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Choosing A Domain Name

--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, meaningful, easy to remember and at the roll of your tongue!

It is very easy to choose a domain name but difficult to find a good name, simply because of the fact that most of the good domain names are taken up by organisations. These domain name organisations take up hundreds of thousands of domain names and treat them as investments. It is not as easy to choose a good domain name. Sometimes, even web professionals spend hours at their computers to find good domain names!

Domain name registrations are cheap to maintain and subscriptions typically last a year. The subscriptions are renewable and paid to registrars by the design companies.

The most common domain names end with .com, .net, etc. Country specific domain names will end with com.au, co.uk, .co.jp, etc. For organisations, domain names will end with .org or be country specific- .org.au, .org.uk, etc.

Not sure about domain names and web sites? Seek web professional help.

Lester Boey works in an Australian SEO and Web Design company (Australian Search Engine Optimization and Web Designs Company). His life revolves around SEO; providing full-time and freelance seo services to US and Australian businesses. Email: projects@definiteweb.com

In The News:

ICANN Loses Control of Its Own Domain Names
Slashdot - Jul 5, 2008
NotNormallyNormal writes "CBC picked up an AP story about ICANN recently losing control over two of their domain names on Thursday, June 26. ...

KPIC
Watch out! Web’s doomsday clock is ticking
Sify, India - 4 hours ago
In fact, domain names are only a convenience for people who have better luck remembering to type, say, www.google.com, than they would have trying to ...
Waiting for the internet meltdown Times Online
Online address registration body loses its own Economic Times
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Domain name decision looks like Web.disorg -- editorial
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Jul 4, 2008
The people who run the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers think opening up domain names -- those last few letters at the end of ...

SIDN quarantines expired Dutch domain names for 40 days
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands - Jul 3, 2008
Dutch organisation SIDN, which manages .nl domain names, intends to quarantine terminated domain names for 40 days. The object being to prevent domain names ...

What's in a name?
Globe and Mail, Canada - Jul 3, 2008
Proposed domain names must also be unlikely to cause confusion with other domains, and pass muster according to trademark laws, to say nothing of the United ...

Who Could Hack Web Regulators?
Infopackets, Canada - Jul 4, 2008
ICANN and IANA manage the routing system which allows web users to type in a domain name (such as www.infopackets.com) rather than having to know the ...

Best Syndication
The basics of Domain Name Registration
Best Syndication, CA - Jul 4, 2008
The first step to starting your website is to choose a name for your website, which is also known as its domain name. You can only choose a domain name that ...

Go Daddy milestone: 30 million domain names
Arizona Republic, AZ - Jul 2, 2008
The unidentified Go Daddy customer registered the domain name www.ruleofsaving.com last week, bringing the Scottsdale-based Internet domain name registrar ...

Irish Internet Services Company Blacknight Introduces ‘co.nl ...
HostSearch.com - Jul 4, 2008
COM) – Irish internet services company Blacknight has introduced ‘co.nl’ domain names to its suite of offerings, it was reported yesterday. ...

Domain name gold rush begins
SmartCompany.com.au, Australia - Jul 3, 2008
Every country has a country code domain name, such as .com.au and co.uk. But the changes mean new names could include company names such as . ...

domain names - Google News

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