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GoDaddy.com
One of the least expensive service on the web. They try to sell you lots of other stuff as you pay for the name.

ISPcheck, a "one-stop marketplace" for Internet Services, claims to offer the best deals on web hosting, domain registration. They list a number of smaller registration services, many of which are really inexpensive.

E-domainia.com - Domain Registration And Hosting Solutions
$4. 95 for a domain name. Bulk domain registration. Hosting plans starting from $3. 95 per month. Free domain parking and locking. Site builder, ssl certificates, automated, easy-to-use management interface. 24/7 live support.

1&1 ? A UK company with very reasonable prices.

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Australian domain names and hosting service.

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Your domain name (for example,"www.mystore.com") must be 32 letters or less, including the extension, which is the part following the dot. The most popular extensions are .com for commercial sites and .org for nonprofit sites. Many of the most appealing .com and .org names have been taken already. Consider these alternatives:

.biz .coop

.info .museum

.edu .pro

Of course, if you are in a country other than the USA, you can take that country's extension, for example, .ca for Canada. The nice thing about many country registrations, Canada for example, is that they demand proof that you're legally entitled to the name (for example, incorporation papers for "The Ajax Corp" if you're trying to register ajax.ca). That protects your right to an appropriate URL for your company.

If someone else is registering the name for you, make sure you are listed as the owner of your domain. Otherwise, if you choose to change your host or developer, you will be unable to access your record in order to change relevant information.

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In addition, each country has its own extension. For example, the United States is .us and Canada is .ca Here's the full list of country domain extensions

Some ready-made packages are offered by domain registration companies, so registration is part of the deal. Other companies offering packages will help you with the process of registering.

If you're creating your own pages, you'll need to do your own registration. The oldest company in the business is Network Solutions. They're quite reputable. Also expensive. There are other companies that will register your domain name for about $9 a year.

The process is simple. You fill in the name you want and click the button. They will tell you whether the name is available, or suggest others. Once you have a name that's not taken, you purchase it just as you would on any ecommerce site. (If you've never made an online purchase, you may want to consider using a professional web design company.)

Of course, if you are setting up on GeoCities or something like it (see Site Types), your address will be www.geocities.com/ThisIsThePartYouCanChange. Here, www.geocities.com is the domain name.

If you really don't find a name you like that's available, there are people who specializing in buying up domain names for resale. For example, dating-singles-personals has hundreds of names snapped up for resale to people who want to open a dating site.

An important question is: what shall I name my site? Did Google originally try to register "search-engine.com"? Would they have been more successful if they had? For more, read on.

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