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01.17.13
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Domain Names and Search Engine Ranking


When we talk about search engine optimization regarding domain search then the point comes that is our domain crating problem for the customers or site users? If you want to stay ahead of your competition, then you might consider looking at the length of time your competitors have registered their domain names. If your competitors have generally renewed their domain names for one or two years, you might consider registering your domain name for 5 or 10 years.

While putting off your domain name’s expiration date might help your search engine rankings, keep in mind that this may be only a small victory when it comes to search engine rankings.

This is a good thing to register a domain for a long at least 10 years. You don’t want to deal with the process annual process of renewing them every year. It’s best to obtain the domain names that you want to keep for a while and renew then on a 5 to 10 year plan.

If your domain name expires, there’s a good chance that someone will register your domain name immediately after it expires. So you should be careful about this misshapen.

01.17.13
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Domain Name Registration and Privacy


When you register your first domain name, you get your introduction to one of them. There’s a lot of information they want. Your name, your email address, your physical address, your phone number. For each of 4 separate categories, and the Registrant, Admin and Technical categories are publicly available

Email addresses, phone number and physical addresses must be valid. Once again the right to privacy of law-abiding individuals is being abridged supposedly to help catch lawbreakers. Since this information would be provided under a court order making it publicly available just invites abuse.

Spammers, scammers, stalkers and the idle whacko can easily get this information. The result is an increase in the amount of spam. So, there are two ways to protect your privacy if you are a private individual without access to a legal entity:

First a proxy registration is one alternative. You make binding legal agreement with a company which will register the domain name as if they owned it and then provide their own information to meet the requirement. For each domain, they will set-up a special email which they will monitor and forward to you, usually after spam filtering, if you want them to.

They retain your data and will also monitor physical mail. You will be notified of first class mail which appears to or could be legal documents or if registered or couriered mail arrives.

The other alternative is called “private registration”. Here your name would still appear as registrant. You would provide the names of the admin and technical contacts. But the address, email and phone number would be provided and monitored by the organization handling the private registration in essentially the same manner as a proxy registration. Thus with this alternative you remain in full legal control of your domain name since it is registered in your name rather than the name of a proxy.

If you decide to pursue a proxy or private registration, make very sure that you are working with a legitimate company with a track record. A domain name can be a very valuable possession. Both your registrar and, if it’s a separate organization, the entity that does the proxy or private registration must be quality, legitimate outfits. Registrars offering extremely low prices which are way out of line with the going rates – unless it’s a special – just might be after your credit card and identity.

01.17.13
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Domain Name Trademarks


Now days internet business grows and the value of your domain name increases. The issue of a domain name trademark should move to the top of your list. You need to guard against unscrupulous competitors that may try to incorporate your domain name in their meta tags to obtain search engine rankings under your name. If you are having domain name trademark you can go after these individuals and compel the search engine to remove their listings.

What Is A Trademark?
A trademark is a distinctive item that is used to identify a logo, product, device, package or service. The trademark identifies the item as being provided by a particular firm. To protect these items you can obtain a mark from the patent and trademark office that prohibits others from trying to gain economic advantage from your mark.

Locators Cannot Be Registered :
A domain name is a locator for file pages. When you type in your domain name, a server locates and displays files. If a domain is used solely for this purpose, it will not be granted a mark. Instead, the domain name must be incorporated into the site.

Generic and Descriptive Terms :
Domain names that are generic or descriptive in nature cannot be registered because they fail to designate a distinctive product or service.

Trademarks are an important factor in protecting your Internet business. Armed with a trademark, you can keep competitors from pulling traffic off the search engines when people search for your site.

01.17.13
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Benefits of having a domain name and web site for your business


A website give a customer a ‘shop-front’ that is not only for 24 hours a day or seven days a week but it is also situated right on their desktop. A website gives the customer. Customer can access information on all your products, no more sales person with limited knowledge trying to explain something. No more waiting lines for help, all people will access immediately.

Domain name of your website gives great freedom to the business process. Having your own name is like having an address, then infinite emails can be added to the name so different departments within the company can be reached without having to wait at reception.

A domain name adds professional authenticity. In the area of communication the email system opens up many avenues. Instead of having to put clients on hold because of limited personnel, innumerable email can arrive at once, even when there is no one in the office. Website and domain name is easy, simple and most importantly it’s very cost-effective process. It’s a key door to anyone those who wants to enter in a mall.

01.17.13
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5 Reasons to Invest in a Domain Name for Your Business


Though Economic times call for small businesses to get creative and acquiring a domain name is an important first step in building a successful online business. Purchasing a domain name is only the solution to make your business online. Cpwebhosting.net provides you 5 reasons why to purchase a domain name:

  1. COST :
    The cost of acquiring a premium domain names is cheaper than continuously paying for local or regional print advertising.
  2. THE INTERNET IS KING :
    Customers now look to the internet first where they can find you 24/7 support. When was the last time you flipped through the Yellow Pages?
  3. GEOGRAPHY :
    You can immediately reach a broader market with the Internet because your site is always available to all potential customers no matter what time it is where they are.
  4. CUSTOMER CONTACT :
    You can more easily stay in touch with your prospects and customers by gathering their email address and interests directly from your website.
  5. MEASUREABLE AND FLEXIBLE MARKETING OPTIONS :
    Online advertising is easy to track and adjust based on your budget. Dial up or dial down your marketing efforts depending on how well they are generating traffic.
01.17.13
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Importance of Domain Name


Domain name is the name given to a website. It distinguishes one website from another. It provides a unique identity for you in the web world. You can promote your business by choosing the domain name carefully. Domain names are permanent and it retains your identity throughout your web presence. Generally, companies choose the company name or brand name as the domain name.

