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| How to register a domain name. The 1st step of creating a website is register a domain name. There are two basic steps to getting your site online and registering/reserving a domain name is the first. A domain name makes up the address of your site and can end in .com, .net, .org, .info, .us, .biz, .tv and more. Throughout this site you will also see the domain name referred to as the "dot com name". Once you have registered your name, you will select a web host. The web host is the guts of any website because this is where you create and publish your pages, build order forms, add functionality and maintain your site. | ||||
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How to Select the Best Domain Name If being found in the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.) is extremely important to you, I highly recommend you register a name that contains your major keywords instead of your company name. Think about it. The average surfer searches by subject, not by proper name. So why it may seem cool to have a name like TimothysToolTyme.com, you'll want to choose a name that includes keywords that your target audience would likely use when they search. So with that in mind, a name like Tool-Tips-for-Beginners.com would be much better than TimothysToolTyme.com. Sure, you can still list your company name on your web pages, but I believe it's more important to make sure the domain name includes your important "search friendly" keywords if you want to receive traffic from all over. Of course, you can still list your company name on the web site some place, but your domain name will include all the important keywords you'll want to be found with. Now, as always, there are exceptions... If you are just creating a website for a local business, getting traffic from all over the web may not be as important to you. This is because your customers will be local and you may want to grow your brand name in a specific area. If this is the case, it may make more sense to register your company name and create brand awareness locally instead of trying to capitalize on search engine presence. For example, let's say you have a company called Smithson & Co and you help people get rid of debt, but you're based in Kansas and can only cater to residents in this area. Since you are only servicing local clients, you may not care if someone in California can find your site in Google since they are not likely to become one of your customers. In this case, it's not as important to register a name filled with "search optimized" keywords. You may decide to just reserve the company name, SmithsonAndCo.com. NOTE: Keep in mind that the domain name is not the only factor weighed by search engines when deciding your rank. |
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The content on your web pages and your site's popularity (inbound links from other sites) is very important too. However, it certainly doesn't hurt to make sure your name is optimized for maximum results. Here are some more tips on choosing the best domain name: 1) Don't register domain names that are too long and have too many syllables if you can help it. Yes, you can register names up to 63 characters long, but that doesn't mean you have to use all 63 characters. You want your name to be easy to remember. Not everyone will bookmark your page initially so try to think of something that can be easily remembered -- although I realize this may be tricky since a lot of names are taken these days. 2) Use hyphens if your name is more than 3 words long (unless your name includes 3 short words). A name like carbuying.com doesn't really need a hyphen because it's readable the way it is. However a name like used-car-buying-scams.com looks better than usedcarbuyingscams.com since there are so many words in the name. 3) Protect your name by registering multiple extensions (.net, .org, etc.) This deters people from copying your name. For example, if you own garden-tips-for-us.com you can also register garden-tips-for-us.net and any other extension that's available. You don't have to build a site on all the domains, but you can reserve the others to keep people (copycats) from registering them. How to Register a Domain Name It doesn't matter where you register your domain. Every registrar provides the same services. You Should Protect Your Privacy A private domain registration will keep your information (name, email address, etc.) out of the global Internet database, and will prevent a lot of spam from reaching your email box. Even though registering a "private" domain is not mandatory and will not block all spam, I highly recommend you select this option. I certainly wish this had been available when I created my first site. Free web hosting service: is free,
(sometimes) advertisement-supported web hosting, and is sometimes limited
when compared to paid hosting. The term domain name has multiple related meanings: A name that is entered into a computer
(e.g. as part of a Web site or other URL, or an e-mail address). These
