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Domain Name Registration
General information on registration basics, techniques and tips.
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  1. A Long Hard Look at Domain Name Valuations
    This is one of the most common questions surrounding domain names, asked on bulletin boards and in chat rooms with almost alarming regularity. The short answer is almost always: "Not as much as you think!" - but there is more to this issue than meets the eye.

    Value Drivers
    Several recent...

  2. Administrating Your Domain Name
    As the proud (or not so proud) owner of your domain name, there are a number of administrative tasks you may wish/need to perform relating to the maintenance and use of your name.

    NOTE: Since all Registrars have slightly different procedures and interfaces for carrying out administrative tas...

  3. Introduction to Expired Domains
    Ownership (or more precisely, control) of domain names is granted for a limited period of time, subject to the appropriate registration or renewal fees being paid. Once the owner of a domain name declines to pay the renewal fee to maintain their registration, that domain name will expire - that is, ...

  4. Protecting Your Domain Name
    In order to understand how to protect your domain name, you first have to focus on what constitutes domain name ownership: the ownership of a domain name is determined by the information recorded in the central Whois database under the Registrant information section of a particular domain name recor...

  5. Registering Domain Names
    What characters can I use when registering a domain name?
    You can use the characters a-z and 0-9 (in any combination). You can also use hyphens (-), although your domain name cannot start or end with a hyphen. You cannot use any other characters, nor should you use punctuation.

    Can I reg...

  6. Researching Domain Names
    There are many different ways to research domain names and to find inspiration for new domain names to register. The way you research domain names will be colored to a large extent by the intended use for the domain name i.e. is it being registered for a new or existing site, for investment purposes...

  7. The Domain Name Expiry & Deletion Cycle
    The domain expiration cycle (the process in which the domain name is expires, and then is made available for re-registration) differs significantly from registrar to registrar, so we will content ourselves with a detailed overview of the expiry/deletion process.

    Once a domain name has passed...

  8. The Domain Registrar System.
    Historically, Network Solutions was the only company authorised to register domain names. This has now changed as the domain name market has become open to competition and several dozen companies have become authorized to act as domain name registrars.

    Domain name registrars are permitted to...

  9. Tips in Registering a Domain Name
    Now that you have presumably decided on the domain name(s) you are going to register, the next step is to choose a Registrar and register the domain name. You will find a good selection of Registrars in the Domain Resources section of this site.

    While each Registrar may have slightly differe...