Domain Name Help

There are many things you must know about domain name and its management. There are many thing you can do with your domain, just buying a domain and having a hosting account is not everything to run your website properly you need to know a little more about your domain and how it works, even about selling a domain and buying a already registered domain name.

Registering a domain name for your business is nothing but buying a web name for your business. For registering a domain name your have find if your desired domain name is available or somebody already has registered it. Domain name is very import for any website so even if you are not thinking to have a website but running a business you must register or buy your domain name to secure your business identity.

It is very import to register a good keyword friendly domain name for your website/web presence. Domain name is the top level keywords of your website what is considered by every search engine and have first position with some important and relevant keyword is a plus point with your website to get good traffic/visitors. Today everyone goes to google.com/yahoo.com to find anything they need so good domain name is important. To register a domain name you need to find if the name you are thinking of is available or not.

To register a domain name you need to check availability by entering your desired domain name in the form Check Domain availability>> http://www.indianetcraft.com/domain_registration.html. To check availability just enter the desired domain name without extension and select domain extension from check box. Do not enter “http://” or “www.” In the domain name space as they are not part of domain, they are just protocol. Domain name only contain letters, numbers and hyphen (“-“). But remember domain name must not begin or end with hyphen. Your domain name must be up to 63 characters long excluding the characters of domain extension or the characters used to identify the top level domain (.COM, .NET, .ORG). If your domain name is available for registration just follow the instruction to complete order and make payment, your domain will be registered within 24 hr after we receive your payment. Now you have a domain name for your website/business. Now you can host your domain name with any web hosting service provider or with us.

Only registering a domain name is not running your website, it will not appear automatically if someone type your domain name in the address bar of their browser. After registering domain name you need to upload your website site to a computer that hosts your site by assigning IP number of the web server to your domain. This IP address and your domain name are associated together and stored in a database; when-ever anyone from any-where in the world with internet access type your domain name in their browser in the address/URL field and click enter will be directed to your website IP address/web server where you have hosted your web site. This is the way every one find your website on the net. The domain name is important as it is much easier to remember a name than a number for any one. To associate your domain name with your web server/web host/IP address is very easy, you just need to change your domains ns record or name server with the name server provided by your web host.

To change nameserver of your domain you need to login to your domain control panel then go to my domains and click on control and change your domain nameservers. Get your name server from your web hosting company.

A domain name extension is the generic value at the last of your domain name for example “.com, .org, .net, .info, .in, .co.in etc” .com is the top commercial domain name. It is better to have a .com domain name than any other even all the extension are of the same value to the search engine but with .gov, .edu etc are a little more valuable.

A domain registrant is the owner of the domain. When you register a domain name you have to give full information of the domain registrant which is saved into the database of the domain. You must avoid domain registration where you don’t get full control over your domain. With Net Craft India you will get domain control panel with all controls, you can change nameserver, domain registrant name online and live.

Domain privacy is a service provided by your domain registrar in which you can hide your details from the domain registrant details section, without losing the ownership. It is features to protect your privacy where you don’t want peoples to contact you form any reason. Protect your privacy with Net Craft India’s privacy protection service by checking the option when registering the domain name.

Domain registration period is the period you have registered your domain. You can register a domain name for a minimum period of one year and maximum of ten years. We advice to register your domain more than two years always as google and yahoo consider old and long period registered domain more than soon expiring domains. Google and Yahoo are important for your website t o reach more visitors.

If you think you are the owner of a domain name and find someone else as the registrant, it means someone else is the owner of the domain. Most probably it’s usually happening to be the person who is managing your domain and website or the company you have designed your website or bought your domain name. You must take care of this when you buy a domain name from some company that you must get a control panel of domain and also of the hosting account to be apart from this type of disputes. Don’t share your id and password of control panels with anyone to stop unauthorized ownership transfer. Unfortunately we cannot change the down ownership without a legal ownership change document, a court order and a order from world Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

We allow our registrant grace period for register their domain, after 30 days the domain will be free to be registered by anyone. You can also register any domain name which is been register before but the domain name must be free at the time of your request.