How To Buy Domain Names by Andrew Summits

How To Buy Domain Names by Andrew Summits

You have to register a domain name through a domain registrar. These registrars have to become accredited (a very tough and pricey process) through an non-profit corporation called ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers). The cheapest you can find a domain for is about $9, because domain registrars have to pay a fee of around $6 for every domain that they register. Some registrars are better than others, and I will tell which ones you generally want to avoid. The registrars that I use to register:
Yahoo Domains: I probably use Yahoo more than any other registrar, and I do recommend them to anybody, especially somebody just starting out with domains. The price is very affordable at $9.99 a year, no hidden fees like GoDaddy, and they have a very easy-to-use interface. If you have more than one domain, this is particularly the case. I do find their support very effective, in case you need to ask them any questions. They also offer some web hosting packages, and although more expensive than GoDaddy, I do find them to be much more reliable, and they have some great tools for people who have never designed a site before. UPDATE: If you go to smallbusiness.yahoo.com right now, you'll see that it costs $9.99 for a domain. I found a coupon to get the first year for just $1.99, just click the Yahoo Domains link at the top of this paragraph, or right here. I would definitely recommend trying out Yahoo Domains now and maybe even their web hosting, because that is just a great price.
GoDaddy.com: Probably the most well known registrar, and the cheapest. You may remember some of their Super Bowl ads from the past 2 years. They charge $8.95 for .com domains, but they also tack a .25 cent ICANN fee on, so its really $9.20. They have a promotion going on, where you get domains for only $1.99 when you purchase another non-domain product from them. If you buy a domain, you are going to need hosting, and they definitely one of the cheapest web hosts, so you may want to get those together and save. My only beef with them is that when you are registering, they bombard you with tons of ads promoting all of their other products.
Dotster.com: This is a good registrar, but they are slightly more expensive than the others at $14.95, but they do include some great features, such as free URL forwarding, free domain parking, free SpamShield, free TransferLock, and free ownership transfers. If you don't know what most of those things do, then you probably don't need them, but they can be helpful for domain power users.
Those are 3 domain registrars that I have personal experience with, and I can recommend each one. Personally, I give the edge to Yahoo, but you may find that you like GoDaddy or Dotster more.
Now, there are two registrars that I have heard plenty bad about, and would recommend that you avoid. Those would be RegisterFly and 1&1 Internet. RegisterFly pretty much just won't help you at all, and if you ever want to transfer your domain or need any help, I don't think you're going to get very far with them. The problem with 1&1 is that they sell domain names solely to promote their web hosting, and so they can be very uncooperative if you do not use their web hosting, and from what I have heard from quite a few people that have tried their hosting, you do not want to use it. That's my advice, you can take it or leave it, but I have quite a bit of experience in the area of domain names, and I am confident in what I say.
I hope this article helps you get started in the world of the world wide web, and you can get a domain registered, and get some hosting to get your domain rolling. If you have any questions about any of this, or anything about domains or hosting, just send me an email at asummits@gmail.com, and I will get right back to you. That's what I am here for - helping you.

Professional Web Site Hosting by Eric Morris

Professional Web Site Hosting by Eric Morris

Professional Web Site Hosting by Eric Morris
Professional website hosting provides you with not just a storage space for your content, but a comprehensive tool kit to get you started on a website and help you maintain a professional website. Professional web hosts give you easy-to-use website builders and user-friendly online control panels. This kind of web hosting is specially targeted at business men for whom a high standard website is an asset. Since you pay your host for their services, it saves you workforce for website maintenance and upkeep. You need not worry about server crashes and technical hitches. You can be rest assured that your clientele has easy access to your business services.
A few tips will help you choose the right website host for your business and guarantee efficient services. The main thing of course, will be to approach a reliable web hosting service that provides you with decent amount of server space to host your site. Technical support and user friendly website builders are characteristic to most professional website hosts. You should be looking at what kind of special features you need in your website and how much you can afford to spend on it. Your website host should also give you some flexibility to move around and grow with your business and the hits on your site.
Future Quest Inc is a good web host with a variety of offers to suit different business concerns. Their services include PHP secure mode, extractions of virus infected emails, C, C++ , 100 GB bandwidth and 2,500 MB disk space. They also have add-on features like extra domains and sub domains. Their hosting fee per month ranges from approximately $10 dollars a month to $100 dollars a month.
Small business at yahoo.com is a very popular web host and attracts a large number of clients owing to their reliability and efficient support. Their professional web hosting package costing

How to Grab a Good Top Level Domain by ian Williamson

How to Grab a Good Top Level Domain by ian Williamson

With the recent explosion in the availability of website domain name suffixes (such as .eu, .ws, .cc and so on) it's never been easier to grab a domain name that is directly related to the subject matter of your site.
For example, if your site were to be about Persian Cats, you would probably want to use a domain name including the phrase "persiancat". Unfortunately, however, persiancat.com is no longer available. Nor is persiancat.net, .org, .biz or any of the other top level domain name suffixes.
As I write, persiancat.ws IS still available, so you could buy that name if you wanted to.
However, the truth of the matter is that most people who are searching on the net are going to give first priority to sites with top level domain names, such as a .com or a .net.
At least partially, this is simply a function of these being the original suffixes, and therefore the average surfer believes that they have more credibility and authority.
This is especially critical if your website is selling or promoting your business or products, as these factors translate into "trustworthy" in this situation. Simply put, a top level domain name is one of your strongest sales tools.
Search engines will also consider your domain name when considering your site for that all important search engine ranking Therefore, there needs to be some clear relationship between your domain name and site subject, to give you any chance of featuring when people search using Google or Yahoo.
So, what can you do? Well, here's a couple of very simple tips that I have used to bag top level names for some of my own sites.
First, try a plural version of your key phrase, rather than the singular version. So, in the example above, we could check on the availability of top level names using persiancats, rather than persiancat. However, used on its own, this tactic is a bit too obvious, and in my experience, when the singular version of a phrase has been take, more often than not, so has the plural.
The second little trick is, however, far more effective and well worth trying if you are looking for a top level name for your site. The trick is - numbers!
Not numbers at the beginning of the domain address - that's really "old hat" and you only have to look at a list of expired domains to see how many owners of such addresses just allow them to die. Why? Because they don't work particularly well with either search engines or with real people - and something like "0000persiancats.com" just looks plain silly!
No, I'm talking about numbers in the "body" of the domain name itself, especially the numbers 2 and 4. Why? Well, the number 2 can be substituted for the word "to" and 4 can be read as "for".
Now, tie that in with one other little substitution trick - take the word "you" and substitute the letter "u" - and we have a method of finding a good top level domain name that still relates very closely to the site subject matter.
Let's go back to our persiancats example to demonstrate how effective a strategy this can be. Using all three of the highlighted tricks, we try searching for "persiancats2u.com" and "persiancats4u.com". And, guess what? At the time of writing, both are still available!
Two top level domain names, both closely related to the site content, either (or both) of which clearly and concisely indicate exactly what the site is about.
There you have it. A simple but effective method of grabbing a top level domain name for your site.
Next time your are searching for a good domain name, try it because, remember, your customer will always look for a .com website first!