Who Will register your Domain and in Whose name?

Although registering a domain name is straightforward, some people are not comfortable doing it themselves or they’re too busy, so it’s not uncommon for a web designer or a company to register a domain on behalf of their client. If that’s how you’re having your domain name registered, there are several steps you’ll want to take to make sure that the domain remains under your control.


At the very least, you should be listed as the registrant: Use your mailing information, your e-mail address, and so on. The registrant is the one who controls the domain name. There are three other contacts for a domain name: administrative, technical, and billing. Usually all four contacts are the same, but it can be useful to have the person or company helping you listed as the technical contact. That way they have authority to talk to the registrar if there are technical issues to be resolved. The key is that you be listed as the registrant.


Of all the information listed for you as registrant, the most important is your e-mail address. It’s used for a number of crucial tasks:

1. Notifying you of the domain’s Q expiration date
2. Sending approval requests should you want to transfer to another domain registrar
3. Sending password information should you ever lose your password

Once the domain name has been confi gured so that it’s pointing to your server and your website is functional, you should change the password for the domain manager. You can always supply the designer or company with this new information should they later need to help you with the domain name. What you don’t want is to discover a year later that some former employee still has access to your domain and goes in and changes the registrant e-mail and password, thereby taking control of the domain.

Action Items:

1. If you don’t have a domain name yet, registration is very easy to do yourself. You can get someone to help you later with correctly pointing the domain at the server, and then change the password when they’re done.
2. If someone else is going to register your domain for you, clarify in whose name it’s being registered. Make sure it’s yours. Also, make sure they’re paying a good price.
3. If you already have a domain name registered, but didn’t do it yourself, check who is listed as the registrant.

Do you know What Makes a good Domain registrar?

There really isn’t much for a domain registrar to do except record who registered which domain name, so the only way to tell registrars apart is by the other services they offer. These services break down into two broad categories:

Domain management—How easy is it for you to manage your domains, update information, organize multiple domains, and so on?

Add-on functions—Does the registrar off er services such as auto renewal or free e-mail accounts?


If you have only one domain, the quality of a registrar’s domain management interface might not be all that important. But if you have more than one, you’ll appreciate being able to easily tell the status of all your domains, organize them into groups, sort them in various ways, quickly manage where the domains are pointing, and so on.

The other important part of a domain management system is the help function. You deal with domain names once and then maybe not again for another year or more. Without a good help system, it can be difficult to remember what you should be doing. Contextual popup help screens are good, but video tutorials are even better.


When you’re checking out domain registrars, look for a demo of the domain management interface on their websites: a live demo that you can try out or at the very least a video demo. If there’s nothing there, you can always call their sales department and request a tour. Remember, you can get good quality management tools and very low domain prices, so don’t just sett le for low prices.

It’s also useful for domain registrars to off er add-on functions that make your life easier. Here’s a checklist in order of what I think is most important:


Frequent renewal notices—Receive at least 60, 30, 15, and 7 days before a domain expires (e-mail gets lost, or you’re away, and so on).

Auto renewal—You can turn this on if you don’t want to worry about renewal notices at all. Just make sure your credit card is up to date.

Auto lock—This requires a special code if you want to transfer to another registrar, but it also means that someone can’t easily transfer the domain without your authorization.

Free e-mail—If you don’t have a website yet, you can still have e-mail service using the domain name.

301 redirects—If you want to use the domain name to point to an existing website, this is the proper way to do it.

important: Sometimes you’ll see offers of a free domain, but remember that you’re paying for the domain
somehow—usually by committing to a hosting contract for a period of time. Always read the fine print to understand the terms. For example, the domain might be free for only one year of registration, or you have to pay a high yearly rate for the domain name if you stop hosting with the registrar. The same can be true even for low‑priced domains, so check to see what’s involved with any special deal.


Registrars vs Hosts:

It’s easy to think these two are one and the same because so many registrars offer web hosting and so many
web hosting providers offer domain names. But there is absolutely no requirement that you have your domain names registered through the company that hosts your website, or vice versa. Registering domains and hosting websites are two distinct functions.

Tips: 


1. If you discover a domain better pricing or services, you can transfer your domain to that other registrar at any time. Your existing registrar should not charge any fee for this, but the new registrar will charge you for an additional year of registration (which you would have spent anyway).

2. Use one domain registrar Ending up with two or three or more registrars can be a nightmare of paperwork, and you can even end up missing notices for domains that need to be renewed.

How Much Should You Pay for a Domain?

The price of a domain name is determined by two variables: the base price set by the agencies that control the various domain name extensions (.com, .in, .org, .us, .tv, and so on) and the markup charged by domain name
registrars.

On top of that, different registrars might offer radically different prices for the same domain extension by creating special offers; for instance, if you transfer over from another registrar or host your website through the registrar.


You can also get an existing domain name by agreeing to pay the current registrant to transfer the registration to you. Many registrars offer domain name brokering services to facilitate these kinds of transactions, or some will run domain name auctions. The cost of registering a domain name this way is completely a matter of what you’re willing to pay the current registrant—it can be a couple of hundred dollars or a couple of thousand (or more).


Some top-level domains such as .tv are actually country codes which have been licensed by the country to be sold to anyone in the world. You’re paying for the privilege of having this exclusive extension. In the case of other extensions, such as .pro, you’re paying for an accreditation process among other things. Some specialty domains such as .me have come down considerably in price after initial sales were slow, so sometimes it can pay to wait.

