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On the Web, you are your URL. Without a
www.yourname.com your Web Site is lost between several million of other sites..
A personalized domain name saves your potential
customers from
having to type long, strange URLs
when they want to find your Web Site (and you can bet that most of them won't
bother). The problem:
domain names are going fast. If the name of your business is "Copy Cats", for example, you can
bet that www.copycats.com is taken (it is, as well as: copycats.net,
copycats.org, copycats.cc,and copycats.ws ). Now,
do you know how to get the domain name for your business?
Fortunately, finding, getting, and using a domain name is not hard at all.
You can do everything mentioned above at
REGISTER.COM
with just your browser and a credit card. But it takes
time to create an
online identity and most of the time a good idea (and luck). Just make sure you grab your domain name before someone else
does, so don't wait 'til next month, week or even day. To see how keep reading.
To begin the registration process,
please go to REGISTER.COM . Enter the domain name you are interested in registering.
A screen will appear, indicating whether or not the domain name you are
interested in is available, with further instructions on how to proceed. If the domain name you want to register is available, you
will get a message.
If the domain name is taken, it will appear as a link. (By clicking on the link,
you can see Contact and WHOIS Information associated with the registered domain
name.) If the domain name you are
interested in registering has already been registered, you must select another
domain name that you would like to register, or try registering the same name
within a different Top Level Domain. For example if mybrand.com is not
available, try registering mybrand.net or mybrand.ws.
As with Bigstep.com, Register.com
was selected because it's easy of use and because of my own good experience
with this company. Also, Register.com offers some interesting tools.
For example:
- Multi-Name
Register which allows to register up to 30 domains at once
- Domain name reselling service,with bidding for the
names, which will allow you to see what are current trends
and prices and maybe to sell your domain with a big profit.
- "Domain Fast
Find" service which will find the domain name closest to what you need.
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