February 16, 2012

How to register a domain name?

OK. Then, you want a domain name of your own.
Let me help you on this. Hope, you know what a domain name is. Simply speaking, domain name is a web address. A web page is one of the pages of a website. Every website has an address of its own. That address is called a domain name. It is actually a human readable word which can be interpreted to machine language.

There are domain name registrars through which you can register your own domain name. Any individual can
register a domain name of his/her choice. The only condition is that, the name he/she chosen should be available. So, first you should check the availability of your desired domain name.

There are domain name registrars / their re-sellers who sells domain name to its clients. One can become their client by simply registering on their website. Once you completed the simple registration process, you can search and buy your desired domain name. For searching only, there is no need of registration. The registration is required when you buy a domain name.

On purchase of domain names through a registrar, you will get a control panel for managing your domain and other free services associated with that domain. They may provide free E-mail IDs with the domain in the format of you@yourdomain.com. You can add more E-mail IDs if you purchase a hosting account.

Privacy protection is a useful feature through which you can hide your contact details from the whois database. However, in some TDLs, privacy protection is not allowed by the authorities. The another feature Vivid Infoways providing is Theft Protection. That is, Your domain name cannot be transferred to any other person or entity by theft.

To register through Vivid Infoways, just go to their website and search for the domain name availability, if the domain is not available, the website itself will give you some domain name suggestions which you can consider. You can continue with a 'website suggested' domain or make a new search with another name. Once the domain name is available, add it to the cart to proceed to the next step. The website will show you a page in which you can register your details.  Accept the terms and conditions and click register. It may show some more product to purchase, if you want, you can continue with the shopping or can be skip this step by clicking No Thanks or Check Out. Click on 'Yes. Protect my privacy' to use the privacy protect feature and proceed to check out. Make payments and you will get your domain registered in your name within minutes.

Remember that it may take up to 48 hours to get your domain live on web in connection with your hosting.

Purchased domain name? Help your friends to do so if they want by suggesting them to read this post.

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