World Wide Web is the name given to the huge network that we call as Internet. It contains millions of sites. New and new sites are being added on a daily basis. More and more people are using the Internet for their business and work purposes. With this wonderful medium, business has truly become global.This has given a new dimension to modern day business. In future, it is expected that business will be done online only. Already online transactions are the preferred mode of business for a high percentage of the consumers in the advanced countries. So, we can safely assume that modern businessmen cannot do without online transactions. Everyone knows about the importance of the business card for the companies. Domain names have become the modern day business card. Business cards have their limitations, whereas websites has the potential of accessing innumerable customers. It helps to promote business and get new customers. The domain name should be able to portray the image of the company. Domain name should also be search engine friendly, so that customers are able to find your company easily. This makes your products accessible to millions of customers worldwide. Modern day business has become highly competitive and having the right domain name enhances the prospects of a company in a huge way.

The next step after choosing your domain name is to register it. Domain name registration is very easy. You can approach one of the many web hosting companies to register the name for you. It hardly takes a few minutes to register. Once registered, the domain name will become the unique online identity of your company. Computers find the domain names through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. But it is not humanly possible to remember these IP addresses. Domain names are more user-friendly and easy to remember thus enabling the prospective online customers to find your company. Domain names are generally simple words or phrases. It is essential to choose words of phrases as relevant to your company as possible. Always choose short names which are easy to remember.

01.17.13
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Domain Name Registration and Privacy


When you register your first domain name, you get your introduction to one of them. There’s a lot of information they want. Your name, your email address, your physical address, your phone number. For each of 4 separate categories, and the Registrant, Admin and Technical categories are publicly available

Email addresses, phone number and physical addresses must be valid. Once again the right to privacy of law-abiding individuals is being abridged supposedly to help catch lawbreakers. Since this information would be provided under a court order making it publicly available just invites abuse.

Spammers, scammers, stalkers and the idle whacko can easily get this information. The result is an increase in the amount of spam. So, there are two ways to protect your privacy if you are a private individual without access to a legal entity:

First a proxy registration is one alternative. You make binding legal agreement with a company which will register the domain name as if they owned it and then provide their own information to meet the requirement. For each domain, they will set-up a special email which they will monitor and forward to you, usually after spam filtering, if you want them to.

They retain your data and will also monitor physical mail. You will be notified of first class mail which appears to or could be legal documents or if registered or couriered mail arrives.

The other alternative is called “private registration”. Here your name would still appear as registrant. You would provide the names of the admin and technical contacts. But the address, email and phone number would be provided and monitored by the organization handling the private registration in essentially the same manner as a proxy registration. Thus with this alternative you remain in full legal control of your domain name since it is registered in your name rather than the name of a proxy.

If you decide to pursue a proxy or private registration, make very sure that you are working with a legitimate company with a track record. A domain name can be a very valuable possession. Both your registrar and, if it’s a separate organization, the entity that does the proxy or private registration must be quality, legitimate outfits. Registrars offering extremely low prices which are way out of line with the going rates – unless it’s a special – just might be after your credit card and identity.

01.17.13
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DOMAIN NAME


A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS). Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. In general, a domain name represents an Internet Protocol (IP) resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, a server computer hosting a web site, or the web site itself or any other service communicated via the Internet.

Domain name is basically divided 3 subordinates levels these are called sub domains. The first-level set of domain names are the top level domains example of these domains are com, net, and the country code top level domain etc. The second and the third level domain names are typically open for reservation by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, create other publicly accessible Internet resources or run web sites. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.

An important function of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.

Domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.

The rapid growth of the network made it impossible to maintain a centrally organized hostname registry and in 1983 the Domain Name System was introduced on the ARPANET and published by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers manages the top-level development and architecture of the Internet domain name space. It authorizes domain name registrars, through which domain names may be registered and reassigned.

A domain name consists of one or more parts, technically called labels that are conventionally concatenated, and delimited by dots, such as example.com.

  • The right-most label conveys the top-level domain; for example, the domain name http://www.example.com belongs to the top-level domain com.
  • The hierarchy of domains descends from the right to the left label in the name; each label to the left specifies a subdivision, or sub domain of the domain to the right. For example: the label example specifies a node example.com as a subdomain of the com domain, and www is a label to create http://www.example.com, a subdomain of example.com. This tree of labels may consist of 127 levels.
  • A hostname is a domain name that has at least one associated IP address. However, other top-level domains, particularly country code top-level domains, may indeed have an IP address, and if so, they are also hostnames.
  • Hostnames impose restrictions on the characters allowed in the corresponding domain name. A valid hostname is also a valid domain name, but a valid domain name may not necessarily be valid as a hostname.

