Domains are hostnames that identify Internet Protocol (IP) resources such as web sites. They provide a human-friendly, easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources.
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What Can I do to Contact a Domain Owner?
A few months ago, I found a perfect .com domain name for a website I'm working on. Bad news: it was taken. Good news: It was set to expire on January 12, 2012. It's not a premium name or anything ...
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Importance of having EDU backlinks
I've built a few links on 50 EDU / GOV websites. 1 of them has PR 8, 3 of them have PR 7, 8 of them PR6,7 of them PR5,12 of them PR4,8 of them PR3, 1 of them PR2, 6 of them PR1, 10 of them PR0. My ...
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domain expiration during transfer
What happens to domain expiration during transfer to a different registrar?
Currently my domain will expire in 2012. I wonder if it will be affected in any way.
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How to copy Wordpress website within same hosting?
I use bluhost web hosting.
I already have mysite1.com. I want to copy this website to different domains within the same hosting, eg. mysite2.com, mysite3.com, and so on. All sites will have the same ...
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Would it be wrong to register a local domain (.ro) which has the same name as a famous forum .com?
Let's say there is a niche forum called HowToChopOnionWithoutCrying.com (I'm making it up, of course) and it's in English.
And I want to create a similar forum in Romanian, registering ...
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Is it worth paying for a domain with a PageRank of 6?
I am looking to start on online magazine and I don't have a special name for it yet, and I am intending to monetise it through adds. I found a good domain that has a PageRank of 6 for 600$. is it ...
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Moving to a new domain - what to do to minimize visitor loss
I want to move my website to a new domain. Would be nice if you can share some experience or suggestion to minimize loss of visitors.
In google webmaster tools there is an option which allows to move ...
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Can a company take my domain away from me?
I have a domain which coincidentally is the same name of a company. Is there any legal way in which this company can take my domain away from me?
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URLs which begin “www2”
I was sent a link recently http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/
I've occasionally noticed this appear in some web addresses, where does the "2" come from? Does it mean anything? How would I go about getting ...
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Get all registered country code top-level domain names
Is there a way to get all the registered domain names for .CN or another country code (CC) top-level domain (TLD)?
Is there a central registry for such data? If not, how do I go about collecting ...
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Domain Expiration when transfer is processing, will I lose it?
I have registered my domain at netfirms.com and the expired date is 10-Feb-2013. I've started a transfer process to bigrock.com on 08-Feb-2013 and they have charged 1 year renual.
All the ...
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Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)
I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain ...
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When choosing a domain does including your brand affect SEO performance?
I've been asked to build a "landing page" for a local branch of an international corporation. While the corporation has a well-established domain name, the local office wants to use a unique, ...
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Best Strategy for Exact Match Domain (EMD) Along Side Branded Domain
I lucked out and managed to buy a two word .com EMD for the most important key-phrase for our b2b SaaS startup.
Shutting down our branded domain isn't an option, we've already got too much invested ...
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Is using keywords in a domain enough to ensure a top position in Google? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the best ways to increase your site's position in Google?
If I want to be listed top for the query "where is obama from", what more do I have to do beyond ...
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RewriteRule not working for certain URLs
There are a few domains pointing towards the same server, and of course I need them all redirect to only one of them.
Redirects work, but only for certain URLs.
What works: http://www.domain.com, ...
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Is (was) SEO the only reason to force the www. on domain names?
Following on from a response to the question Force www. on multi domain site and retain http or https - I was wondering if SEO (specifically, avoiding duplicate content penalties) was the only reason ...
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domain, subdomain and ranking
we have a well ranking site on the domain(e.g. www.test.com) running for 2 years having good PR i.e. 5 and the site having its 400000+ url indexed and then we have a new site on the subdomain(e.g. ...
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SEO and alias domain names
What is the best SEO strategy when aliasing several domains to a primary domain,
is it "enough" to just set them up as aliases
is it better to alias them and setup some kind of rewrite rules to ...
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Are hyphens bad for domain names? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to put hyphens in a domain name ?
I would just trying to think of a popular website
that has hyphens in its domain, and honestly - I was having
problems ...
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Blogger not redirecting
I bought a new domain staygeo.com and pointed my blogger blog to gis.staygeo.com. I have checked the box in blogger publishing settings saying Redirect staygeo.com to gis.staygeo.com. Still if I just ...
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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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Domain reg transfer - will my site go down at all?
My website is hosted on my own server, however the domain is registered with fasthosts and I want to change to a different provider.
Will i experience any downtime?
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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 ...
