Domain Name Availability: A Place in the Web

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Web Hosting-SEO-Web Design )



In the early days of the dot-com explosion, anyone could create a website and choose a name or address for it without any difficulty. Back then, domain name availability was not an issue at all – getting a website address was free and easy because there were few players initially.

The name your website is called is also known as domain name – a tag for the virtual space that you occupy in the web. It is the address that you type in to go into a specific website.

STAKING YOUR CLAIM

With the phenomenal growth of the World Wide Web, there was an unexpected tussle for domain name availability. You cannot just claim a domain name; as chances are, someone already has claimed rights over it.

Nowadays checking for domain name availability is one of the most important things you have to do when you create a website. To check domain name availability, you can search domain names. There are websites that specifically cater to domain name availability – everything you need to know about domain names, from registering to buying domain names can be found in such websites.

If you are very lucky and nobody owns the domain name, then reserve it before anyone else does. Even if you do not have a website yet, reserve the domain name for future use; or register a domain name to sell if someone else likes to use it someday.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

Domain name availability has made some people very rich just because they were able to register a domain name earlier than somebody else. When that happens, the person who likes that domain name and wants to use it has to purchase the domain name from the “owner”.

Some domain names like popular words, brand names, clever and catchy phrases have a premium on the world of the web. Big companies are willing to pay top dollar just to get the domain name they want because they know that it is an investment that is worth every cent.

The World Wide Web is here to stay, and your domain is your own piece in this place.


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