Five Common Domain Registration Mistakes – Which One Do You Want to Avoid?
A domain name is the identity of your website and loosing the online identity can cause severe and costly damage.
However, do not make these mistakes when registering your domain name.
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Mistake #1: Not Registering a Domain Yourself
You know how a business owner hires someone to create a website for their company and then after a few years, the person (or company) who created the website disappears for whatever reason? The person or company may have moved out of the area; the person might get another job; or they may be out of business.
Then unknowingly, the web domain registration expires and is automatically, electronically gobbled up by opportunistic domain squatters. These domain squatters then register the expired domain in hopes that the original owner will be highly motivated to purchase the domain name at a much higher asking price. Usually, squatters might ask for $200 to $2000. Sometimes, it could even be much more.
So what should you do instead if you have not registered the domain yet? Just go to one of the best domain registration services below and register the domain yourself.
- Namecheap – one of the cheapest with free domain privacy for first year.
- Godaddy – the most popular and trusted domain registrar.

Did someone else register your domain name for you? A webdesigner or web host perhaps has done it for you. That’s fine, but you’ll want to check a few things. Find out what you should do next.
Mistake #2: Forgot to Renew Domain Name on Time
You are working real hard to beat your online competitors, search the entire internet for your targeted audience, calling all your suppliers bargaining for the lowest cost price so that you can have a much competitive pricing, but be sure you have not missed your domain renewal notice, you should always renew your domain on time to avoid loosing your business.
There are various ways to keep your domain name safe.
Mistake #3: Paying Too Much for a Domain
You only should pay extra for a premium domain name, i.e the domain has been registered by somebody else so they can sell at higher price. A domain name is a domain name. You pay to reserve the name on yearly basis. By paying $35/year instead of $12/year does not give you:
- a top placement in Google's search result. You still need to work on your Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- a website. You still need a website built!
- a hosting space. A reliable hosting like Hostgator is recommended and should cost only around $10/month. The Hostgator coupon codes 2012 could save you more for your first invoice.
- visitors to your website. You still need to do some marketing and promotion to get visitors.
Mistake #4: Not Aware of Registration Scams
Registering your domain name is usually safe, but as with anything, there are some folks who may try to scam you. Here are two things to watch out for:
- You might receive offers (email or snail mail) from other registrars who may lead you to believe that you need to renew your domain name with them. While you can do that (you can transfer registrars at any time), these offers usually are at high prices. Don't fall for it. Know who your registar is. If the notice isn't from your registrar, pitch it in the trash.
- "Lock" your domain name. Registrars offer a feature called "domain locking" at no extra cost. It prevents your domain name from being transferred to another registrar unless you authorize the transfer by first "unlocking" the domain. It's a good safeguard, and you can do it online in just a couple steps.
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Jack 12:01 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
http://futurequest.net/ runs on Apache. All full hosting packages have PHP and multiple databases, among other things. There’s no bull there. They’ll bend over backward to help you out. It’s worth the price.
Karl 2:41 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
Let me tell you a little about my experience with web hosting companies over the years. At times you will come across deals that are almost too good to be true – cheap web hosting with amazing features! There are hosts that while offering cheap prices do back that up with excellent performance and service, but there are things to be noted:
There are a lot of potential questions you must ask yourself, whilst bearing in mind about their reputation, and ultimately – the price. check http://www.topwebhostingslist.com to see what web host is getting the best reputation as well as the bad, which helps to decide who to stay away from.Your experience might be different but I have many complaints from PowWeb and Dot5Hosting. Those companies just took the money and provided me with bad customer support and my websites would always be down. Today I use inmotionhosting for my web hosting and I’m very satisfied. As long as you do a little research before buying your web hosting you will be fine
good luck!
Ron 2:19 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
For service, InMotion.com seems to be tops, but there are other just as good.
Hosting Info:
Web Hosting Jury: http://www.webhostingjury.com/
http://www.rankpulse.com/www.siteground.com
http://www.siteground.com/
http://b2evolution.net/web-hosting/top-quality-best-webhosting.php
http://www.hosting-shopper.com/
Useful Tools/Info:
http://hapedit.free.fr/tools.php
What is Favicon.ico and How to Create a Favicon Icon for Your Website: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/favicon.shtml
How to Register Your Own Domain Name: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/registerdomain.shtml
SEO Tools:
http://seo.alleycode.com/freetools.htm
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
Ron
Joe G 1:51 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
As an experienced webmaster I recommend BlueHost service which I’m sure it would work for you and fulfill all your requirements. They have a really great offer for hosting & I have used them for over 3 yrs now, and have never had a single problem with them.
