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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Why use a Top Level Domain
I am trying to understand the use of Top Level Domains. Do they help from a SEO perspective? Lets say I have a US site and a Canada site. For US, I create www.foo.com and for Canada I create ...
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Is ICANN planning any changes to domain registration soon?
The BBC is reporting that domain registration will be changing next year.
The .co
landgrab could be one of the last
before ICANN overhauls the way net
addresses are assigned.
Next year ...
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åäö in .com domain
Is ÅÄÖ allowed in .com domain? it is allowed in swedish .se top level domain. ie kåtbock.se which means hornygoat. According to to swedish internet magazine you can use ÅÄÖ in .com domain, but you ...
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What would be a list of common website expenses?
For example: seo; web-development; site-maintenance; hosting; domain; ssl-certificate; etc.
___UPDATES___
FROM_ME: Stock-Photos; Logo; Legal; eCommerce_Shopping-Cart
FROM_Lèse_majesté: ...
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Registering a .ru domain in USA
I am located in the USA and am interested in registering a .ru domain. I am having some trouble finding a good domain registration site -- light research on 101domain turns up more than a handful of ...
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SEO friendly way of linking/redirecting 2 domains to 1 - shoes example ;)
Suppose I have a shoe shop with website: myshoeshop.com. I generate some traffic, but only 10 visitors per week. I then realize that green shoes are very popular and what everybody searches for.
Of ...
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Transferring a Domain Safely
I want to transfer a domain that I am buying off somebody but I want to make sure i'm not getting scammed. Is there some kind of 3rd-party website that can help me with this kind of transfer so that I ...
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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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Two domains, one site - what's the best way to set this up?
I'm setting up a site, say mysite.com. I've also bought mysite.net.
What's the best way to mange this so that regardless which the user types, they end up on mysite.com?
Also, what are the ...
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SEO Domain Name Optimization
Quick question:
I'm trying to decide on the best domain name for my niche. I have it narrowed down to the following options:
keyword.co
mykeyword.com
keywordnetwork.com
Which of these domain ...
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How important is the uniqueness of your domain name?
I've finally come up with a domain name that I like and is available. The name is nonsensical and doesn't translate into anything meaningful in any language, as far as I know.
It's something like ...
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What to do when product range evolves and site name does not reflect this?
Suppose, just as an example, I have a website with domain www.gifts-for-dogs.com.....but after a few years I start selling stuff for Cats and Fish. I may not keep enough of a range of products for ...
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.CO Domains. Worthwhile? [closed]
So there is the new domain extension .co which was released recently.
What do you think of using this domain for a website? Is the upside of getting a decent name outweighed by the negatives? I ...
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Forwarding a subdomain to main domain using Godaddy
I have current blog, which was hosted on Tumblr at http://blog.ryanhayes.net. I'm moving it over to http://ryanhayes.net, and have all the 301 redirects set up for the blog entries to map to my new ...
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AJAX Keyword Suggestion Tool
Are there any JavaScript includes to provide an AJAX based keyword suggestion tool based on some existing text?
For instance Yahoo offer a Keyword Extraction Tool but due to cross-domain JavaScript ...
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Is it possible to reference images outside the domain root?
I have a website with a file structure a bit like this....
/webroot/folder1/main - php, css etc files in here
/webroot/folder1/data/images - images in here
I.e. ...
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I want to transfer a domain to another registrar
I have a domain registered at hostgator.com which would expire in a day.Now i want to use godaddy for the domain, what would be the best practise for me:
1. Wait for the domain to expire and then ...
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Domain, Hosting and DNS management on 3 seperate providers - is this possible?
I wanted to know if its possible to do the following:
Buy Domain from GoDaddy.
Buy Hosting from HostGator.
Buy DNS Management from DNS Made Easy.
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Redirect subdomain to local PC
I have a home web server which is constantly running. Is it possible to create a subdomain which would redirect traffic to another local PC?
For example, I have one Server and one notebook (with web ...
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How to use Cloudflare and Namecheap email forwarding at the same time?
I want to use Cloudflare, and it requires that I use their nameservers.
The problem is that I'm using some features from Namecheap like email forwarding, which will be disabled (if I didn't get it ...
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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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Allow a web designer to modify DNS without letting them transfer the domain?
We are in the process of having a web designer create a new website for us, but I don't want to give access to the control panel for the domain names (and have no way to limit it, it seems), while at ...
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Huge company wants my domain name
Not sure if this is the right place to ask but I'll give it a go. I simply require a little advice;
A very large hosted e-commerce platform emailed me a while back and basically asked me to transfer ...
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Is there a domain search tool on the web that works well?
