Domain Name Registration
Before you publish a site on the Internet you must register your unique
domain name with a domain name registration authority. A domain name is
an easy-to-remember web site address.
What is a domain name?
When you want to visit a web site, you enter a domain name (e.g.
your-domain.com) or a Uniform Resource Locator (e.g.
http://www.your-domain.com) into your browser's address bar. In order to
show you the requested site, your browser first needs to find out the IP
address corresponding to the requested domain name because machines address
each other by IP addresses—domain names were devised for humans. So, the
browser queries the name servers in the distributed Domain Name System,
which translates the requested domain name to IP address and returns the IP
address to the browser. Finally, the browser connects to the web server at
the specified IP address and retrieves the web pages from there. Thus, to
allow other users to find your site by its domain name it must be registered
with the Domain Name System. When choosing a domain name for your site,
consider a word or combination of words that is relevant to your business,
brand name, or topic of interest. A domain name should be easy to remember.
If your domain name will comprise several words, you may want to separate
these words with hyphens: this will help search engines distinguish between
words; therefore, the users will be able to find your site faster.
Tips and Tricks
To increase the chances to find your site for your customers, you may also
want to buy the non-hyphenated version of the same domain name, for example,
yourdomain.com and redirect it to your original domain - your-domain.com. To
protect your domain name, you may want to register it in different top level
domains: your-domain.com, your-domain.net. For a domain name comprising a
single word that users can misspell and type incorrectly, you may also want
to purchase one or few misspelled versions of your domain name that you will
point to your original site. To give you a real life example of how this can
be: there is the Google search engine with a primary web site address
www.google.com. Knowing that people sometimes swap two adjacent letters or
type more letters than required, the three additional domain names pointing
to the original site were set up: www.gogle.com, www.goolge.com, and
www.gooogle.com.
Once you have decided on the right domain name(s), we can register and
set up your domain names for you.