Posts Tagged With: register
· November 1, 2007 at 10:04 am · Hot Web Topics
It is pretty easy to get private domain name protection on your domain name through your domain name register. This way you can hide your personal contact information from the public. One really haunting trend though I have seen on a lot of web sites is copying the whois information on domains to display on other web sites.
One service that does this is AboutUs.org.
I found out about this the other day by using DomainTools.com to do a whois lookup. I was checking to see if a domain name my friend registered was privatized and it was in the who is search but About Us still had the information listed. How sneaky!
Another offender is Alexa.com. I really hope this does not become a trend. The whois domain name search is already a big enough problem as it is - we don’t need even more places to check to make sure our private domain name information isn’t being shared with the public at large.
· May 24, 2007 at 5:00 am · Hot Web Topics
Call it curiosity or call it boredom.
If I owned my own cable news network, I could call it an investigation. When you tell somebody who doesn’t know about tech and Web-like things - you tell them to check out “digg” on the Web - they are going to first try “dig.com”. They aren’t going to find what they want though. Dig.com goes to a Disney Web site.
Diggg.com is also registered, although it does not go anywhere. It is owned by some guy in Norway? You can go look at the whois domain name information for yourself.
How about digggg.com? It is taken.
Work fast though, Diggggg.com is free for registration from what I could find.
· October 19, 2006 at 5:14 am · Online Tools, Web Hosting
Alright, I have seen my fair share of domain name searching tools. The newest animal to enter the pack is Register.com’s free advanced domain search tool. Yeah, I think they could have come up with a catchier name as well. So how does it work?
First you have to tell it what domain name you “wish” to have, and your first and last name. That seems simple enough right? Then you either go down the route of business or personal. Next you have to tell them what this Web site is going to be for. Is it going to be personal? Is it going to be for your family? Is it going to be for a celebration?
Moving on, you can enter a couple of extra keywords to be tossed in for kicks. Last but not least, you enter in your location - such as a town name or area you live in. After that is all said and done, hit “Find my Domain Name” and you are given a big long list of ones you can choose from.
All in all I think this is a pretty nice tool to help beginners walk through the process of picking the perfect domain name. The good side is it gives you a lot of results to choose from and an easy “drag and drop” so you can pick as many as you want before you buy. The bad news is that around the end of the search results, they start tossing in domain name choices that had nothing to do with your data you gave them.
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