Choosing Your Website Address and Domain RegistrationAn important consideration in building an effective website, is its address, or URL. Consider these three possible URLs for a website selling donuts: clearwatersbestdonuts.com Which is the best? The second, clearwaterdonuts.com, is easiest to remember and spell correctly. Once it is chosen, you then have to register it. Domain registration reserves your site name (such as “www.mydomain.com”) and informs computers world-wide where to find your site. Registration is done through one of several “Internet Registrars.” We use “000domains.com,” an inexpensive and long-established company which is licensed directly by ICANN (the international organization that runs the whole domain operation of the Internet). You pay a yearly fee of $13.50 for domain registration -- that goes directly to “000domains”. If you give us credit card info, we will take care of setting this up for you. In registering your site, we are usually listed as the “administrative” and “technical” contacts; you are listed as the “owner” and “billing” contact. You’ll receive notification by e-mail and we will too, so we can make sure this doesn’t lapse. You will also have your own log-on which enables you to make changes in the domain registration if you need to (which can include taking access away from us). Please call if you have any questions about this. |
