How to Register a Domain Name for Your Website
So, you have finally found the Domain Name of your choice. That's good. The difficult part is over, now lets move on to register it before someone else does!
If you need help in choosing a Domain Name, see How to choose a Domain Name.
Domain Name Registrars
You may have heard about this term before. If not, it's nothing special. Domain Name Registrars are companies that administer domain names. You have to contact them when you want to buy (register) a domain name. You just pay them a fee and they register the domain name for you.
How Much Does it Cost to Register a Domain Name?
Now a days, Domain names come cheap. A brand new unregistered domain name can be bought for around 10 U.S. Dollars annually and much cheaper if you buy it in some deal with other services like hosting or email.
On the other hand, if you want to buy an already registered name, say a parked domain for example, then you will have to contact the owner and pay the price he/she demands, which can be anything from tens to hundreds to thousands of dollars!
Private Registration
When you register a domain name with a registrar, you enter details like your name, contact and email address. This information is made public for any one to view who wishes to inquire about your domain name. A simple search using Domain Tool's Whois Tool will reveal this information.
Although this may be useful if some one wishes to contact you, but this will bring a lot of spam to your inbox. So, to avoid spam, its better if your contact details are not shown. Of course, you can provide some sort of contacting method (such as a form) on your website for people to contact you.
Private Registration is a term that Domain Registrars use to hide your contact information from public viewing. Some Registrars will show this facility by the name of "whois protection". Some Registrars give this facility for free and some charge additional fee for it. So, if you want to stay away for spam or be anonymous for any reason, private registration is for you.
Domain Parking
If you have a Web Hosting plan already, you can setup the server information given to you by your web host in you Domain account. If you don't have a hosting account yet, you can leave it for the registrar to park it.
Some Domain Name Registrars
Here are some short listed Domain Registrars that you can use to buy Domain Names at lower prices.
- World's Largest Registrar - GoDaddy.com
GoDaddy is currently the largest Domain Name Registrar in the world and quite popular nowadays. The company also offers other services like Web Hosting, Personalized Email, Site Builder etc. They offer a list of Top-Level Domains, among which .COM Domain Names are 11.99 $* and .NET Domains are 9.99 $* Per Year. But, if you buy it with any other service then the Domain fee becomes 1.99 $ for the first year. They support multiple payment options including Credit Cards and Paypal.
Special Offer (Only available through this link): $7.49 .Com domains from GoDaddy.com!
*+18 ¢ ICANN fee. - Moniker.com
Moniker is one of the largest 10 Domain Name Registrars currently. Their services include Domain Names, Web Hosting and Email. They currently offer .COM Domain Names at 8.99 $ and .NET Domain Names at 7.99 $ Per Year along with many other Top-Level Domains. - Namecheap.com
Namecheap is also a good Domain Name Registrar. They also offer other services like Web Hosting and Security Certificates. They are offering .COM Domain Names for 9.98 $ + 18 ¢ per year. They are currently offering Private Registration for free. Supported payment options are Credit Cards, Google Checkout and Paypal. - 123-reg
123-Reg.co.uk is UK's largest Domain Name Registrar. Their services also include Web Hosting, Email and Website Building Software. They offer .CO.UK Domains for cheap 2.99 £ per year. Also .COM Domains are offered for a fair price of 9.99 £ per year with Free Home Page creator. Supported payment options are multiple Credit Cards.
Now act quickly, buy the Domain Name of your choice before some one else takes it!
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