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Webivate will consult with you to Register a Strategic Domain Name that best represents your business brand and maximizes your internet investment.

With up to a million new domain registrations every month, many business owners have a difficult time finding a quality name that best expresses their core service philosophies. Let Webivate consult with you to discuss a domain name designed to target your prospective customers. We will help you choose a name that will establish your internet identity, and brand your business with all of the popular social networking sites like; Facebook™, YouTube™, and Twitter™.

Purpose of a Domain Name

An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources such as computers and web servers.

When a user enters a unique domain name followed by its extension into a web browsers address bar, they are automatically pointed to the web server of which your website is hosted based on DNS settings. It is also important to remember that websites can have more than one domain name assigned to it. Think of domain names as doors to a house, the more you have the easier it is to access your information.

Buying & Selling Domain Names

The business of reselling previously registered domain names is known as the domain aftermarket. .COM Domain extensions are also one of the most valuable extensions in the Domain after market. Various factors influence the perceived value or market value of a domain name.

As of 2004, according to Guinness World Records and MSNBC, the most expensive domain name sales on record were:

Business.com $7.5 million in December 1999

AsSeenOnTv.com for $5.1 million in January 2000

Altavista.com for $3.3 million in August 1998

Wine.com for $2.9 million in September 1999

CreditCards.com for $2.75 million in July 2004

Autos.com for $2.2 million in December 1999

Popular Domain Name Extensions & Meaning

The domain extension .com is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet, and was the first extension ever created. It's name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for networks of general commercial character. The first Domain Name ever registered was Symbolics.com

The .com extension was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense, but is today operated by VeriSign, and all registrations are processed via registrars accredited by ICANN.

.COM

.NET

.ORG

.US

.INFO

.MOBI

.ME

.BIZ

The domain name .COM is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for networks of general commercial character.

The domain was one of the original top-level domains in the Internet when the Domain Name System was implemented in January 1985, the others being .edu, .gov, .mil, .net, .org, and .arpa. It has grown into the largest top-level domain.

The domain name .NET is a generic top-level domain used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from network, indicating its originally intended purpose for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies.

However, restrictions were never enforced and the domain is a general purpose name space. It is still popular with network operators, and is often treated as an alternate to com.

The domain name .ORG is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) of the Domain Name System (DNS) used in the Internet. The name is derived from the word organization. It was originally intended for non-profit organizations or organizations of a non-commercial character that did not meet the requirements for other gTLDs.

Although anyone in the world can registera .org domain extension without actually owning a domain, it is often practical to use this extension for non-profit and profit organizations.

The domain name .US is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States, established in 1985. Registrants of .us domains must be United States citizens, residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence in the United States.

The domain name .INFO is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet, The name is derived from information indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation.

The .info TLD was a response to ICANN's highly publicized announcement, in late 2000, of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains. The event was the first addition of major gTLDs since the Domain Name System was developed in the 1980s. The seven new gTLDs, selected from over 180 proposals, were meant in part to take the pressure off the com domain.

The info domain has been the most successful of the seven new domain names, with over 5.2 million domain names in the registry as of April 2008.

The domain name .MOBI is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from mobile, indicating its use by mobile devices for accessing Internet resources via the Mobile Web.

It is financially backed and sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, Telecom Italia Mobile, Orascom Telecom, GSM Association , Hutchison Whampoa, Syniverse Technologies, and Visa, with an executive from each company serving on mTLD's board of directors.

The domain name .ME is a top level domain replaced the .YU (Yugoslavia) domain previously used by Serbia and Montenegro. In addition to declaring .me independent of .yu, a new .rs domain was deployed for Serbian use.

The .me domain names must be at least 3 characters and at most 63 characters in length, excluding the extension. Exceptions to this rule were granted to WordPress, for its url shortener WP.me, and to Facebook, for their short url fb.me

The purpose of the .ME domain extension is to position itself for global use, and become a personal namespace.

The domain name .BIZ is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for registration of domains to be used by businesses. The name is a phonetic spelling of the first syllable of business.

The .biz TLD was created to relieve some of the demand for domain names in the .com top-level domain, and to provide an alternative for businesses whose preferred domain name in com had already been registered by another party. There are no specific legal or geographic qualifications to register a biz domain name, except that it must be for "bona fide business or commercial use".

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