Since there are millions of websites that exist on the web, domain names need to be unique and memorable in order to avoid confusion and to direct traffic to the right webpage. Usually, the websites that you would see are registered domain names, and the good ones are rarely available. To avoid this dilemma, doing a domain name ownership search, or the WHOIS search, will help you in creating your own name.
The World Wide Web has an organized protocol that enforces the need to register a domain name in order to keep the system organized. This requires owners to disclose s 00004000 ome personal information that are related to the domain name they choose to register. All internet users have the right to find out who owns the site address or the domain name, and his contact details. Since domain names have to be registered, they also have to be renewed, depending on the registry conditions provided by the accredited domain name registrar. Owners have to renew their registration on or before the expiry period, or the registrar will have the right to resell the domain name to other interested parties.
In the domain name ownership search, a person can obtain the name of a domain name owner or registrant and contact information. This gives probable buyers a chance to negotiate with owners on the purchase of the domain name. It can be done through different websites of accredited domain name registrars. All you need to do is type in WHOIS search on the keyword field of a search engine to find the addresses for such websites.
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Mario says:
Is GoDaddy a good domain registrar?
I’ve heard it’s good, but has terrible Customer Service. If my domain is about to expire, will it handle this for me? Would you recommend GoDaddy? I’m thinking that maybe I should register with HostGator. Is GoDaddy only good for its speed? When the nameservers are transferred to HostGator, will HostGator handle the payments? Sorry, I’m new to this. x_x
Westward Wind says:
I’ve got all of my domains (about 20) hosted with GoDaddy and don’t have any complaints at all. Super quick with customer service, both online or via telephone, and the interface is extremely easy to navigate.
You can set your account up to automatically renew at the end of your term – which GoDaddy will automatically bill to the credit card on file so you don’t have to worry about losing any of your names.
The reason you hear a lot of complaints about GoDaddy is the same reason you hear more complaints about Wal-Mart. It’s the tallest man on the totem pole. And when that happens, there’s going to be more buzz about you, good and bad. The fact is, more people are going to report about bad experiences they had with a company than good experiences.
The most famous case against GoDaddy that you’ll hear dredged up is one from 2006 where the owner of FamilyAlbum.com entered incorrect information into his domain when he was registering it (as someone has already pointed out here, that’s a standard practice of many people setting up illegal websites). It’s against ICANN compliance to do that, so GoDaddy attempted to contact him via email for two months, to no avail, after which they shut off the domain and put it up for sale again. Suddenly the guy came forward playing victim and blamed GoDaddy for the entire thing and accused them of ‘stealing’ his domain to sell it to another customer for a higher profit (which turned out to be a whopping $18 for a backorder). GoDaddy eventually settled the entire incident with both the new owner and the dufus that originally entered his information incorrectly – and gave him his domain back. But even then, they went above and beyond to make sure both customers were happy.
violetkites says:
Registrar for domain name + web hosting services?
Trying to decide between getting my domain name registered separately from my hosting site versus just doing it all at the web hosting service. It shouldn’t matter if I am sticking to the reputable big companies right?
I was going to get my domain name (the .net and .com versions) registered on namecheap, 1and1 (other suggestions welcome) separately from host (probably hostgator or justhost because I liked that they had a lot of video tutorials).
I do need several email accounts for my employees with webmail access. An easy to use site builder is also good, but I will use Joomla in the future.
Also a good price on whois privacy and renewals (registrar and hosting).
What do you recommend?
Lion King says:
It’s true that sticking with reputable companies makes the situation better but that’s definitely not the best situation if you have got the choice. You should have your domain names registered from a separate domain registrar for 2 reasons:
1. If at any time in the future you decide to leave your web host (for whatever reason) and move to a new one, then you’ll probably end up transferring each of your domain names to your new web host as well. Whereas if you had them with a separate registrar, you’d just have to move your files to a new web host and make your domain name point to your new host and things would be fine. Domain management is in itself doesn’t involve a lot of problems so there is very little chance that you’d want to transfer your domain names if you registered them separately.
2. Usually (in every case I have seen at least) domains sold by web hosts cost a lot more. For e.g. it is very common to come across a price like $10 per year + domain privacy would usually be separate and you’d end up paying around $10 for that as well. So totally you might pay $20 or above if you went with web hosts.
For domain registrars, I’d say netfirms.com is the best. They give you the domain name plus privacy (free) for $8 the first year and $12 (privacy remains free) for subsequent renewals. That’s the cheapest I’ve seen and they are reputed + give very good service (experience). I’d say namecheap would come second in my opinion. They are pretty good too.
Several email accounts would not be a problem with most hosts. While a sitebuilder might be an easy way to put your site up fast (because of all the templates etc), using a content management system like Joomla would be better any idea because of all the flexibility that you’d have with Joomla (not to mention the scores of plugins you have for it). Again, Joomla would be supported by most, if not all hosts.
For the hosting I’d say hostgator fares much much better than justhost (but that’s my opinion). They give you unlimited emails, a site builder and of course you could install Joomla on their hosting packages. No spammy upsells, great service and a customer support that listens to what you have to say. You are right, they’ve got tons of video tutorials that handles most of the situations you (or your employees could need assistance with). What’s more important is Hostgator has different types of hosting like shared, VPS and dedicated hosting, so in future if by any chance you want to be able to upgrade your hosting, its much simpler. JH only has shared hosting. If you decide to go for the yearly plans for gator, you could save a lot more than their advertised prices by using the coupons: ‘HOSTGATOR25OFFER’ gives you 25% off on your hosting cost, so you could end up saving $30-$70 using this coupon based on how many years you go for. If you want to go for a monthly payment, then you could get your first month for 1 cent by using ‘MONTH1FREE’ coupon.
Hope that helps. If you feel this answer was more useful than others (and saved you some money
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