Many domain extensions allow you to register a name for up to 10 years, whereas the minimum registration period is generally 1 year,  but can sometimes be 2 years.Although registering for several years in advance eliminates the worry of missing a renewal, make sure that you don’t forget about your domain. In particular, it’s easy for your contact e-mail to have changed in a few years, so you end up not getting the renewal notice. As long as you keep your information up to date, lengthy registration times can be helpful.

If you’ve registered a domain for a fairly new extension, it might be worth doing a yearly registration. The price for those domains can well go down over time (the .com names were $35 per year not that long ago),
and it would be a shame to lock it in at the higher price. The final point to keep in mind about domain pricing is that domain registrars have nothing to offer except price and service. Having an amazing price with poor service is no deal at all. But what counts as good service from a registrar?

Do you need Multiple Domain names?

Every website should have only one domain name by which it’s known, but there are all sorts of reasons to have additional domain names pointing to that site. Here are a few:

Common misspellings—Suppose that your name is Healthwise; it would make sense to get an additional domain name with the spelling Health wise because most people will enter it that way out of habit.

Common variations—If you use a number in your primary domain (health2you), you should register an  additional domain name with the literal spelling (health to you).

Doing business in multiple countries—A British company might have a domain name with the country top level domain .in, but also have the domain name with .com. Keep in mind that most country domain regulators require a legal presence to register their domains.

Block competing domains—Someone else might register the same domain with a different extension. You can prevent this by registering the .com, .net, and .org versions of your domain name, for example.

Special promotional domain names—Suppose that you develop a fitness calculator on your Health-wise fitness website. It might be worth registering a domain such as take thefitnesschallenge.com and point it at that page on your site.

Although most new domain names are not expensive, having a lot of domain names can add up, so you’ll need to weigh how important some of these variations are: how likely misspellings might be, how much competition there is, and whether people in a certain country care if they’re going to a domain with their country’s extension.


As more top-level domain (TLD) extensions are added or country codes are opened to general use, there can be a lot of hype about the need to register your domain name with a particular extension to prevent competitors from snapping it up. Sometimes, that’s all it is—hype. But if a TLD extension does take off and come close to .com in popularity, you’d hate to miss out.

The best bet is to keep an eye out for which TLD extensions are actually being used (how many .info domains you see, for example, after being available for several years now). Or if the price isn’t much more than a regular domain, it might be worth registering on a year-by-year basis to see where the extension goes.


Importance:

You need to make 

sure that you correctly 

point additional domain 

names at your website. 

There can be negative 

consequences when 

dealing with search 

engines unless you do 

it right, which involves  

creating what’s called a 

301 redirect. What this 

redirect tells search engines 

is that the website 

has permanently 

moved from one domain 

name to another. 

For detailed instructions 

try the search 

phrase.

http://www.trusstechnosofts.com

Author: G.Chandrahsekar Reddy

Have you thought of a good Domain name for your Website?

Choosing a domain name is a key step in developing your website. Aside from being part of your branding, a domain name is one of the most common ways people will find you on the Internet. That’s why a domain name needs to be memorable by matching or relating to an existing name or by simply being catchy and unique.

You cannot own a domain name. Domain registrants are given exclusive right to use a domain name for a certain period. This right is managed through regulatory agencies, such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international agency that oversees generic (noncountry) domain names such as .com or .net or .org, for periods of up to 10 years. You’ll hear of people selling their domain name, but what they’re really doing is transferring their right to use the domain for a fee.


Registering VS Owning:


You often see domains written as www.mydomain.com, but the www is not actually part of the domain name.
Increasingly you’ll see URL’s without the www but check with your host to see if your account is configured to accept either version. If it’s not and you leave off the www, your site won’t come up.

Custom Website Design – What Makes a Profitable Domain?

Choosing a domain name can determine your website’s future profitability. There are certain aspects of any domain that can help make it more profitable than you might expect. No matter what you sell on your website (product, service, or membership) you can count on selling a straightforward domain for much more than one that is not straightforward.

When you choose your domain name, go for simple to remember but relevant words. If your website sells snacks, including snack in the domain name makes it more potentially profitable. Using the word snack instead of the word food is more direct and highly recommended.

Moreover, keeping your domain name short and sweet is also advantageous. The rule of thumb is the fewer the words, the better. Three words or less is often much more easy for the general public to remember and is considered to be especially prone to being more profitable. For instance, Snacks.com it easier to remember than abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com. This is why those domains that can be crafted out of less than three words are much more concise and profitable.

Using the more common word is also another general rule of creating a solid domain name. There are some very common words that we use to describe items and then there are some not so common words. For instance, we use the word cars in place of auto in the United States. Automobile is practically unheard of in our common everyday language. Thus, using the word car in your domain name is more profitable than using the word auto, but auto is still a more profitable choice than automobile.

These very simple principles are the basics to making a domain name more profitable. It also makes it much more likely to be found via search engine entries. If a consumer can remember the basic gist of your domain name without remembering the specifics (and it is in common terms) your website is much more likely to show up when they go and search for it. Profitable and easy to locate are the tickets to creating a solid domain.

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As per your necessity, we secure you a desired domain name (pending availability). The domain will be registered in your name with your information and you will be the only registrant contact on file.

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