I would like to search for all available domains ending with a particular word. The best tool I've found for this so far is domainsbot, but it doesn't seem to work as it should (it will only give you ...
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Purchase existing domain and transfer to new registrar
I am purchasing an existing domain from the owner who has it registered with GoDaddy.
I want to transfer the domain to another registrar and of course have it under my name.
If they update the ...
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How to register a single character SLD
Most of the major registrars have a 3 character minimum for second-level domains. However, I know that it's possible to register them. (a.cc, o.co)
You can ever register single unicode domain names ...
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The best way to snatch an expiring domain?
There's a domain that I've been looking to acquire that is expiring on the 30th of this month. I don't think it is very popular, and the guy hasn't seemed to update the website in two years now.
So, ...
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How to transfer domain registered through Blogger to a new registrar?
I'm preparing a client for migrating his Blogger blog to a self-hosting WordPress site. The client is currently running his Blogger blog using a custom domain name which he registered through ...
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Domain Masking / Cloaking?
I don't know whats the correct term for it, but what I'd like is to forward users visiting domain1.com to domain2.com without changing the URL in their address bar at all, IE. show contents from ...
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domain name suggestion tool (SEO friendly)
I'm looking to purchase a domain, and of couse the one that I really want is taken, what would be best way to find an alternative domain that would rate good for SEO?
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One domain, multiple IP addresses
I have a domain-name, and I want to host the website on two servers. One server is located in Europe and one in Asia. How can you route European people to the European server and Asian people to the ...
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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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Domain Transfer Protection - need advice
I am about to purchase a domain name for a bit of money. I do not personally know the person who I am purchasing the domain name from, we have only chatted via email.
The proposed process for the ...
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How to make google analytics report on two domains as though they are one site?
We have a main site that Google analytics is currently running fine on (www.ourcompany.com). We have a page that is technically part of the site (same design, etc.) but is hosted on another ...
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How to forward a “domain.com” to “www.domain.com”?
I am using GoDaddy for my domains. Lately I've noticed that none of my domain.com addresses are mapping to the server correctly. I used "Forward" option from Domain Manager and forwarded it to ...
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Selling/Generating Revenue from Unused Domain Names
I have a domain name which has a relevantly top searched keyword in it. I have not used this for over a year but I plan on doing so soon. Where is the best place to put it up for auction or see if ...
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How to move a website and domain name without experiencing downtime for emails or site?
Okay, I have a pretty complex problem, so I'll get right to it. I'm a designer who built a new website for my client. Their old site is hosted at GoDaddy, as well as their email. Problem is, the ...
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Is all data about a domain name provided to a TLD registry by the registrar visible on Whois?
I am trying to understand more about how the domain registration process works between the registry and the registrar. My question is when a domain name is registered by a registrar such as GoDaddy, ...
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The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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Need advice on 301 redirect from hyphenated domain to
I have been an online service since 2005 and have gained some good ranking on Google and other search engines.
My domain name is for example is: www.smart-service.co.uk.
I have recently got hold of ...
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Nameserver problem
I recently bought a new VPS, and I was trying to set private nameservers in my domain cPanel.
I went ahead and added 4 A records:
ns1.mydomain.com - points to my IP
ns2.mydomain.com - points to my ...
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Website Registration Date
I recently registered a website : cinematrailers.net.
I was aware that this domain was expired ( registered in 2007 until 2011)
My question is when I go to view the registration date on this domain, ...
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Home pc as server
My dns A-record point to my home PC IP that most of the time is down. Does this fact can cause any troubles with my registrar or there is nothing to be worried?
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How do I check if a domain is blacklisted before buying it?
I found a domain which I'm interested in buying from another person (not a registrar or premium domains site) and I am not sure how to find out if it is blacklisted.
I checked http://www.archive.org/ ...
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How to find the records for domain name purchased today and in past? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I access domain registration (whois) history?
How to find the records for domain names purchased today and in past?
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Domain masking (and simple page links)
How do you set up the domain (Im using godaddy) to mask the server url but to append the sub-page link.
Im thinking something like the wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/something (or, if it would ...
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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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Transfer websites and domains to new server
We have currently around 40 websites and 80+ domains/sub-domains in a shared 1&1 hosting package, and we just acquired a managed dedicated server with 1&1 as well.
Now it's time to start ...
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Google results show .info domain instead of .com
I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the site runs from MyDomain.com .
This is a cpanel based ...
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Keywords in domain name [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could I buy a domain name to increase traffic to my site like this?
Let's assume we have a generic website "MyWebsiteAboutGamesAndThings.com". We discover that a lot of ...
