A domain name is really just an alias for your IP number
address. When you sign up to put a Web site on the Internet, you are given an Internet
Protocol Number, or address. All the computers on the Internet can retrieve your site by
pulling up this IP number. A domain name will allow you to have a World Wide Web address
like www.yourname.com instead of having only a number such as 208.215.74.212.
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| Who owns the Domain Name I register? |
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You become the owner of the domain name after we register it. YOU are the Billing Contact. If anyone tries to move the domain or change
any information on the form, they will contact us first. We are listed as the
Administrative and Technical Contacts on the domain. Internic will only allow the
admin and tech contacts to change an entry.
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| How much does it cost to
own a domain name? |
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Network Solutions will charge you $35 per year.
We use Godaddy to register our sites. we charge $20 per
year. while you can register directly with them we for under $10 we may
charge a $10 dns setup service fee.
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| How long does
it take for a new Domain Name to register or move? |
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Registering a domain name can take anywhere from 1 day to 2
weeks.
Usually it is working in 48 hours or less.
Transferring a domain is a little more complicated, but takes about the same amount of
time. Let us know the domain name which is being modified, also have all information ready
before contacting your old service provider to better this process. Then we graciously ask
to have the domain transferred and hope they'll proceed in a timely manner. If you have a
good relationship with your old provider, it might help speed things up.
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| How long does it take for the world to see a new domain
name? |
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Once approved and registered with InterNIC, it can take
upwards of 2 weeks to update around the globe. So while you may be able to see it with
your Web browser, your next door neighbors might not because of the domain name server the
system uses. Most domain name servers are programmed to get domain name updates only once
a day at a predetermined time.
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| How do I choose a domain
name for my Web site? |
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You want to select a name that will be easy for your
customers or potential customers to remember. The obvious choice would be to use your
business name, such as www.theabc-company.com. But if your company is named The ABC
Company, you might want to try abbreviating the domain name for simplicity - such as
www.abc.com.
If the name you would like has already been registered by another company, you will want
to be creative and decide on a name that is associated with your company. For instance, if
The ABC Company sells letters, then you may want to try letters.com. But most
short and common names are taken. Try .org instead of .com.
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| What characters may I use
in my domain name? |
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Your domain name can be as long as
65 characters. The domain
must consist only of letters, numbers and dashes(-). The www is not part of the actual
domain name and is just a standard web prefix.
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| What if the domain name I
want is already taken? |
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If the name you would like has already been registered by
another company, you will want to be creative and decide on a name that is associated with
your company. For instance, if The ABC Company sells letters, then you may want to try
letters.com. Try .org instead of .com.
short and common names are all taken almost.
InterNIC is the agency which governs the registration of
domain names ending with .com, .net. They are now owned
by Network Solutions.
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| How many domain names may I
have? |
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You can have as many as you want to pay for
each year.
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| What extension can I have
on the end of my Domain Name? |
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InterNIC is the organization that handles the registration
and administration of "generic," non-geographic domain names.
Here is what's available now for top level domain names:
- COM - is for
commercial, for-profit organizations
- EDU - is for
4-year, degree granting institutions only
do not even try it is a manual selection process.
- NET - is for
network infrastructure machines and organizations but is open now to all
- ORG - is for
miscellaneous usually non-profit organizations but is open now to all
- INT - is for
organizations established by international treaties, or international databases
- GOV - is for
United States federal government agencies-manual entry process
- MIL - is used by
the US Military-run by the military now
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INFO, BIZ, and several others are
now available too.
There are restrictions regarding these domains which can be
found at InterNIC's home page and read more about
domain registration.
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| What do I have to do to
register my domain name? |
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You need to have a DNS server in which to put your domain
name. Always make sure that your domain name is available before trying to register
that name. You can now use the website of any register
to order and manage your names. If going through us we will handle the
registration process.
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| What is the procedure for
registering a new domain name? |
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Follow the setup process the register has
on their website
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| Whom shall I contact
regarding InterNIC billing? |
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We will bill you for any names we setup at your
request.
Questions regarding
Network Solutions Invoicing and Payment Procedures
should be referred to their website.
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| How do I read the NIC whois
record? |
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When you look at your NIC whois record, like this sample:
Bob's Web Company. (BOBSWEB-DOM)
25 Main Street, Suite 230
New York, CA 110011
US
Domain Name: BOBSWEB.COM
Administrative Contact:
Smith, Bob (SB907) dexin@BOBSWEB.COM
212-555-1155 (FAX) 212-555-2000
Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Person, Tech (TP984) tech@9NETAVE.COM
201-804-9944 (FAX) 201-804-9945
Record last updated on 06-Feb-96.
Record created on 28-Jul-95.
Database last updated on 29-May-97 04:55:39 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.9netave.com
208.215.74.2
ns3.9netave.com
208.215.74.3
The three character strings, BOBSWEB-DOM, SB907, and TP984 are called NIC handles. They
are basically key words used by NIC's whois database search software for locating
information related to them quickly.
As for the two terms, Administrative Contact and Technical Contact/Zone Contact, we will
borrow NIC's own definitions
The administrative contact is the person who can speak on behalf of the organization
listed in Section 3. This person should be able to answer non-technical questions about
the organization's plans for the name, and procedures for establishing sub-domains, and
should be able to represent the organization regarding use of the name.
The technical contact is the person who tends to the technical aspects of maintaining the
domain's name server, resolver software, and database files. This person keeps the name
server running, and interacts with technical people in other domains to solve problems
that affect the domain. The Internet Service Provider often performs this role.
Nowadays, newer whois records always have a billing contact too, which in most cases is
the same as the administrative contact, and is the one who is responsible to pay NIC for
the annual domain name maintenance fee.
Every entity registered with InterNIC has a NIC handle. You
can use the same NIC handle as contacts for several domains. This way, if you make a
change to the NIC handle (i.e., the e-mail address), all domains using that NIC handle
will be updated as well.
You may have a trademarked name in your domain name and
interNIC will register it for you. But, you might want to check if there is a company with
that name trademarked (™). Also, if a company does have that name trademarked you
could be taken to court and could loose that name.
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| Can I change my domain
name? |
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In order to change your domain name, you need to submit an
order for a new domain name. Since this is a new domain name, fees
still apply as do all other rules.
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| How do I redirect one
domain to another? |
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It is our policy to put multiple sites on one IP. You must use the
following script in the default startup page of the domain name you want to point to any
other domain name or specific page or directory within another domain name.
Script for redirect:
<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0;url=http://WWW.DOMAIN_NAME.COM/INDEX.HTM(L)">
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