They are a Multi-awarded Web Hosting which offer a Full-featured service only $6.95. You can see their Plan Details accompanied with reliable reviews regarding their service at:
http://www.threehosts.com/reviews/1st
Here I have copied and pasted its features from their website to view:
Free Domain Forever
Unlimited Space
Unlimited Transfer
Blog (wordpress)
Forum (phpbb,bulletin)
Host UNLIMITED Domains (Support All Domain Names)
2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL
Front Page Extensions
Free Site Builder
24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support
Free Search Engine Submission
They also offer "Free Site Builder" that helps you build your web pages without difficulty if you are not skilled in using any website creating program. (WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get) You can use this service optionally.
IMPORTANT********
This service was awarded “The Best Web Host OF The Year”.
If you sign up for this service you will have $75 credits to advertise your website with the google & yahoo search engines for free!
You Can Register A Free Domain or Use Your Existing Domains. They Support All Domain Names.
Another useful link:
http://www.threehosts.com/build
There you can find a step-by-step guide to start your website.
And also a cheap, reliable service:
http://www.goldpuma.com
And the easiest way to create a website is reachable here (web host offering 4500 decent templates):
http://www.threehosts.com/tell-me-more/hg.html
Good Luck!
Jennifer 2:35 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
Hi,
I would recommend "IX WebHosting" because it’s very cheap and reliable. Their support service is awesome. This company offers site building tools, application vault, web mail, antivirus, Php, MysQL and hosts unlimited websites in one plan. Don’t go for free web hosting.They are not reliable. Check it out here:
http://top50webhosting.org
digiboy 1:56 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
You may wish to take a look at http://www.webfusion.com
Simple yet powerful hosting plans with "no bull" like you want. Don’t let the low pricing fool you.
hooyeah123 2:56 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
http://www.acquirewebspace.com/
is pretty cheap reseller that has 24/7 support
Bhavani 4:35 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
There are many different types of web hosting companies available in the market today. Choosing a web hosting provider depends on what type of website you want to have: hobby, blog, or ecommerce site. As a result, there are different flavors of hosting providers. Some of the most common web site hosting types is: shared, free, and dedicated hosting. Free web hosting services for example, place ads on the user’s web pages and can be cumbersome and annoying for visitors. The other web hosting plans offer great support, options, and bandwidth but charge a monthly fee Shared hosting is the most popular web hosting plan, basic. Shared web site hosting permits more than one site to be hosted on the same server. Here, the web hosts provide the system administration and the server maintenance. Benefits of a shared hosting site are programming features such as ASP, PHP, MySQL, large bandwidth, and multiple e-mail address capability. Compared to free web hosting, shared web hosting allows a user to have their own domain name. Shared hosting is a way for a hosting company to offer affordable web hosting to their clients while having more users on one server and thus less overhead costs. Dedicated hosting is a good option for someone who wants more storage and bandwidth and control over the server. The advantages of having dedicated hosting are: unlimited databases and email addresses as well as unlimited bandwidth. Generally, a dedicated server plan offers the user with a monthly bandwidth of 500 GB to 1 TB. Also important to know that there are two types of dedicated web hosting plans: managed and unmanaged. Managed hosting is hosting that is still controlled by the hosting company. In unmanaged dedicated web hosting, the user is the server administrator, permitting the user the greatest amount of control and flexibility. Unfortunately, unmanaged hosting is complicated and takes more time than a managed hosting solution.
Soon Chai 12:43 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
Hi TheFox,
If you want a truly reliable web host with quality service, I’d strongly recommend Host Gator. It does offer a domain registration service coupled with its web hosting.
But generally, a domain name registered with a web host costs a few bucks more per year. That’s one thing you must know.
If you register your domain name with a domain registrar, you can get cheaper. It’s just that you need to change your dns server manually (it’s not difficult though).
However, if quality is your main concern and you want to save yourself the hassle of manually changing dns server, and you don’t mind paying a few bucks more for the domain name when you sign up with the web hosting, then I don’t think you’ll have a problem with Host Gator.
Above is an almost complete review of Host Gator. It’s very information heavy, that’s why I can’t copy everything over here. Go have a good read (will probably take you about 10 mins but it’s worth it if you can get one that provides you with the best reliability and earns you the most profits):
Oh, Php/Mysql and Apache are available in it too. So you don’t have to worry about that.
Hope that helps. Cheers
Soon Chai
Shruti 2:07 pm on October 28, 2011 Permalink |
Do not buy domain and web hosting from same company, it will be pain to move out later if you wish to do so. You can check review of top ten web hosting service providers at website like
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