Why do people always have to pay to get their own domain name?
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Technically you never own your own domain...it is really a Lease and you are simply paying a rent for the ability and use of that domain name. Why do you have to pay? Because some one has to cover the cost of administration and convenience of domain name registration. Why do you need to register? So that only one entity has a domain name and no one else can use it. If you are looking for an inexpensive way to own a domain name go check out godaddy (the link below.
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You can use a third party such as register.com. I don't know what sort of fees they collect but it may be free when use them to reregister that domain name.\n\nSearch for the domain name and look into the "Make an offer" option.
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There is an organization who control the domain name. Anyone selling domains must be authorized to do so by this organization. Others may sell domain names through the company associated and authorized by ...\n\nhttp://www.icann.org/\n\nYou can also check out a list of these comapnies (aka registrars) here...\nhttp://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html\n\nMany resellers of domain names keep everything over the wholesale rate. Yahoo has the cheapest rate now. I beleive its like 2.99 at\nhttp://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=PASSPORTPLUS\n\nHope this answers you question
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What do you mean with "real website"? a "dot com" domino?\nNo, there isn't. Only subordinated sites as geocities, yahoo, msn and others offer us free spaces to do it.\nActually you don't need pay to have your own website, you have to pay to have your own domino (like mypage.ownsite.me) registered in DNS databases.
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Register.com is a government endowed monopoly. Yahoo may host your domain name just like any other service provider, but you can't get away from monopoly control it you want to keep your own domain name. Sad but true. But if register.com is your service provider, you can switch easily. You will still have to pay fro your domain name at one place, pay for you isp at another place. There are only a few monopolies controling registration, you might be able to re-register with one of the other 3 or 4 companies allowed by government.
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No its not free. They is a fee to pay the State in which its established, check with the Division of Corporations of your State. In Florida the website for these things is very good. You can probably in your state too, go online and seach if someone is already using the name... also you may want to register a logo or color/design scheme, etc... I like the idea of registering a .com with that exact name. Thats what I did with my business you may want to form an INC. or LLC or other protective sheild in the event that you screw someone up and they sue you... I guess that would help keep your liability lower or something. Best to check with a Patent, Trademark Lawyer and have it done by a pro. You don't want someone (like me) snagging your name and making things harder for you to be unique in your industry. I have had others tag onto my business names by little thing like adding an "S" or reversing the words, etc... The way I see it... I'm ALWAYS on the first page of modt search engines for the keywords that I want searched, if not TOP first on the list, Im always on the first page.
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It is not an impossibility. Anything happens on the net.\n\nIn practice, well, there are people who will give you a domain name as long you host with them for a fee. And, of course, you can go on renewing your domain name once in 1 to 5 years. \n\nThe website dot.tk offers you a free domain forever with certain conditions, and without nameservers.\n\nBy the way my domain is registered with godaddy.com, but i won't recommend them. they have a clumsy, sluggish and customer-hostile site and staff.
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Creating a website has got the following elements\n\nDomain name: This is the address that any person has to enter in browser to reach your website. if you want your site name only followed by .com or .net or .org etc(like yourname.com or yourcompanyname.org) you will have to register the domain name from an accredited registrar like http://www.godaddy.com . This will cost around $10 for 1 year registration and it varies depending on the registrar. If you don't want to spend on domain, then there are free subdomain providers like http://netfirms.com , http://50webs.com , which can give you website addresses like http://yourname.50webs.com or http://yourname.netfirms.com . Usually these free subdomain providers also provide free web space also\n\nWeb space : Having a domain name is only first part and you need some webspace in some webserver, where you will actually upload the files of your website. As I mentioned free subdomain providers usually give free webspace assosiated with the subdomain they provide. But in the case of registering your own domain, then you may have to purchase webspace from a webhosting provider. After purchasing webspace you have to link your webspace with domain from the control panel provided by your domain registrar. Most domain registrar like http://www.godaddy.com has also provide hosting packages also.\n\nWeb pages designing: This is the actual designing of the files that will be put in your webspace. Either you can learn html to create web pages or use programs like microsoft frontpage to design the html pages. After you create the webpages of your site in your computer, you have to upload them to the webspace using an FTP program. Your webspace provider will be giving you the ftp address, user name and password for doing ftp to your webspace.
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If it is your business name, you may be able to dispute their registration, as it seems to be in bad faith. If it is your personal name, don't bother - the domain is worthless, just come up with something daft at random.\n\nBe careful how you proceed, as your actions can affect your chances at domain arbitration.
