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Frequently
Asked Questions
What is a Domain Name?
What are the Benefits of Owning a Domain Name?
Who Owns the Domain Name?
Is the Name I want Still Available?
What Rules Determine the Form of Domain Names?
Can I Register More Than One Domain Name?
What is DNS, or Domain Name Service?
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WHAT IS A DOMAIN NAME?
A domain name represents your "address" on the
Internet. It is a phrase containing several components separated by a period
("dot").
Each domain name includes a "Top level" domain which specifies the broad
category of an organization. Domain Names ending in .COM were traditionally
used by commercial,
for-profit organizations, while names ending in .ORG were assigned to miscellaneous,
usually non-profit organizations; and .NET for
network infrastructure machines, etc. However, today these distinctions are
often overlooked, and anyone can register a name in any of the Top-Levels.
"Second level" domains represent your specific identity, as in YOURNAME.com
In an e-mail address, the domain name follows the @ symbol, so
that John or Jane Smith's address at this company might be: jsmith@yourname.com
Internet computers that track and locate each domain name
actually use numeric addresses (eg. 198.197.196.195) , so that each domain name is
assigned a numeric equivalent. You don't have to worry about this since Domain Name
Servers (DNS) take care of the matching. However, this is the reason why DNS
is required before you can register a name.
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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF OWNING A DOMAIN NAME?
Like any trade name, logo, or brand name, your domain
name represents a part of your business identity - something customers and business
associates can recognize, remember, and positively associate with your services or
products. Registering your domain name will at very least prevent someone else
from using it. More important, however, is that with your own use on the Internet it
becomes a constant positive reinforcement.
With your own domain name, access on the World Wide Web becomes
a simple matter of entering Yourname.com. No one has to write it down, they
remember it.
Similarly, every Email message can affirm your name as your address becomes
"you@yourname.com".
- simple, elegant, and much more effective than "you@someunrelatedprovider.com".
Also, by doing business under your own domain name, you can arrange for multiple Email "aliases," all going to a single or multiple parties. They can
even be forwarded to people outside your physical location.
Finally....ITS PORTABLE and
PERMANENT! If you've ever had to
change your service provider, or even move your physical business address, you know what
an incredible hassle it is to notify everyone. Remember, that without your own domain
name, your Internet address is tied to that of your service provider. Thus, if you want to
change providers you also change your Web address and probably Email address as well.
Consider for a moment: Are your ready to print new cards, brochures, etc., or contact all
your clients, suppliers, business associates, etc. of your new address? Can you even
remember them or reach them if you want to? And, every day you're in business the list
gets longer. Your own domain name lets you avoid all that, giving you a permanent Internet
address. You can change your service providers every month if you want, and your address
will always remain yourname.com.
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WHO OWNS THE DOMAIN NAME?
Providing you aren't taking someone else's trademark or
otherwise infringing on their legal rights, You, the applicant, become the owner of the
domain name. Our company has no interests in or claims
on the domain name. The owner has full
authority and responsibility for the domain name and its use.
Click here for ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy
(UDRP)
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IS MY DOMAIN NAME STILL AVAILABLE?
You can find out by accessing the official Whois database from our site:
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Check Name Availability
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WHAT RULES
DETERMINE THE FORM OF DOMAIN NAMES?
A Domain Name has two parts, with the "top level"
domain indicating the broad category of an organization.
"Second level" domains represent your specific name, i.e.:
yourname .com
The total length of the two-part domain name may be up to 67 characters (including the
.com).
The only characters allowed in a domain name are letters, digits (numerals) and the dash
(-).
A domain name can not begin or end with a dash.
Correct examples:
your-name .com
yourname2000 .com
Incorrect examples:
-yourname .com
yourcompanynameistoolong .com
Domain Names are case insensitive, ie. capitalization (lower or upper cases) is ignored.
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CAN I REGISTER MORE THAN ONE
DOMAIN NAME?
Most definitely. You can register as
many domain names as you need.
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WHAT IS DNS, or DOMAIN NAME SERVICE?
Computers identify each other with numbers rather than words. Each
domain name is therefore assigned a numeric equivalent, called an IP (Internet Protocol)
address, which might look something like this: 123.12.34.1. DNS (the Domain Name System)
is a set of distributed databases containing these numeric equivalents and their
corresponding domain names. DNS has servers located all over the Internet which perform
the translation between names and numbers for other computers. This arrangement allows
users to invoke an easy-to-remember name (yourname.com) rather than a difficult string of
numbers when seeking out a site on the Internet.
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