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Web Domains
Getting a good,
memorable Web domain name is one of the best investments you can make,
whether it’s for a personal site or a startup business.
In the madness of
the Internet boom, finding a good domain name was tough. As soon as
the .com addresses became available, entrepreneurs rushed in to claim
nearly every word.com in the English dictionary. Then the auctions
ensued, and would-be online businesses were paying top dollar for good
website names.
But those days are
mostly over. Now that people have realized that online businesses are
not a goldmine waiting to happen, the availability of website names
has loosened up. And with the advent of .net and a variety of
country-specific Top Level Domains (TLDs), like “.uk” and ".tv," the
overall supply of website names has increased exponentially.
So if you’re ready
to host your first website, or think it’s time to rename the one you
have, here are some tips on how to go about it.
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The
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If you want to
come up with a distinctive name for your website, leave the dictionary
on the shelf and just let your imagination go wild. You might also
consider stringing together a few words to come up with a catchy
phrase. And if you plan on starting a business, it is probably wisest
to choose a name for your company such that yourcompany.com is
available, which means choosing a non-dictionary-word name.
"Choosing a
Name"
If you can’t find a name that you like in the dot.com arena, there are
other Top Level Domains (TLDs) to choose from: Little nations like
Kazakhstan and the Christmas Islands are cashing in on the sudden
wealth of virtual real estate and will be happy to sell you
yourdomain.kz or yourdomain.cx or whatever.
"Domain Search"
Start your domain name search here. This site lets you plug in names
to see if the name you are looking for is still available.
(Caution: Canadian business are better served by Canadian registrars)
"Why WWW?"
The World Wide Web as we know it works because somewhere far away,
there is a root server system that tracks the billions of IP addresses
and their corresponding domain names. Without this system, navigating
the Web would be impossible for one very simple reason: The Web would
not exist.
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Register and Host
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Once you’ve
settled on a good website name, the next thing you’ll have to deal
with is getting it registered and hosted. The price to register a
domain ranges from $10 to $35 US/year, and there are now dozens of
accredited registrars. When it comes to hosting, you’ll have some
decisions to make about how fancy you want to go. As with everything
in life, the more elaborate, the more expensive.
"Hosting
Choices"
Your plan can be basic or you can add online web design tools and dial
up accounts.
(Hosting by
Pest-Control-Canada is $10 Can. per month.)
Hints, Pointers, and Tips 'O the Trade
1. If you are dead
set on a certain name but it's already taken, you can always tack on
"-inc" or "-co" or "-ventures" or whatever before the ".com" part. The
annoying part of that, of course, is having to explain to everyone
that, no, yourcompany.com is someone else -- you are at
yourcompany-inc.com.
2. Choosing a host
requires the same kind of forward-thinking you should apply when
building your website — you want your host to scale with you so that
you don't have to change companies in a year when you want more disk
space.
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