How to Make Domain Names on My Own
A domain name is the main part of a website address or email address. It's a user friendly stand-in for an IP address used to identify a location on the Internet. An IP address is a one-of-a-kind numerical identifier. No two domain names are exactly alike and every domain resolves to a unique IP address. Making domain names on your own is not difficult to do. They are easy to create and easy to register, but it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of the different components of a domain name as you go about producing them.
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Brainstorm a list of original, as far as you know, "second-level" domain names. You may, for instance, want to leave "Google" or "Amazon" off of your brainstorm list because these names are not unique. The "second-level" domain name is the portion of a URL that appears immediately after the "www." host label in a Web address. In the mock URL address "www.example.com," "example" represents the second-level domain name; ".com" represents the "top-level" domain name.
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Select the "top-level domain" label most suitable for your domain name. The top-level domain says something the type of organization the domain name belongs to.
The ".com" top-level domain is traditionally used by commercial organizations; however, it's open for anyone to use. The ".biz" top-level domain, short for "business," is used exclusively by commercial organizations. The ".org" top-level domain is reserved exclusively for non-profit organizations. The ".net" top-level domain stands for "network," anyone may use it. The ".info" top-level domain stands for "information," anyone may use it. The ".edu" top-level domain is reserved exclusively for accredited educational institutions.
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Use a domain name look up tool --- see Resources --- to check the availability of each of your domain name choices. Remember, a domain name is a unique identifier. No two domain names are exactly alike. Therefore you cannot use a domain name that already exists. You cannot, for example, make a domain name called "twitter.com" because it already belongs to someone else.
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Register the domain name choice which the domain name registrar website shows is still available. After checking the availability status of a domain name with a domain name registrar, if the domain name is available you will automatically be prompted with the choice to officially register the name. You'll be charged a small fee for this registration. Fees vary depending upon which domain registrar service you use to register your domain name; at the time of this article's publication, it generally costs under $10 to register a single domain name for a year. Cheaper rate often apply when a group of domain names are registered in bulk.
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