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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Will registering a .info domain have any SEO impact?
Just to save money as my domain list gets longer, I want to book in advance domains.
I want to save money by buying .info domains rather than .com.
Will it affect SEO rankings in any way?
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What does a complete rebrand/focus change do for a domains SEO?
I have a client that launched a webstore a while back and for example, lets say he sold apples on it and the domain was called www.fruit.com
The webstore is not doing so well so he has decided to do ...
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Domain name registrar which provides an api for registration?
I am looking for a domain name registrar which provides an api for registration. I want to register domain names programmatically. I don't want registrars which sell packages for resellers or ...
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Does having Abuse and Postmaster Emails help to stop being treated as SPAM?
I read on some blog (I don't remember the URL) that having abuse@mydomain.com and postmaster@mydomian.com in addition to main email help to prevent our mails from being categorized as spam. Is it ...
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Registering single letter domain, selling subdomains? [closed]
I am about to purchase x.yz or a.bc (not those, but same lengths). I want to sell subdomains like rst.x.yz to the public, and would be able to run my own DNS servers for it. Is there a system (iPanel ...
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Would problems arise if a domain was bought as 'name.com' instead of 'www.name.com'
If a website domain name was bought and registered as 'name.com' instead of 'www.name.com' would users still be able to find the site by typing 'www.name.com'?
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Why Google says that “www.domain.com” is different from “domain.com”?
In Google webmasters tool, there is mentioned that www.domain.com is different from domain.com, and the webmaster is asked to get sure that the correct one is in action there to get the reports.
Why ...
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Should I host my site with the same company I bought a domain from?
I feel like I heard advice once upon a time that one should split these "services" between two companies. I cannot for the life of me figure out why this should be. For example, what would the ...
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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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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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Is there any issue with using the word Official in a domain name?
I want to grab a new domain name for a site I look after but many of the best word combinations are taken.
Is there any legal issue with using the word official in a domain name?
For example: ...
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domain with only one or two characters
I came across some sites that have only 2 or even 1 charachter for the domain name like hp.com, u.bb and 9.bb
How come? as we know that when registering a domain name we must provide at least 3 ...
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Why/How do expired domain names get bought so quickly?
A relative let my wife's family .com domain name expire. Apart from that being annoying in itself, the domain now redirects to random spam blogs and is owned by someone with almost 5000 other domains ...
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Google does not auto complete my website's name
When I type in my website's name into Google it gives all other competing websites names but never autocompletes mine. Did the other sites buy the autocomplete option from Google?
My website is ...
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How to produce a domain name?
I want to make a blog but I am confused with the domain name.I took helped from Google to search for the keywords and found "C programming","C language"and "C language tutorials" very rich.The problem ...
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Running a single web site on multiple hosts across the world to improve regional performance
Currently I have a web site that is hosted in the US, however there are people from all over the world that use it. Due to the site serving high bandwidth content, certain areas in the world ...
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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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How do I get a domain from a grabber without paying? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Purchasing a Domain from a Domain Squatter
A domain grabber has registered a domain that I wanted. All they're doing on the site is display ads. How do I get the domain ...
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Domains, hosting and the law
Currently I live in the Netherlands. So, what if..
I register a .CN domainname and upload my website to it. Under which law is my website? The Chinese or the Dutch?
and I host my website at the Isle ...
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Should I preemptively register alternate domain names?
If I register a really good .com domain name, should I also register:
alternate spellings
mis-spellings
hyphenated versions
other variations: iExample.com, eExample.com, myExample.com, etc.
other ...
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Registering a domain directly at nic.sm?
I am an individual and would like to register a ".sm" domain.
Nic.sm provides forms for individuals to send them by fax or mail and information for payment is also available. The cheapest reseller ...
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Add domain to VPS
I have a VPS server running Ubuntu 11.04 with webmin installed on it. How can I add my example.com domain to my VPS like the way we do on shared server via web panels such as cPanel and etc?
Thanks.
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What is the impact to Google rank when I transfer a domain?
I'm buying a domain which already has 12 years, I would like to know if after the transfer for my id this domain will lose rank on google?
or does it have any consequence for google rank ?
