One of my customers received a call from GoDaddy recently.  They wanted her to sign up for private domain name registration.  My client had one question.  “What the heck is private registration?” Let’s look at “regular” registration first.  It’s an organized system where people get exclusive use of domain names for a period of time.  [...]

I’ve often written about the importance of renewing domain names.  Domain names are registered by the website owner and there’s an annual registration fee.  Once that fee runs out, then another party can register that name. The subject came up recently in the news. Brian McCrary was a disgruntled man.  He’s been caught speeding by [...]

If you’re thinking about putting up a website one of the first decisions you’ll have to make is what domain name to pick.  Ideally you’d want a domain name that has all of the following qualities: Easy to Remember Make sure that people can remember your domain name.  You want them to be able to [...]

Right now I have 5 websites.   However I have plans for websites six and seven.  I don’t have the time to work on them right now but I do have the domain names registered.  That way I know that when I’m ready to work on the sites I’ll have the perfect domain name. What [...]

Do you have a great idea for a domain name but aren’t quite ready to launch a new site yet? Then head on over to HostMySite.com to take advantage of their domain name sale. (The domain name sale it at the bottom of the page.) Through the end of the month you can register a [...]

When I help customers set up a website I always have them register the domain name themselves. “This is your website,” I explain. “If I win the lotto and move to an estate in England I want you to have access to your domain name.” It looks as though the Wall Street Journal agrees with [...]

One of my customers recently received an invoice for domain name registration. She knows that domain name registration is important and that the result of waiting too long can be disastrous. Yet, something didn’t seem right to her. The price seemed high and the company asking for the money, let’s call them Scamo Incorporated, didn’t [...]

Some of my customers have contacted me recently about odd emails that they’ve received.  The emails start out like this:  To comply with the ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) WHOIS policy, we request that you confirm the accuracy of your WHOIS contact information. WHOIS is a publicly accessed database containing contact [...]

I was reminding another customer about renewing their domain name yesterday.  This brought up the question of how much is a domain name worth on the open market. Domain names are assets just like a car or a piece of property.  While domain names are reserved or “rented” for a period of time people do [...]

It happened again yesterday.  A client sent me an email asking if I had any idea what had happened to her website.  I took a look and discovered that her domain name had expired.  As I explained in yesterday’s blog, domain names are unique names or address for websites.  These names are all registered to [...]