The Mystery behind Domain Names

There are approximately 68 million .COM domains registered. That’s a  lot of domain names out on the Internet that are either already taken or  just parked in some obsolete spot gathering dust and all kinds of age.  The most common names like loser.com. Jamesbrown.com are already taken  by net investors who resell the rights to the names. Can you imagine  someone having www.elvis.com ? He’s just waiting on the highest bidder!
There  are 900 possible combinations for two letter sequences.  If you’re  looking for “ET” then you just won’t find it!  Even allowing for digits,  again every single web address is taken. Of course, that's ignoring the  fact that .COM registrars now mandate a 3-character minimum length, so  it wouldn't be an option.

Many of the three-letter  sequences are taken. Adding digits to a domain name creates a number of  garbage domain entries. If you're dying to acquire great domains and  unique domain names, they'll free up sometimes only to be auctioned off  through unique domain name sales.

The longer the  domain name that you choose, the more that the possibilities are that it  could be available presuming that you're willing to accept an arbitrary  sequence of letters and/or digits. For example, most organizations have  4 letter acronyms (WQAM.com and AFTA.org so you may have a chance using  over 4 letters to get the domain name that you want in acronym style!

Of  course many of the registered domains are ever, visited, with a huge  percentage having nothing more than a “parked page” (users pay domain  registrars to put up ads for themselves on these type of parked pages).  There are so many combinations and back door tricks to domain name  cataloging and classification until the possibilities are endless.

The  rule is to obtain a domain name that closely resembles who you are  about which gives you and identity and brand on the internet.

Picking a Type of Web Hosting Service

There are various types of web hosting services and it all depends on what you want to accomplish in building your web-site for your business. You should look at the different options which depend on these following factors:

Complexity of your web-site – You may want to talk to a developer on the complexity of your web-site, especially when it comes to graphics and database administration. You may have to consult with an internet specialist on the type of hosting that you need.

Some web hosting services are provided for free but you have to put up with ads that are on the top or bottom of your web site and those ads might not be conducive to the web site that you have developed. If you are going to get a site with ads, then get a free web hosting package that matches with the online ad that’s already there.

Free hosting also has low bandwidth on the internet because of so many people using the free service instead of the paid service. Basically, you also get a free web email account with free hosting services.

Then there is hosting that you pay for that you have more control over when you load and host your web site. You get POP mail access and can create as many emails as you want to which depends on the type of account that you pay for.

Every company has special packages for each and every need. From personal to business servers, even servers for special kinds of operating systems (UNIX, Windows, Linux and Apple) the choices vary depending on what you want to do.

The prices depend on how much space you need on the server to load your applications so you have to take into consideration what you want to put on the server through your web-site.

Using Free Hosting Services

Free web hosting is the most basic web hosting service that you can obtain and there are many free hosting companies that are available on the internet. Free hosting services are usually financed by advertisements on web sites that are hosted.

Free web hosting services are extremely limited. If you get a free hosting service you will have ads on the top and the bottom of your web-site and depending on what your web-site is all about, it may not fit at all but for people starting out on the internet it may be the best option if you don’t have a lot of traffic or just a small site.

The type of web domain that you receive when you get a free web hosting is a subdomain with the name that you pick (yourname.webhost.com) or a name in a directory (yourname.webhost.com). For example, if the name of your free host is freestanding.com,
Then your web domain would be yourbusiness.freestanding.com.

As stated before, if you are a novice, this is the type of account that you would probably want to get but there are some shortcomings to free web hosting if you are looking for more options on the account.

First, many free hosting accounts do not support database management or what you would call in simple terms, putting data structures on the free web host side of their server. Databases are usually used for online data retrieval routines. Many of these free web hosting sites do not support a common package called mySQL which allows you to program queries into your web sites.

They also don’t support multiple e-mail accounts. Most free web hosting service only gives you one email account and it’s usually a web based internet account. The host does not include modules for Flash Programming, PHP and Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHMTL).

In summary, free web hosting is for novices who want an easy hosting option without many bells and whistles.

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