Domain Names Articles

Internet » Domain Names | By Jacque Crook @ Monday, 30th August 2010 @ 9:33 PM

Every machine on the internet is assigned an identifying number called an IP address. Any time you access the information on the internet, your computer is pulling information from another machine. IP addresses look something like this: 216.29.61.136. To make it easier for people to remember the location of a website, IP addresses are matched with domain names. It's much easier to remember a name like www.yahoo.com than it is to remember a series of 10 numbers. Without designate... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Cynthia Minnaar @ Friday, 13th August 2010 @ 4:44 PM

Here we discuss two ways to choose a domain name for your website. Registering your own domain is the best thing you can do for your online business, because that is the only way you will have total control over it. Trading in domain names has become a serious business in its own right because they are products that carry a certain market value. Many people buy and sell domain names on domain auction sites and prices vary from very cheap to extremely expensive all depending on the keywor... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Monday, 26th July 2010 @ 6:10 PM

An Italian Windows website got its hand on a super secret and highly confidential power point presentation by Microsoft. The power point presentation revealed Microsoft's plans and some features of the Windows 8, which the company is planning to build. Microsoft is now inclined towards making a Windows version with some good features for which the customers would really want to pay. The Windows 7 will be the successor of the Windows 8. Microsoft's internal plans indicate that th... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Monday, 26th July 2010 @ 5:33 PM

A permalink or a permanent link, refers to the URL of an individual blog post. A permalink never changes, and hence, the name. The unchangeable nature of a permalink makes it less prone to link rot. Permalinks are used to link your story in an email, and are used by other bloggers to link your blog or a section of your blog. Another important use of permalinks is the information they provide to the users regarding other posts in the same category. Since people keep adding fresh content to... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Monday, 26th July 2010 @ 5:31 PM

Sub-domain makes your URLs shorter and nicer. It allows you to categorize content of your website. They also help in search engine rankings because they are treated as separate website address by the search engines. However, you should consider few things before settling for sub-domains for your website. A sub-domain can be used to suggest important subdivisions of your website, such as, functions, services and departments. For example, universities can use sub-domains for major divisions... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Monday, 19th July 2010 @ 4:32 PM

Domain names with a .xxx suffix at the end (where.net,.com,.co.UK usually goes) has recently passed as a legal domain name. A British entrepreneur expects to make $200 million from registering out the domain names to pornography sites around the globe. The man plans to hire out each domain name for $60 a go. People for Internet porn and against it are happy with the new domain suffix. Those against it want to be able to block it totally from their view which is simple by just blocking the... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Monday, 19th July 2010 @ 4:04 PM

China has controversially given Google back their license back to operate in the region under the "Google.cn" domain name. This comes just months after a rift between them that saw Google remove operations entirely from China after strict government censoring was ruining their search results and they would no longer accept this. If you had searched for example "Tiananmen square" in Google's Chinese search before March, you would get nothing to do with what you were looking f... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Wednesday, 14th July 2010 @ 8:17 PM

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a web server and the client computer. They track all traffic existing between the internet and the intranet. These servers can perform all-important functions such as tracking IP addresses, URLs, time and date of access, and number of bytes downloaded. All of this information can be very essential when analyzing any kind of attack against a network. With the help of proxy servers, Intranet administrators can establish better access and provid... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By Melissa Smich @ Wednesday, 14th July 2010 @ 8:17 PM

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the Internet Protocol (IP) is an underlying factor for everything that you can do on the Internet. The IP helps you to reach the requested web destination. While, the above protocols help you to arrive at the right destination, several bugs have been implemented in the way of TCP/IP and in the application software to which it carries t the data. This implies that there is always risk of virus or hackers attack whenever you go online. Hackers are ... more...

Internet » Domain Names | By David Cassell @ Wednesday, 14th July 2010 @ 8:56 AM

Selling domain names can be a very profitable business. There is the potential of registering a domain for $10 and selling it for $1000 or more. No where on the planet will you find that return on investment. Not the stock market nor the forex market. Some people buy domains for $10 an try to make a quick sale for say $100 or more. This is called flipping. Other domaining investors would buy names and develop them into fully blown websites. They then sell those websites late... more...