What is the best domain name provider to purchase domain names?
Question by JessesGirl: What is the best domain name provider to purchase domain names?
Like I know of a deal for a price monthly that lets you have adwords with google, a website and 500 company emails, and maybe 1-3 domain names. IS that sound good?
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Answer by DatR
I personally use Domains at Retail ( http://www.domainsatretail.com ) to purchase all of my domain names. Almost all companies, including domains at retail give you google adwords credits as part of hosting purchasing.
What you stated sounds ok, depending on how much bandwidth and space you need for your site, and how you will be making it. If you don’t have good web knowledge you might want to try something like WebSite Tonight ( http://www.domainsatretail.com/websitetonight.html ). It lets you edit your entire web page online, so its easy and that includes hosting. Plus if you get that, you can buy a domain name for .99 for the first year.
It would cost you less than to start up for the first month, which gets you the hosting, domain name, email and an online editor so you don’t have to learn HTML coding.
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Selling Domain Names On Ebay Part Ii
Selling Domain Names On Ebay Part Ii
Analyzing eBay completed listing of domain sales for last two weeks in -00 price range.
The main difficulty is to determine if the actual sales are real, especially at the high end of the range. In fact, the very first reported sale 9 for “Google Nexus One Premier Domain Pack” (the title itself scares me away, suggesting the bad names with trademark violation) is not valid, as this “super domain pack” gets relisted with 0 price tag. However, the next “official” sale, make you realize that “Google Pack” is not that bad… How about biloud123456789.com selling for 9? You do not need to be an eBay or domainer expert to say: “ain’t real “, without wasting the time by checking out whois history data. There are many amusing sales in ebay “domain names” category. Sometimes I think that if you’re starting as a domainer, you just need to check out eBay’s completed at the high range 0+, to learn what domain names should not be bought.
Back to Earth: let’s categorize what domains names are selling, or pretending to be sold on eBay
Celebrity names: see my previous blog entry on ebay’s domain name sales
Trademark names: a lot of iPad.com sales for last two weeks on Apple news
3-4 letter names: many of not all sales records in this category can be trusted
One dictionary word names: for example RABID.net this week for 0, very rare on Ebay
Two-three dictionary word names: BillPaymentCenter.com 4
IDN Names: names containing localized non-English characters ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name for better explanation ), very rare
Really bad names, no one is going to look at, not only type in the address bar of a web browser. You can take biloud123456789.com as an example. Unfortunately, the volume of the names in this category is much higher than all other categories combined
A small comment for Trademark name lovers who are hoping to make a quick buck of well-known names: do you know what happened to forbes.ru and some Apple related domains about a month ago? No need to click on the link, just read the titles: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/forbes-gets-300000-from-cybersquatter/397561.html Forbes Gets 0,000 From Cybersquatter, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/07/AR2010010704421.html Apple Seizes 16 Domain Names From A Guy In One Fell Swoop
Do you think spending -0 on a domain name containing iPad\iPod is a good investment? Use your own judgment, but I personally would stick to generic names.
In general terms, eBay market place for domains today is a bit twisted reflection of large specific domain name markets. Yes, I believe, you can make a sale on eBay faster; more patience and additional investments (buying feature listings, appraisals, etc ) are needed when working on a sale with Sedo, AftreNic and GoDaddy auctions. The common side effect of a quick sale is that the price which you get for your domain might be much lower than you expected. If you’re ready to accept this, work with good names, do your research: keyword tools, domain history, past sales for similar names, existing in-links, Google ranking, etc. and you will do just fine with the domain sales on any market place.
Expired domains since my last posting, hope these are still available:
Establishedwebsite.com
macaroni.com
analystlabs.com
artworkdomain.com
temporaryarea.com
dealsexpert.com
sketchmaps.com
sportsecret.com
This is the one which makes me smile at first, though the name may not be as bad as it seems at the first sight: toiletdesigner.com
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Irish Domain Names
Irish Domain Names
Irish domain names – Ireland’s domain name
General overview – IEDR
The country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Ireland is .ie. This ccTLD is managed by a not for profit organization in Dublin, Ireland know as the “Irish Domain Registry” or IEDR. The IEDR is not a regulatory body and provides the service to the public and internet community. The registry is responsible for the provision of IE names and the rules relating to their registration. The IEDR implements a dispute resolution policy for domains through the WIPO and unlike other registries operates Monday to Friday during business hours.
Requirements to register
The IE domain itself is a restricted domain in that only applicants who meet certain criteria may register this name. The two main requirements are: Being based in Ireland or having a strong link to Ireland (both northern and southern Ireland). Where the applicant is not based in Ireland information showing this connection must be provided. Secondly the entity registering the domain must have a connection to the name and where this connection is not obvious, must provide evidence of this connection.
Resellers and registration process
Domains are registered through approved domain resellers and are passed to the domain registry directly for approval. The approval process is carried out by a team of people known as IEDR Hostmasters. It is their responsibility to ensure the registration requirements are adhered to. Communication is passed to the approved reseller in the case where more information is required. This thorough process of vetting has led to both positive and negative effects on the domain name’s reputation.
Positive and negative aspects to the domain
On the positive side the domain was recently voted the second safest domain in the world after the Finnish ccTLD. Generally speaking IE domains are held in high regard by Irish based internet surfers. It is seen as a mark of quality or authenticity when doing business online and as a result .ie based websites are trusted over their .com cousins. Very rarely are large spam attacks initiated through an IE domain and the rate of hacks and other internet attacks from IE hostnames is quite low.
The price of .ie domain names are higher than the average TLD or ccTLD, but this price has been significantly reduced over the past 2 years, from an average of around €65 to as low as €19 today. This is due to the traditionally large human input required to approve and manage a domain portfolio. Recently the domain registry themselves have implemented an API mechanism to fast track registration, billing and modifications of domain names. This was carried out by liaising with the reseller community to assess their needs on a day to day basis. Because of the successful implementation of this API amongst the community the price of registering IE domains has fallen with some suppliers leading the way in the price reduction.
Future of the domain
The future of the .ie is bright. New technical advancements in the API as well as the continued reduction in the Irish domain price mean the number of registrations is increasing constantly. Increased promotion of the domain brand by the domain registry and reseller community alike has also led to increased registrations.
Letshost is Ireland’s cheapest IE domain reseller and has leaded the way to cheaper registration prices across the board. More information on IE domains can be found on our IE domain registration page.
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