Domain Name Registration

Buy Domain Name

• Need unique domain name that describes your business
• Buy that from a registrar
• Over the years I bought from variety of registrars
• My favorite one is WhoIs
• Getting started
  
• Go to whois.com
  and
• Enter first choice in the search box
  • Over 171 million domain names registered in world
  • Odds are your favourite not available
  • First choice was webdesign.com
  • Not available
• WhoIs gave me a list of related domain names that were available
• Looked through all
• Found one that would fit in with my marketing scheme
• Chose freewebdesign.club
  and
  
  • Decided that website would be some sort of club
  • Web designers from all over the world could come and share information at no
    cost
• Clicked on the Select box beside freewebdesign.club
• Went through checkout process
• They tried to upsell me
• All I want to do is pay for domain name registration — nothing more
  
• Clicked on No thanks, proceed to checkout.
  
• (If it asks whether or not you have a PayPal account, say no if you want to pay with a credit card.)

DNS Tools

• WhoIs has DNS tools to help new domain name link to website
• Update the WhoIs name servers so that domain name will point to the Income Activator or whoever your web host is.
  

• Go to WhoIs and
• Either create an account or log into your account
• Go to the Jump to Domain panel
• Enter your new domain name

• Click box with the two tiny arrows
• Click on the Name Servers link
• Enter the two name servers: 
  • Of you are using Income Activator, they are ns1.admin3000.com and ns2.admin3000.com
  • Must be lower case
  • Click Update Name Servers button