Few companies have offered low-cost, below-cost or even cost-free domain registrations with a variety of models adopted to recoup the costs to the provider. These usually require that domains be hosted on their website within a framework or portal that includes advertising wrapped around the domain holder’s content, revenue from which allows the provider to recoup the costs.

01.17.13
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MULTIPLE DOMAIN HOSTING


Your domain name is the door to your website. Without a domain name your web pages will be isolated from the Internet world and accessible only to a limited number of visitors. To find your place on the World Wide Web, the most important society we know today, you should make your choice of a domain that best represents your personal or business profile and works for its popularization. The more attractive and recognizable you choose it to be the more likely your friends; partners and customers will show up on your website’s doorstep to pay you a visit.

A domain name:

  1. Can contain almost all character types – a-z, 0-9 characters and ‘-‘ (hyphen) are allowed in a domain’s syntax;
  2. It is not case-sensitive – capital letters can be used visually         separate the words in a domain for easier memorization;
  3. Should be short and simple – the simple and shorter a domain is, the easier it is to memorize for visitors;
  4. Should represent your online identity – your brand name/business profile contained in your domain increases your popularity;
  5. Should contain the right keywords – every single keyword in your domain works for increasing your search engine ranking position;

With the evolution of the web hosting services it has become more and more affordable to host multiple different websites under their own domain names within a single web hosting account and manage them all from one master Control Panel. The multiple domains hosting service offers centralized website and domain name management ease of use and extreme convenience in controlling your overall multi-sided online presence.

The multiple domains hosting service offers centralized website and domain name management options, tools for complete DNS management, DNS forwarding, ease of use and extreme convenience in controlling your overall multi-sided online presence. Also, with a multiple domain hosting solution you are able to use a parked domains service which enables you to secure a given domain for the purposes of a future project of yours, for web traffic redirection or for sales purposes.

If your goal is to make full use of what the Web has to offer, expanding your online presence over time, you will definitely need to get a multi domain hosting solution. You will not need to bother managing separate accounts for your sites, domains and emails, since you have them all merged into one single account with this service. And you can get as many extra domain name services as you wish – there are no limits at all.

If you are wondering which multiple domain hosting service would be good for your sites, you need to look at the plans’ features list. The main difference between the multiple domain hosting services provided by the web hosting companies is in the number of the hosted domains, the management tools and the security and protection options.

A good quality web hosting company provides Control Panel which provides the necessary set of tools for complete management of your domains. Their customers are able to set custom DNS settings to their domains by using the Control Panel’s in-built DNS tools. They also offer a DNS Registration service and a WHOIS ID protection option.
With each registered/transferred domain name that you host you get multiple options for full DNS Management, unlimited Parked Domains, Anti-virus Protection and SPF Protection for your Webmail and POP3/IMAP email accounts and many more.

01.17.13
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INTERNET DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION


A domain name is your address on the Internet. Like any address, it is important for the success of your business that you use, promote and protect it so that customers can find you easily. More than this, your domain name is your online-identity and brand – your customers won’t just know you as Your Company Inc., they will know you as “yourcompany.com”.

Domain names were developed to make it easy for people to find things on the Internet. Computers find each other by using a set of numbers called an IP Address (IP is an acronym for Internet Protocol), these look like 69.72.214.243. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a set of software and a computer that translates domain names into their matching IP addresses and vice versa.

The domain name must conform to Standard rules for domain names:

  • Only characters in the range of A to Z, 0 to 9 and hyphen are allowed.
  • Names cannot begin or end with a hyphen.

The maximum length is 63 characters (exclusive of the .com, .org, .net portion).

You can get a Domain name registered from one of the Domain name registrars. The pricing for Domains varies from registrar to registrar. Some registrars dupe their customers by charging exorbitant fees for domain registration. Sometimes they charge $ 35 per year. Some others can offer you the same domain at $ 7.99. It does not matter which registrar you choose to get your domain registered. As ultimately the domain records are going to be held by the registry.

A domain name is a combination of two or more words. The last word is called “Top Level Domain”. A Top-Level Domain (TLD) is the suffix that is attached to the end of a domain name. For instance, in the domain name, netlynx.com, “.com” is the TLD. Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) such as .com, .org, .net, can be registered by anybody. To the left of TLD comes “Second Level Domain”(SLD). E.g. in ‘netlynx.org’, netlynx is the second level domain; ‘.com’ is the TLD. One can also have ‘domains.netlynx.com’; here ‘domains’ is called the host name or “Third Level Domain”.

Domain Registration is the term used to describe the process of acquiring a domain name from a domain name registrar.

Any entity such as Individuals, Organizations, ISPs, Corporate, Resellers, etc in any type of profession can register a domain to get recognition on the Internet.

You can register a domain name from a minimum of one year to a maximum of ten years.