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What is a domain name? |
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The best way to explain this is by examples.
Google.com, Yahoo.com, UncleDomain.com, Google.de, Yahoo.de, |
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Can I get one? |
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Sure anyone can get as many domains as one wants. Of
course one has to pay for them. Having said that there are certain
domains that you might not be able to purchase. For instance, .eu
domains can only be purchased by people living in a Europe. |
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Where can I get a domain name? |
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You can buy them online at companies called registrars.
Click here to get a list of registrars. We also provide details on
each of these registrars to give you a better idea about them. |
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What do I do with a domain after I purchase it? |
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You don't have to do anything. People buy domains for
various purposes.
Here is a list of reasons people buy domains for:
- To build websites.
Obviously this is the primary reason to buy a domain. People buy
land to build a house, a building or a whatever else they want
to build on that piece of land.
Click here to learn about building websites.
- To sell later for profit.
Some real estate investors buy land to sell it later for profit.
Of course, they believe that the price of their land will
increase in the future.
In the same way there are a lot of people who buy domains to
hold onto them and sell them later at a higher price for
profit.
The people who invest on domain names to sell them for profit
are called domainers.
To learn more about buying and selling domains for profit click
here.
- To park for profit.
Now this is something that most people don't know much about.
Some people buy domains that get what is called 'type-ins'. For
example many people in California search for mortgage in
California. Some of these people are likely to type
CaliforniaMortgage.com directly on the addressbar. So if you
were to own the domain CaliforniaMortgage.com you just got what
is called a type-in.
There are many companies that can put up a list of advertisers
on the site CaliforniaMortgage.com. When a visitor to this
site clicks on any of the advertiser links, the owner of
CaliforniaMortgage.com makes a little bit of money.
There are many people who make a decent profit just parking
their domains.
You can learn more on domain parking by clicking here.
- For your personal or company
safety.
By safety we mean protecting your company or personal name from
being used against you. For example, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo
all have their own .com's, i.e., microsoft.com, google.com and
yahoo.com.
But they also own microsoft.net, google.net and yahoo.net. They
do not have proper content on these .net domains, if not, not at
all. They own these domains so that another individual or
company will not purchase them and build sites against them.
Otherwise, someone could simply register microsoft.net and build
a site that heavily criticizes Microsoft. Of course there are
also trademark issues to consider for anyone who purchases
microsoft.net, but that's for advanced lessons.
Here is another one.
I will assume that you know who Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
are. I will also assume that you know they had a baby girl on
May 27 2006. They named their baby Shiloh Nouvel.
Now here is an excerpt from AllHeadlineNews.com
Los Angeles, CA (AHN) -
New mom Angelina Jolie has reserved 24 domain names featuring
various versions of her daughter Shiloh Nouvel's name.
According to a report by the Australian news website, internet
registration files show the Web addresses "shilohjolie",
"shilohpitt", "shilohjoliepitt", "shilohnouveljolie",
"shilohnouvelpitt" and "shilohnouveljoliepitt"
- with the extensions ".com", ".org",
".net" and ".info" - were reserved as of May
27, the baby's birthday.
Jolie will have the control of the Uniform Resource Locators
(URLs), the Web addresses, for one year.
Jolie and Brad Pitt, appeared to have learned from the
misfortunes of fellow stars Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, whose
daughter's name, Suri, was co-opted by someone else who
registered the URL "suricruise.com".
Get some details here.
- For vanity.
Well you could always buy a domain name like GeorgeBushSucks.com
or GeorgeBushTheHero.com or simply MikeAndTammy.com and then
never build any site on them. Then you could go around and brag
to everyone about the domain names you own.
- Other reasons.
If you don't want a free web based email like a hotmail, yahoo
mail or gmail any more you could always get a more fun or
professional email address.
If you your name is John McAndrews, you could get a
domain name McAndrews.com and then create an email for yourself
like John@McAndrews.com. Your girlfriend could have
Jane@McAndrews.com and your dog could have Rover@McAndrews.com.
You don't need to build a website on the domain McAndrews.com.
There could be other reasons people buy domains, but I can't
seem to think any of them.
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If you knew the answers to the above questions already
then you are not a total beginner.
For a more advanced level of information please visit our Domainers
Resources section. |
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