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III. Checking and Registering Your Domain Name

Your next step is to register your domain name. If you have a name server to post it to, you are ready to register your site on your own. (If you don't and you plan to do this yourself, go to Granite Canyon for a free public host name server.

Choose your owner/contact name carefully. Also make sure that you own your own name if you go through an outside service. Your technical administrative contact name should be someone related to your domain name server. Your domain name contact person is either you or the representative agent doing the work for you. You can register yourself at Internic . The process takes a couple of days. You can pay via credit card, check, or bill. You can choose from a variety of different end names. ".com" is the most common. This is a company mark. The other popular names are ".net" for network, ".org" for organization, and "gov" for government. You can use "us" for United States. If you are registering in a different country, they will have a different suffix. (For example, Germany is de.) Please see your registration agent for the suffixes they support. Register provides a very FAQ walk through of the process if your are interested in more information on this.

First, for some background information about domain names, see the following places:

1. INTER NIC
2. Reign Your Domain gives you domain name advice
3. Domain Watch provides stats and reports on domain name activity.
4. Domain Games provides domain name information , recently dropped names activity and dispute resolution information
5. About Domains provides information about domain names

The following places will check your name for free:

1. Register
2. Your Name Free
3. Canadian Net for Canadian registration
4. Dot.com
5. Domain Watch
6. Domain Games
7. Affinity Host will check your name and suggest alternatives for free

The following places will register your domain name for you:

1. Internic.Net Want to do it yourself? Go here and have your domain name server id handy.
2. Web Jump will register and host 25 mbs for free in exchange for banner at top of site.
3. Virtual Avenue offers registatration and hosting of 20 mb for free in exchange for banner at top of site.
4. Register offers free registration services to U.S. domain names, New Zealand, Great Britian and others. You only pay the actual fees. They offer a nice chart of the fees for the actual registration per area. They will host your name on their server until you are ready to use it and provide an under construction page to cover until you bring the actual site up. They can also re-direct your web site, if you already have a site but are changing the name.
5. Affinity Hosting allows you to register your name and "park" it there for free. They offer email forwarding for $20.00 and URL forwarding for $25.00.
6. Your Name Free will also register your site for free. They offer email forwarding and website forwarding for $49.00.
7. TabNet will register your name, issue you a free email address and give you a free business card web site for $50.00
8. TradeName will also register your name for $50.00 . They also provide trademark services.

Now you have incorporated your company, trademark protected your name, and registered your domain name with internic. You are ready to move onto Design Your Meta Tags and Site submission Techniques .