The first step to creating your web site is to
register a domain name. The domain name is the name that people will type
into the address bar to find your site. e.g my domain name is Arpanetbd.com.
Choose a Domain Name:
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Register your Domain Name Network Solutions, and Register.com are
the most established domain name registrars, but many others have competitive
prices and offer essentially the same services. You'll want
to look at several different companies in order to get the best value
for your money.
If
you expect to have your website for a while, you can usually save
money by registering for multiple years at once
In
general, your name, email and mailing address will be made available
to people who ask for it. Many services will sell you private
registration (where only they have your name and address) for an extra
fee. I recommend either doing this or setting up a P.O. box
to receive any junk mail related to your site.
Support: you want to know that the company you've registered with
will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week if you run into a
problem
Domain forwarding. If you are registering the .net, .org or
other domains, domain forwarding lets you automatically forward those
addresses to your site
Account
management tools: you don’t need anything fancy here, but it should
be easy to move your domain to another host if needed
