What A Newbie Webmaster Should Know About
Domain Registration
By Dana Goldberg
Domain Name Registration
Affordable domain name registration was extremely difficult to be
found in the past. In fact, all domain name registrars used to charge
a flat fee of $70 which was to register your domain name for two years.
Now there has been an explosion of companies that offer affordable
domain name registration. Some will register your domain name for less
than $15 a year, especially if you are registering multiple sites for
a number of years at the same time. Be aware that you may have to have
a number of variations of your ideal site name as you often find that
the more popular terms have already been registered or reserved for
future use.
If you are serious about your online presence then it is essential
to consider a bulk domain name registration. The most obvious benefit
of having a bulk domain name registration is that your site will appear
higher on the search engines. That may be incentive enough but registering
as a .net, .biz, http://.co.uk, .la or other domain names too has a
far greater benefit which many people do not think about.
A major benefit of having a bulk domain name registration for your
site is to prevent the more unscrupulous cyber sitters from piggybacking
on the success of your website. Imagine if you could register as a
google.au and benefit from the millions of people who use a Google
site every day? You see how this could work to someone’s advantage
if Google hadn’t performed a bulk domain name registration to
prevent this. The extra cost to have a bulk domain name registration
can be minimal and there are a number of web domain registrars who
offer bulk discounts to their customers.
Wholesale domain name registration is an increasingly popular way for
webmasters to register multiple domain names at the same time at a
fraction of their individual costs combined. A new marketing technique
has been sweeping the World Wide Web recently where webmasters create
hundreds of websites with only a small amount of text to attract visitors
by keyword searches and wholesale domain name registration has led
to this process being simplified.
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About the author
D. Goldberg is webmaster of Webhosting
Specialists. Find out everything about web hosting and domain registration.
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