are the biggest ICAAN – accredited registrar in the world.
The domain can be registered by you or you can ask your web designer to register the domain for you, but it’s better if you register it by yourself. Be very careful when registering – domain name is an intellectual property. If you register the domain by yourself then nobody can gain access the the domain except you. Maybe the website is configured to last long but the contact with the developer is not, and later you will have troubles renewing the domain. The best practice is to register it for as long as possible, for example you can register it for 4-5 years or more if you have the financial capability .
Another good practice is to find aged domain name that have been around for couple of years. There are some people that wont to know “How long have you been in the business?”. Maybe they will not ask you directly by they will check your record in the whois database. This way when you purchase aged domain they will not see a domain that have been online for just of couple of month. There are many domain traders on the internet where you can by aged domain. Search google for domain trader and you will find a ton of sites offering this service, or you can go to “Web Hosting Talk” and ask if anybody has a domain name for sale.
If you don’t want to buy preregistered site then you can purchase new domain name for 7$ or even cheaper if you use some coupon. The price of the domain depends on the extension. For example .com, .net, .org are the most common domains. There are some others line .info that can be bought for $1.55. There are others that are very expensive and you will have to pay $50 for one year purchase. When buying domain try to buy .com .net .org and .info for the same domain. Then set up a redirection from the other to yoursite.com. When any visitor visits any of these extensions he will be redirected to yoursite.com.
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Domain names and the power of .com
Domain names are strange things, because they’re simply a way for other people to remember your site. All domain names point to an IP address, such as 14.25.243.22. But what’s easier to remember, cnn.com or 64.236.16.84? You can verify that this number takes you to the CNN site by typing http://64.236.16.84 into your Web browser and seeing what pops up.
Accessing a page by typing in its IP address usually works, but not always. Some Web hosting companies block attempts to use IP addresses to access a page. So what’s the point of a domain name? It’s just easier to remember than an IP number. I’m sure by now you want to get your own domain name. How do you go about doing that?