Acquire an address
(buy a domain name)
Prospective visitors can not find your house
(domain) on the Internet without a proper address. Experts
call this address a URL (uniform resource locator). Your
Internet address must contain a unique house name and a
neighborhood identifier.
Lets imagine you want to use the name
Iriswhite for your address and you want to live in the
.com
neighborhood. Your informal house name would be
iriswhite.com (if it is available for you to acquire). To
get the formal Internet address, add “http://www.” in front
of the house name, making it
http://www.iriswhite.com. This is the address people can
type into their browsers to visit Iriswhite’s house on the
Internet.
Your house name should be as short as possible so
visitors can easily remember it. Franklee.com is much better
than frankleeresidenceontheinternet.com. Your name should
also relate to the type of house you are building.
There are several Internet neighborhoods
with available space. Each one caters to a different
category of residents and some of them restrict residency to
specific types of organizations, businesses or services. The
most popular neighborhoods are .com and .org.
Most businesses and personal homes exist in the .com
neighborhood. Non-commercial, non-profit and charitable organizations
normally reside in the .org
neighborhood.
New neighborhoods are zoned every few
years. Some of the new ones go by names like .biz, .info,
.name, and .tv. The U.S. government has its own .gov
neighborhood and educational institutions like colleges and
universities reside in the .edu neighborhood. Countries also
have unique names for their neighborhoods.
You can register your own unique address on
the Internet or you can purchase an address that is
currently owned. Currently owned addresses being sold or
auctioned can be very expensive (thousands of dollars),
whereas a new or abandoned address can be acquired for $10 -
$50 per year.
You do not actually purchase a name and address. You
purchase the exclusive right to use that name and address for a specific
period of time. A name can be registered for a period of one
to ten years, and then continually renewed for as long as
you want to keep using it. When you purchase name
rights, that is all you are purchasing. The price does not
include a lot (server space) on which to build (host) your house.
Costs to register names range from $100 per
year to as low as $10 per year, depending on which of the
many available registrars you use and the neighborhood where
you want to reside. The average annual price is often lower
if you pay for more than one year in advance. Prices in the
newer neighborhoods are generally higher, but (so far) there
have been no significant migrations to the new
neighborhoods.
You should not pay $35 for a domain name
when you can pay as little as $10.95 or even less for the
same name from a different registrar. All registrars are
agents for ICANN (Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers).
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Find and buy your own domain name
Lets do it. Purchase your
name/address
Showtheworld.com sells new domain names in
the .com, .org, .net, and .us neighborhoods for prices
starting at $9.95 per year. New domain names are also
available in other U.S. and foreign territories at
competitive prices. If you want full administrative control
over your own new domain name, use our
Domain Name Purchasing Service Domain Name Purchasing Service.
If you are looking for an interesting or
unusual address, check existing domain names for sale by
Show The World.
These run a little on the expensive side but the commercial
possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
After you purchase your domain name, return to
showtheworld.com and continue with the
Next Step.
Next step –
Find an empty lot
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