By: Alexandra Chaille

Alexandra Chaille — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:04:42 +0000

Here is some domain registration info that you will want to keep in mind when purchasing a domain.First of all, a domain is just an easier way of remembering an IP address.?Every site on the net is just an address like 127.0.0.1.?But, nobody is going to remember that, so instead, we have DNS servers out there that do the handy job of letting us type in a catchy name and it will find the address associated with that name and send us there.?How well do you think commercials would work if Dan’s Furniture Hut came on the tube and said, “Check out our stock at h t t p://127.0.0.1, that’s h t t p ://127.0.0.1 folks!?Check it out today!”??Not very practical is it??So, you go to your favorite registration company and register a domain.?Now, here is the important part.?Make sure wherever you register your domain, that they aren’t going to require you to host your site with them.?Sometimes these registration companies will advertise really low registration fees or even free, but then you find out that your hosting is going to be $30 a month!?Nuts to that!?I may pay $10 to register a domain, but that is for a year and I can host it anywhere I want.?There are some really great places out there to host your sites for you that are pretty darn cheap, so be careful and don’t get sucked in to a bad deal.Also, you may want to make sure that wherever you get your domain, they have a good control panel that is fairly easy to use.?It doesn’t have to be perfect, if you host your site somewhere else, about the only time you will use this control panel is when you first point the domain to your hosting account, and maybe when you renew your registration.?But it does have to be used, so make sure it isn’t just so complicated that you are spending hours on the phone with customer service trying to get what you need done.

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By: Alexandra Chaille