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Finding the expiration date of a domain?
Is there a way to find the expiration date of a ".id.au" domain?
I can't seem to find any information on any .id.au domain I search on.
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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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Can someone sue me/take my domain?
I have found a great domain that isn't in use, but the .com and .net domains are already taken. There's nothing on the domains though, it just says they are registered with Network Solutions and are ...
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Domain Name Expired, Will My Backorder Work?
I'm interested in a domain name that expired August 9, 2012 and backordered it a few months ago. When I check the status of the domain name, it is listed as "autoRenewPeriod".
It has a new expiration ...
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How to avoid fraud when purchasing a domain
I have approached a domain owner about purchasing their domain. We have agreed on a price, what is the safest/best way to send them payment and ensure I receive the domain?
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Having either www.domainname.com or domainname.com is really required? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
www and non www can suffer duplicated content
When I go for any website review the first point I get from the reviewers is both of my www and non www domains should ...
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Point domain to Amazon EC2 Server
I just got a domain from a rather suspicious registrar and I want to point that domain to an EC2 instance from Amazon AWS. I already have an elastic IP ready and just need to point the domain to it.
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what is the primary domain in godaddy for?
I just bought the deluxe web-hosting service of godaddy and am very confused with the term "primary domain". What is this thing for and can I remove it so I can organize my websites in different ...
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How to host a single website on multiple servers?
I'm planning on releasing an iOS app that downloads video from my server. If hundreds of people on the launch day try to do this, then my website and the services that my server provides will clearly ...
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How can I obtain a domain that is abandoned?
There is a particular domain name that I'm interested in, but when you enter the domain in a browser the browser says "Domain has no index file", which doesn't appear to be a browser message, but a ...
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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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What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
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How can I buy a domain that has already been registered?
I want to buy a domain name, but it has already been registered and I am unable to find any contact information for the owner on the site.
How can I contact the domain's owner to inquire about buying ...
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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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What are CNAME and A DNS Records?
What are CNAME and A DNS records? What are they used for? What is the difference between the two?
Edit: Where does the CNAME record exist? On the server or with the domain registrar?
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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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My domain PageRank shows as unavailable, why is that?
My domain, http://www.anovaordemmundial.com , has been snatched by some opportunist when I failed to renew the domain. I know, it's all my fault :/ . After I have being ripped off and bought my domain ...
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Why the sudden popularity of .io domains?
I've noticed a number of new webapps and sites are being hosted at .io domains (the top-level domain for the British Indian Ocean Territories). A couple examples include:
Forecast.io
GitHub.io
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Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
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Transferring exotic domain names to major registrars
I am new to buying domain names and know they can be transferred from one registrar to another. Are there any limitations? Some registrars describe how to transfer domains from specific registrars, ...
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Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?
We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting ...
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How to understand if a domain is locked or not?
I have some domains, and I'd like to Lock them all, to prevent fraud chances. However, the control panel of the domain seller doesn't have this feature.
I created a ticket for them, to lock all of ...
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What to do with my .name domain name?
Since 2006 or so I've owned a .name domain name (3rd level, eg. john.doe.name). I bought it originally at a service called FreeYourID.com, which offered the .name domain as well as automatically ...
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Is charging for a free domain transfer justified?
A client of ours is trying to transfer a .co.uk domain name away from her current web company. They are trying to charge her upwards of £100 for the transfer.
I know that transfers of a .co.uk domain ...
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On what criteria should I evaluate domain registrars?
Though I've been a web developer for a fair amount of time, I am going for the first time to buy a few domain names. I have looked into the domains I'm going to buy and know that they're available, ...
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Content from a domain I used to own is appearing in my twitter feed
I had an old domain with a WordPress setup hosted by GoDaddy. I changed the business name and moved everything over to a new site, new domain, and new host a couple of years ago. I let the old domain ...
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Does google contribute ranking from cdn.example.com to example.com?
Background
From my understanding, http://mywebsite.com/image.jpg, can help the ranking of http://mywebsite.com in a search engine, such as Google (obviously the search engine of primary concern).
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