For problems and issues around the registration of domain names.
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What's the difference between cheap and expensive domain registrars?
A few years ago I registered a domain with Network Solutions. In recent years I've been using cheaper services such as namecheap, powerpipe etc.
Every time that I need to renew some of the older ...
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How do I register a domain name, but keep who I am secret?
Over the years I've seen a number of owner proxy services, but have never used one, and have no idea if they work; or for that matter if there's any legal risk to using them, such as making easier to ...
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Pros and cons of long-term domain registrations
What are the pros and cons for long-term domain registrations, such as 5 or 10 years?
One benefit I can think of is locking-in the domain price. I can't really think of any cons (beyond just not ...
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Recover Domain from Failed Company
I have an old client who wanted to transfer hosting companies. However, the company he has managing his domain has gone under and won't respond to phone calls or emails, and their account manager is ...
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Registering a web-domain with different TLD
I am planning to buy a web-domain for myself. I am looking for a particular word combination and in the process I notice many combinations are already taken up in .com TLD. If someone owns ...
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Is it possible to register a “.er” domain. If so, how?
The title says it all. Where could I go to register the domain?
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List of services for privatizing whois information
I am registered with a domain name registrar which does not offer an anonymous whois service. However, I am interested in using some third-party service to keep my whois information private. Are there ...
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Alternative to GoDaddy? [closed]
For a number of reasons I'm thinking about slowly moving my domains away from GoDaddy. Unfortunately I don't know of a good alternative, and am looking for a recommendation.
To match what I ...
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Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
i am having a domain registered with godaddy when i am looking through my domain details i found this in the who is lookup , what is this means and if i would like to transfer my domain to another ...
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Domain Transfer not carrying over paid time
I recently renewed my domain for a year on BlueHost. A few days later, I decided to transfer it to GoDaddy. After transferring, GoDaddy did not show the new year that I recently paid for. After ...
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How to get a domain with invalid contact details
There's a domain that I want. The registrant details were hidden behind Domain Discreet, which no longer exists, and none of the contact info works, email bounces etc. so I can't approach the owner ...
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How can I keep my privacy while owning multiple domain names?
I want to own, create and run few domains. I do not want 'whois' to have my name, home address and home phone available to anyone who looks me up.
I've already bought a mailbox that I can use for my ...
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How do I point a new domain to start on a page that's not index.html on separate hosting?
I'm using a service (CMS/Host) called SquareSpace to host my site, and today I'm registering the domain for it. Basically, how do I make it so when somebody types www.tedxoxford.com it points at ...
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Registering my domain with a different service provider
Almost before one year I registered my domain with Godaddy for one year , and it expired 2 weeks ago, but it still seems Godaddy has the domain, and I can't register with another service provider.
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How to change ownership of a domain name from “missing” web designer
We had a website produced a few years ago with a .ORG domain name. The site hadn't grown with our needs, so we've now got a new .co.uk site.
Our intention was to transfer the .org address to the ...
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Can I reuse my nameservers from one domain registrar with another?
My regular domain is one I got from GoDaddy.
Just recently, I registered a short .cr domain (Costa Rica) in http://www.nic.cr/ . During registration, they asked for nameservers (and just ...
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Where to buy a domain for my local server [closed]
I have made a website and hosted in my local computer using a static ip
Where can i buy a domain name such as www.something.com such that it can redirect to my static IP.
So that if i m using a page ...
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does co.uk domains need a uk citizen?
I am a us citizen based in the us. I would like to register a co.uk domain. Do I need to be a uk citizen or have some other sort of connection to the uk to register that domain?
For instance, .ca ...
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How do people buy Domain Names?
GoDaddy charges $8 for a domain and name.com charges $10. Some people seem to buy many domains to increase their SEO or to sell them later for more money than they paid.
Do these people pay less ...
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Monitoring Domain Availability
How can I write a tool to monitor domain name availability? In particular, I am interested in monitoring availability of a domain which is in PENDINGDELETE (or REDEMPTIONPERIOD or ...
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why are my sites bien blocked by Smartfilter at my work
Why are my domains being blocked by Smartfilter (owned by Yahoo) at work.
I buddy mentioned that he had the issue before. He "categorized" his domain with his registrar, changing it from ...
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Safety of purchasing country-specific domains from registrars?
None of the previous questions tackle some of the one-off (or further) countries' registries, beyond .co.uk, .it, et al. or else I'd have found an answer myself.
Is it safe to buy a domain from a ...
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New Domain Registration - Price differences
I need to register new domain name. I gone through many sites. All sites are showing different prices. Lowest price (99/- Rs) I found on http://www.bigrock.in/. On other sites, like GoDaddy or ...
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How to register a domain for a beginner?
I've never registered a .com , .net like domain before, and I would like to do some research before doing so.
I currently have a ruby on rails app running Heroku. Is there anything special I have to ...
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Getting a .co.uk domain that is already registered
There is a .co.uk name that I want (I've had the .com version for nearly 7 years now).
I would even be prepared to pay a small amount for it, but on http://whois.domaintools.com/ only a business name ...
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How do I buy this domain name? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I buy a domain that has already been registered?
How can I buy the domain name www.autospell.com.
It seems to have a weird status with no website, but also it ...
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Where can I register .tw domain extensions?
I'm currently looking to register the Taiwanese version of my company's domain. Dynadot, doesn't register domains with that extension. I found a few places on the web: Godaddy has them, and a fewer ...
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How do I get a .name domain name
There was a service which provided email aliases on .name domain, but it seem to be gone now, so I was thinking of actually getting a domain for myself (martin.toth.name sounds nice).
Do I understand ...
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Seperate .com domain name purchasing for a VPS
I am looking at getting a VPS with RackSRV, and they don't sell domain names, but are happy to set it up after I get one elsewhere.
Can anyone recommend somewhere I can purchase just the domain, and ...
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reliable place to buy .io domains [closed]
I'm looking around trying to find a good place to buy .io domains.
Suddenly, I think I'm surrounded by scammers, since .io domain providers websites, are really badly-designed and I am not feeling of ...
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What is Parked Domain and how can we generate a revenue from a parked domain
I have registered a domain name abc.com from xyz company. i have the secret code too. I have heard about the revenue from parked domains.
I would like to know how can we generate revenue from it and ...
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private domain registration
I have seen many people hide their personal details like address and phone number while registering a domain. Sometimes they pay for this private registration. So that their information doesn't ...
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Best reseller for a domain name
Looking to purchase a domain name separately from the package (using SliceHost and want a domain name) and I was wondering what is the best reseller to purchase from.
All the pricing for a yearly ...
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Providing fake info during domain registration - does it matter?
As you are all most likely aware already all domain registrars ask for your personal information.
Such personal information includes:
Forename and surname
Address information
Email address
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