Get a Good Domain Name

Selecting a domain names has become a major problem these days. If you wish to have a certain domain name, then it makes you feel terrible when you find out that it is taken by some one else. There are many tools that can help you to find a good combination of the domain name that you are searching. These tools do not always give you the best solution, so you should find out for your self. These tools have limited options as well as capabilities. So you should not rely totally on these tools and software’s.

One thing that can make a difference is that when you buy a Dot com domain name instead of others domain names like dot info. People find it is easy and preferable to type the domain names that have a dot com ending. So one must buy a dot com domain name instead of others. While you choose a domain name, you should not use double hyphens. People will not like to type domain names that will contain double hyphens. On the other hand, if you choose to have a single hyphen, then it can be acceptable. Nowadays you will find few domain names that will contain a single hyphen. People are getting use to domain names with a single hyphen. So a single hyphen domain name is an option that can be considered. However, it’s best to not use one. Users are very use to with the domains names that ends with a dot com. So it is good to pick a dot com for a domain name.

Choose a domain name that is not hard to remember and it must be simple. For example consider the domain name for Yahoo.com. It’s easier to remember as well as typing the address for the domain name of Yahoo.com. So you must think as a user before selecting a domain name. Try to select a domain name that’s not too long. People do not prefer long names as it is hard to remember for them as well as it is also not comfortable to type them too. One more thing is to select a name that will describe the idea of our website.

Try to select a domain name that is very much chosen to the idea behind your site. How great it well be if you can select a name that can expressed the basic idea of your website and at the same time is easy to remember because of its fact which is not too long. These aspects play an extremely important role in your success for your web site. Think that if your site becomes a heavy traffic site one day and thousands of users will come every day. However, this is only possible if you select a decent domain name.

ICANN Auctioning New Top-Level Domains: Serving Public Interest or Its Own? (CircleID)

One of these updates is a paper by ICANN's "auction design consultant PowerAuctions LLC". The document makes a case for an auction to be held for the "resolution of contention among competing new gTLD applicants for identical or similar strings."

The Bid for International Cyber Property Rights (E-Commerce Times)

Who would like to bid the highest amount for the exclusive global rights to the new domain suffix, .dubai, under ICANN's latest policy? Such a suffix will create a powerful domain root that will corner some 180 services underneath it, like go.dubai, hotel.dubai, job.dubai, cars.dubai or fly.dubai. Who would be the next global cyber-branding leader of this new millennium?

Hundreds of Dutch web sites hacked by Islamic hackers (ZDNet)

In what appears to be a mass defacement, where several hundred domains take advantage of a shared hosting provider, starting as of this Friday, an Islamic hacker known as nEt^DeViL -- this is not the NetDevilz team that hijacked the DNS records of the ICANN and Photobucket in June --...

How Rise in Nationalism and Industry's Lack of Foresight Could Mean a Fragmented and Isolated Web (CircleID)

I have been thinking a lot lately on the topic of the free flow of information on the internet—what kinds of tools are available now and in the future for governments (especially repressive ones) to control content, isolate their people and keep any contrary viewpoints censored.

Service Channels (Web Host Directory)

Tucows Inc, a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies recent survey has produced findings that revealed resellers of email and domain names are missing significant business opportunities to tap into social network users.