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WebAdmin 101 Domains

And now we know – Why eBay courted ProPay?

Keith Koenig of PayPal’s merchant services team has added a revealing post to the PayPal official blog today. Announcing the introduction of the PayPal MagneSafe Secure Card Reader, which looks like, and operates like, the portable card reader ProPay introduced recently. OK, I could be critical and cynical about ulterior motives etc. however I’d prefer [...]



Using Software To Grab An Excellent Expired Domain

In practice, grabbing a good expired domain name is a cumbersome and difficult exercise. Grabbing an excellent expired domain name not only needs an extra effort but also a quick reflex and lightening action to beat the online competition. To make things easier and to quickly find expired domains, you will need to find a way or method that helps grow in the expired domain name business.



Targeted Expired Domain Traffic is Powerful Success Tool

On an average, more than 20,000 domains get expired everyday, and this figure is slowly increasing day by day, as more numbers are starting to expire almost on a regular basis. The expired domain name market is also becoming a lucrative proposition to people, who wish to set up a lucrative online business. Apart from selling expired domain names, you can also use expired domain traffic, either to sell it or use it to develop your web site.



Essential & Practical Tips to Buy Expired Domain Names

If you are looking to buy expired domain name, you may find it very relevant and productive to carry out a thorough research to know more details about the expired domain that you are intending to buy. When you buy expired domain name, you are involving a third party and an administrator (usually the registrar) in the process of transaction. Thus, you will need to be very careful in how you are carrying out the process of buying the expired domain.



WEB ADMIN 101B-8 – Domain Renewals

A domain URL looks a little something like this: www.yourdomain.com. When people try to find your web site, they must first type your web domain name URL onto the address bar of the web browser that they are using. Many domain name URLs expire after a certain amount of time, and this is why you must file a renew domain form with your web domain host service provider.



WEB ADMIN 101B-7 – IP Address Domains

Every web domain name has its corresponding IP address domain name. Each and every computer that logs onto the World Wide Web is given a very unique address that is like a telephone number, in that it is made up of long strings of numbers. These numbers are known as the IP address domain. Many people have an IP address domain, but they don’t have the actual domain URL. How can you find the domain name through the IP address domain



WEB ADMIN 101B-6 – Domain Transfers

Why would most individuals, or businesses, need to transfer a domain name? A domain name transfer may be necessary for a variety of reasons. Transferring domain names may be necessary if the domain name has been stolen, replicated, or perhaps it is not original enough and it is causing confusion with web visitors.



WEB ADMIN 101B-5 – Expired Domains

Expired domain names are those whose domain registration license is expiring, meaning that the domain owner will need to renew their domain name, or else it will be open once again on the domain registrar market for anyone else to buy it. Of course, those who operate famous or very popular domain names will automatically renew, but there are other domain names that may change hands regularly, for many different reasons.



WEB ADMIN 101B-4 – Domain Buying & Trading

To buy a domain name can sometimes be a risk if you are buying it as an investment. Here is a brief overview of the various pros and cons to buying a domain name for the purpose of reselling at a profit, rather than for use on a web site you intend to build and operate.



WEB ADMIN 101B-3 – Free Domains

You could find a free domain name to build and launch your own web site. Free domain names are now widely available, making it completely possible to launch an original web site on your own, quickly and easily, at no cost other than the time to design and build the site. Free domain names are freely available if you know where to look. To find free domain registration, you simply….



WEB ADMIN 101B-2 – Domain Search

The World Wide Web presents us with a wealth of information – a whole world of web pages. The World Wide Web is so large that it can sometimes be difficult to find the web sites that you need. One of the easiest ways to find web sites is by using domain search (lookup) techniques. Here are some tips on using domain search (lookup) techniques to find the web sites that you need to find.



WEB ADMIN 101B-1 – Naming Essentials

Another factor to consider is to check all similar domain names & see what’s on them. Otherwise, if you inadvertently pick a URL that happens to be similar to a porn site you will find yourself blocked by major Adult filters such as Kaspersky. And believe me, all the natural search rankings & adwords in the world are no use if people can only see a blank page when they click.



WEB ADMIN 101B – Domain Acquisition

The next module of the BuildaSkill WebAdmin series (WebAdmin 101B) recaps a few basic essentials about domain names, and then focuses on the various methods for acquiring your own domain name or names, and includes a section looking at how you can make a business revenue stream out of buying and selling domain names, with or without attached websites and other services built onto the domain name.



WebAdmin 101-A10 – WhoIs & WhoIs Protection

You must have accurate address information in Whois? This opens up your private address and phone number information to the public. One company operating a protection service against data-mining of the public Whois system is WhoisGuard. And to show the relevance of such a service, I’ll use their PR statements to explain what they do. There are other companies out there providing the same type of service, but this is the one I’m familiar with….



WebAdmin 101-A9 – Domain Registrant

WebAdmin 101-A9 – Domain Registrants 9. Domain Registrant What does it mean to be a domain registrant?  Becoming the domain registrant of a specific URL means that you are officially in charge and the owner of the domain URL.  Domain registrants carry certain privileges in that they get to decide what the future of the [...]