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How long ago was it that you purchased your Domain Name? Is it
time to re-register? Check your expiration date today! If you
have six months or less on your contract, re-register today,<...
Did you know that you can lose your digital piece of real
estate, even without an eviction notice? Imagine losing
everything in a single heartbeat: your business, your brand
equit...
By Shelley Lowery

I recently received an email from a concerned, fellow Internet business owner, asking for my opinion on an issue that could literally destroy his Internet business and...
Have you felt the frustration yet? Are you one of the 50,000 new
netrepreneurs trying weekly to get your site online only to get
caught up in the dot com feeding frenzy?

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What's in a name? In a word: Everything!

Choosing an appropriate domain name for your web site is one of
the first and most critical decisions you'll have to make on the
r...
Domain Names and Anchor Text
May 21, 2004

Branding vs Naming
Many people say that the name of a website should be original. It should convey some sense of branding unlike...
Every day thousands of domains 'expire' and are put back into
the pool of available domains that anyone can register. They can
be very valuable if you are looking for a quality domain fo...
Domain name speculation has to be one of the very best ways to
make money on the Internet. It's easy, fun, takes a very low
investment and has a huge profit potential. Businesses and
Cybersquatting is the purchase of a domain name in bad faith.
Usually this is done with the intention of reselling that domain
name back to the legal copyright holder, although sometimes...
Look out! The new domains are coming! "Dot-biz is going to be
the next coming of dot-com," I recently read in an article in
the Denver Post. The buzz has begun. Seven new top-level domai...
Are you getting the service that you require from your domain
registrar? Actually, thinking about it for a minute, it might be
a better question to ask, do you even know what services ar...
Today I received a notice in the mail claiming that my domain
name was about to expire. The letter was written in extremely
alarming terms, as if my entire world would be destroyed forev...
The internet sure makes it possible to do things quickly,
sometimes so quickly it will make your head spin. One day your
site is selling lots of product or is very popular, and the next<...
For newcomers to the Web, I'll give a brief definition of a
domain name.

Your domain name is the same as "www.yoursitename.com". It's
also known as your URL or Website Add...
Adaptation by Mike Banks Valentine with apologies to Shakespear

To be, or not to be: that is Domain question. Whether 'tis
nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of s...
I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like all of the
best domain names have already been taken. On more than one
occasion, I've come up with a great domain name for a site, onl...
It's quite common for a site to be referenced by more than one
domain name. In fact, most sites are referenced by at least two:
a www version and a non-www version. These are usually set...
I have purchased a lot of domain names for many different
reasons. Sometimes the domain name is for a business purchase,
such as an ecommerce site. I have purchased many domain names
This article shows how to setup your domain and explains DNS,
Nameservers, IP Address, Forwarding, domain registration and
trouble shooting.

Introduction and scope

Cologne, October 10. ICANN Registrar Secura announces today,
that it is accepting registrations of la-domains
(https://www.domainregistry.de/la-domains.html).

Los Angeles...
On Feb. 6th, 2003, websidestory Inc., [websidestory.com], a web
analyzation company released a report showing that the majority
of websites are now visited by direct navigation, instead ...
If you have or are about to purchase a domain name, YOU could be
in trouble and you don't even know it yet...

See, what the domain sellers won't tell you is that the domain
Are you having sleepless nights thinking of the right domain
name for your online business?

Well, everyone and everyone's grandmother knows by now why
having your own doma...
Too little has been told. The things that I've heard make it
even worse. Better nothing, then worse.

Tell me your Domain name and I will tell you how successful you
are.
If you're just starting out on the Internet choosing a domain
name is one of the first major decisions you will have to make.
I won't say that choosing a name for your site will determin...
Since every website needs a name, Dr. Steve Baba has written a
free ebook that will help you obtain a brandable, memorable
domain name at a reasonable cost, which will contribute to your...
What makes a good domain name? It's a name that gives you a
decisive edge over your competitors that they often find hard to
surmount. Your position in your industry can often be dictate...
The museum-domain is an exclusive domain. It is open for
registration by museums, organization of museums and friends of
museums. The notion of museum is understood very generously,
ICANN is reporting, that a new operator for the net-domains
registry will be designated in March 2005. The whole process for
the net-domains is similiar to the transition of the org-doma...
ICANN accredited Registrar Secura announces today, that Secura
as registrar supports all steps, which SITA has made, in order
to pre-register industrial codes of the aviation community a...
Many individuals and businesses have a web site but few
understand their rights to the ownership of that site, or their
responsibility to maintain that ownership. I bring this up
...
Did you forget your own name?

Now before you go reaching for your identification to check who
you are, let me reassure you. I'm talking about your domain name.

For...
The kr-domains belong to the popular domains in Asia. ICANN
accredited Registar Secura announces today, that the company can
register now kr-domains for anybody. Secura can register a
Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran has -as Hindustan
Times reports-some advice for Indian patriots: use in-domains
for Websites and e-mail IDs to popularise Indian identity i...
As RIPN, the Russian registry reports, RIPN stops to perform
the duties of .RU Second Level Domain Names Registrar from 2005
January 01. But RIPN remains the operator of the ru-registry ...
In this article we will cover the basics of what a domain name
is, how they work and why you need to have at least one. I am
going to try and avoid complicated computer terms and stick t...
Cologne, 12.10. 2004. ICANN accredited registrar Secura
announces today, that the company is accepting the registration
of za-domains.

The co.za-domains are the domains of...
The Commission of the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY and EURID, the registry
of eu-domains, have signed recently the contract about the
eu-domains.

EURID reports that, the Commission ...
The net-domain - the backbone of the web

We do not always realize, that figures are just quantity and can
deceive about quality.

In spite of the fact, that the net...
The number of registered domains has reached an all-time high of
more than 60 million domain names worldwide.

Figures show that country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) are
...
DENIC, the registry of the German Top Level Domain (TLD) has
announced, that it has received the eight millionth application
for the registration of a de-domain. The de-domain has the
Cologne, October 10 2004. ICANN Registrar Secura announces
today, that the company is now accepting the registration of
jp-domains from companies andindividuals outside of Japan.
...
An effective domain name can help to brand your site. It can
also communicate to your customers the types of products you
sell online. An easy to remember domain that describes your
A professional or business site is one where the primary purpose
of the site is to facilitate business transactions. You can sell
items directly online or exclusively offline, but the re...
What is .md? .md is the web address that identifies you, your
company or your organization with the healthcare industry.
Thousands of professionals and companies in the healthcare
...
The toll free number 1-800-Get-Rich belongs to the Resorts
Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Perfect vanity number for a
casino, right? Well apparently not. Their website shows the
a...
Content is King If you provide great content online users will
make sure that they can find your website. You can create a
domain with hyphens, longer phrases and words. You don't want t...
You visited a great website some time ago that had some
fantastic information on it. It is not easily found in search
engines results so you decide to type the domain name into your
--About Domain Names--

Choosing a domain name for your web site is a major step for any
individual or organization. You need domain names that are
sticky, short, meaningfu...
Most of the desirable one-word, two-word, and three-word dot com
domains are taken. However, if add plurals and hyphenated terms,
there is still some gold left in the domain name game. I...