Follor.com - webmaster tips and tricks » domain names http://www.follor.com follo me as i take you seo, adsense, php and just general thoughts on online money making Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:49:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cheap domain name registration- dotster buy one get one free! http://www.follor.com/2009/01/cheap-domain-name-registration-dotster-buy-one-get-one-free/ http://www.follor.com/2009/01/cheap-domain-name-registration-dotster-buy-one-get-one-free/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:23:56 +0000 admin http://www.follor.com/?p=54 So ya got your brilliant new domain name picked. where to purchase it? well i came across a great offer for you to grab yourself a cheap domain name, not many domain registrars offer a buy one get one free on domain name registrations, its the first time i have heard of such an offer of buy one domain get one free! this would be excellent offer if your registering a lot of domains and you dont want copycat domains or people buying misspelled versions of your domain. This is a great offer which will allow you to buy domains online! I registered follor.com as a kind o a phonetic way of follower, i thought this would be a great name for a social network or a micro blogging service but it never turned out that way so i thought to myself, why not use this domain to create my own blog, which i have done! And i love blogging, love sharing my knowledge to others and hopefully will be able to share even more as this blog grows in popularity!

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]]> http://www.follor.com/2009/01/cheap-domain-name-registration-dotster-buy-one-get-one-free/feed/ 0 How to register a domain name http://www.follor.com/2009/01/how-to-register-a-domain-name/ http://www.follor.com/2009/01/how-to-register-a-domain-name/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:36:08 +0000 admin http://www.follor.com/?p=35 An essential part of every website is the domain, thinking of a good name to register and name your website is probably the hardest part of the process, luckily there are many domain name suggestion tools out there online. The domain name generator that i have used the most over the years is Nameboy.com and I have also had success with DomainsBot.com but since they only suggest the domain names that is all I use the website for since they tend to be more expensive than other services online. The steps in registering a domain are listed as follows.

  1. Choosing the domain name and checking availability, I use namecheap.com to register all my domains as i like their user panel and interface.
  2. The next process is registering a domain is selecting how many you want to register, if your site becomes popular, people will register similar domains to yours and try and cash in on your sites popularity. Larger sites register every domain that you could think of
  3. Next step in the process is to choose how many years you want to register the domain for, usually i only register the domain for one yar s if the site doesn’t take of i haven’t wasted any money, you can always renew the domain if does become popular
  4. When you go to pay for the domain on namecheap.com include the voucher for January 2009 “happy2009″ will entitle you to a domain at the price of $8.81
  5. Next step is to setup your hosting, you need to get the name servers for your webs host and once you have registered your domain on namecheap there is a link at the side panel to manage the name servers, you need to change these from the default namecheap servers to your own.

That should be your domain will resolve to your web host, it may take a couple of hours for the servers round the world to refresh. I will update this post with some links to cheap domain registrars when i get them

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