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web hosting and domain names are completely different, you can register your own domain for $5 if you want to, then you need hosting, just search yahoo for web hosting and find a cheap plan.
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If you have already designed your page, you're almost there.  HOSTING is when you pay to use space on someone's computer.  They have a server that they sell space on.  You pay them - upload your files to their server and it's accessed from the internet.\n\nDomain name is your '.com'.  You typically 'buy' that name from a company you find and typically it's good for a specific period of time - at which time you 'renew' your name.\n\nYou need 'both' of these things to really get a site running.  I have used 'free' hosting but usually it has to contain a lot of ads.  I choose to pay for my domain name and site name.  Many times, the HOSTING people will provide you some software so you can 'upload' your page to their server.  Just ask them ahead of time..... Can get pretty sophisticated.  Many people that do this will be happy to help you get your stuff on their server.
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Look for a feature called "Domain Name Parking" which is offered by several registrars for less than a full-blown registration that is linked to a live website.\n\nNote to that this practice, often called "Domain Name Squatting" has a bad reputation and is generally frowned upon.\n\nAlso, registering a domain name that involves a patent or registered trade name or other corporate entity and then trying to sell it to them might just get you involved in a lawsuit.\n\nNot that that's what you've got in mind. I'm just trying to cover most of the angles for all readers. ;)
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One of the more popular ways to set up a domain (web site name) of your choice is GoDaddy... but there are lots of services that will do it for you.\n\nYou can do a free search at www.whois.com to see if a domain is free.  If it's free, you'll need to contact a provider about it.
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One of the problems with free sites is that they have to pay for themselves somehow and this is usually by advertising.\n\nThe last thing your business needs is to have a site with adverts for other products displayed on it.\n\nAnother problem of free sites is that there;s usually limits to the amount of content you can upload (limited webspace) and the amount of content that can be downloaded to visitors (bandwidth).\n\nAnother thing you don't want is for visitors to your site to see error messages or getting told to come back later.\n\nYou can get free sites from the likes of Tripod / Lycos - http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ or Yahoo / Geocities http://geocities.yahoo.com/\n\nAnother problem with free sites is that you're not going to get your own domain name so instead of xyx-company.com you'll end up with something like geocities.com/xyx-company and without your own domain name you're going to end up with e-mail addresses such as xyz-company@hotmail.com.\n\nYet another problem with free sites is that you're limited when it comes to the types of files you can upload - a lot won't support music or videos.  You'll also find there may be restrictions on running scripts, psp, mysql etc etc\n\nAnd yet another problem is that there's unlikely to be much in the way of technical support.  \n\nPage ranking is also going to be restricted if you're on a free site.  One of the most important factors when it comes to page ranking is the domain name itself, the page name and the title tag.  For example, if you search for "Othello by Shakespeare" in a search engine it's going to prioritise a page at shakespeare.com./othello far more than one at tripod.com/shakespeare/othello.\n\nMy recommendation would be to go for a paid service - it needn't cost much.  geocities offer one from under $5 a month and Yahoo's Small Business Webhosting Starter is only $11.95 a month which includes domain name, 24 hour support, plenty of webspace and decent downlaod limits etc etc.\n\n------------------------------\n\nYou don't need much in the way of web design knowledge to make a decent website.  Office 2003 includes Front Page which is the 'industry standard' programme for website design.  In many ways it's similar to MS Word so if you're familiar with Word the transition won't be too difficult.\n\nYou can actually use Word to create webpages (when saving choose Save As > Save As Type > Webpage) but it's not as flexible as Frontpage.\n\nWhen you craete webpages you can save them locally on your own hard-drive so have an experiment doing that and when you've got a half decent site upload it.\n\nAll the best and good luck.
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Yahoo can register your domain name ... I think they have a great deal for like $2.99 a year right now .... you can keep it for as long as you keep paying to keep it yours ... Network Solutions has a "lifetime" deal which holds the domain name for 100 years .... if you live that long
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If you already have the website, all you need is a host and domain name (You can usually register the domain when you order your hosting agrrement). Otherwise you can find someone else to make the website for you, but that's usually very expensive.
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The hosting company serves and stores your webpages so that people can see if when they access your URL. There are a lot of options out there to choose from. You can ge it for as cheap as 5 dollars a month. You can choose if you want your own domain, so it would be something custom like joesmoeswebsite.com or you can sign up with something free like GeoCities.