names are technically hostnames. This article will primarily discuss registered domain names. See the Domain Name System article for technical discussions about general domain names and the hostname article for further information about the most common type of domain name. The most common type of domain names are hostnames that provide more memorable names to stand in for numeric IP addresses. They allow for any service to move to a different location in the topology of the Internet (or an intranet), which would then have a different IP address. By making possible the use of unique alphabetical addresses instead of numeric ones, domain names allow Internet users to easily find and communicate with web sites and other server-based services. The flexibility of the domain name system allows multiple IP addresses to be assigned to a single domain name, or multiple domain names to be assigned to a single IP address. This means that one server may have multiple roles (such as hosting multiple independent Web sites), or one role can be spread among many servers. One IP address can even be assigned to several servers, such as with anycast and hijacked IP space. Hostnames are restricted to using only the ASCII letters "a" through "z' (case-insenstive), the digits "0" through "9" and the hyphen, along with a few other restrictions. Registrars restrict the domains that they will allow to be registered to valid hostnames since, otherwise, they would be useless. The Internationalized domain name (IDN) system has been developed to bypass these restrictions on what characters can be used in hostnames, making it easier for non-english speakers to use the Internet. The underscore character is frequently used to ensure that a domain name is not recognized as a hostname, for example with the use of SRV records, although some older systems, such as Netbios allowed it. Due to confusion and other reasons, domain names with underscores in them are sometimes used where hostnames are required. The following example illustrates the difference
between a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and a domain name: For example, as referenced in RFC 2606 (Reserved
Top Level DNS Names), the server at IP address 192.0.34.166 handles all of the
following sites: example.com, www.example.com,
example.net,
www.example.net, example.org,
www.example.org However, once the World Wide Web became popular, site operators frequently wished to have memorable addresses, regardless of whether they fit properly in the structure; thus, since the .com domain was the most popular and memorable, even noncommercial sites would often get addresses under it, and sites of all sorts wished to have second-level domain registrations even if they were parts of a larger entity where a logical subdomain would have made sense (e.g., abcnews.com instead of news.abc.com). A Web site found at http://www.example.org will often be advertised without the "http://", and in most cases can be reached by just entering "example.org" into a Web browser. In the case of a .com, the Web site can sometimes be reached by just entering "example" (depending on browser versions and configuration settings, which vary in how they interpret incomplete addresses). The popularity of domain names also led to uses which were regarded as abusive by established companies with trademark rights; this was known as cybersquatting, in which somebody took a name that resembled a trademark in order to profit from traffic to that address. To combat this, various laws and policies were enacted to allow abusive registrations to be forcibly transferred, but these were sometimes themselves abused by overzealous companies committing reverse domain hijacking against domain users who had legitimate grounds to hold their names, such as their being generic words as well as trademarks in a particular context, or their use in the context of fan or protest sites with free speech rights of their own. Laws that specifically address domain name conflicts include the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in the United States and the Trademarks Act, 1999, in India. Alternatively, domain registrants are bound by contract under the UDRP to comply with mandatory arbitration proceedings should someone challenge their ownership of the domain name. An economic effect of the widespread usage of domain names has been the resale market for generic domain names that has sprung up in the last decade. Certain domains, especially those related to business, gambling, pornography, and other commercially lucrative fields of digital world trade have become very much in demand to corporations and entrepreneurs due to their intrinsic value in attracting clients. The most expensive Internet domain name to date, according to Guinness World Records, is business.com which was resold in 1999 for $7.5 million, but this was $7.5 million in stock options, not in cash. Later the stock was valued at, not sold, for $2 million and may even be worth less today Newsweek [1]. There are disputes about the high values of domain names claimed and the actual prices of many sales. Another high value domain name, sex.com, was stolen from its rightful owner by means of a forged transfer instruction via fax. During the height of the dot-com era, the domain was earning millions of dollars per month in advertising revenue from the large influx of visitors that arrived daily. Two long-running U.S. lawsuits resulted, one against the thief and one against the domain registrar VeriSign[2]. In one of the cases, Kremen v. Network Solutions, the court found in favor of the plaintiff, leading to an unprecedented ruling that classified domain names as property, granting them the same legal protections. In 1999, Microsoft traded the valuable name Bob.com with internet entrepreneur Bob Kerstein for the name Windows2000.com which was the name of their new operating system.[3] One of the reasons for the value of domain names is that even without advertising or marketing, they attract clients seeking services and products who simply type in the generic name. Furthermore, generic domain names such as movies.com or Books.com are extremely easy for potential customers to remember, increasing the probability that they become repeat customers or regular clients. Although the current domain market is nowhere as strong as it was during the dot-com heyday, it remains strong and is currently experiencing solid growth again. Annually tens of millions of dollars change hands due to the resale of domains. Large numbers of registered domain names lapse and are deleted each year. On average 25,000 domain names drop (are deleted) every day. People who buy and sell domain names are known as domainers. Many people ask if this domain is for sale. Are
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