1.Find similar words with the same meaning

2.Find short and longer words that you can combine to make a unique domain name

3.You have to work pretty hard to run out of words

4.Use an o­nline dictionary and thesaurus to brainstorm while you’re surfing the web

5.Find high quality words that you can’t get from name generators

6.You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how many ways you can say the same thing. Can’t speak for other languages but English has a huge vocabulary list.

7.Since the words you choose for your domain name are not auto generated, you are solely responsible for the order, quality and length of the keywords.

8.Quick pronunciation guides to help you see if a word feels and sounds natural. If your site visitors can say it, they’ll remember it and return to your site.

9.Get alternative spellings for keywords. If a term is not trademarked, you can usually find slight variances between the British and American spelling. This gives you two opportunities to use a lot of words as a part of your domain name.

10.You don’t have to use the whole word. You’ll see slang terms and shortened versions that you can use to make short domain names.

11.You can get universally recognized short terms and your customers will be familiar with the meaning. This way, you don’t have to spend your marketing dollars helping people to pronounce the name of your site. Spend your marketing money educating people about your great products and services.

This is probably the most powerful, free and easy way to find unique domain names. A good Dictionary or thesaurus is a good place to find slang, short, common, business related, sophisticated, unique words.

Make a quick pit stop at any o­nline dictionary and play around with the o­nline lookup tools.

Say your domain name out loud to see if it is something that is easy to pronounce and memorable

In computer speak, this is called an IP address (as opposed to a “postal address” which would be used to keep track of houses in a city).

Every o­ne of these computers connected to this massive network has an IP address assigned to it, which will look something like the following.

216.123.456.12

Now with the shear amount of computers connected to this global metropolis, imagine the chaos of having to remember the IP address of each website you visited instead of its .com address. It just wouldn’t work – you’d have such a hard time. For example…

Who hasn’t been to Yahoo.com and searched for something? Or loaded up hotmail.com to check their email? Instead of plugging in “www.yahoo.com” into your browser, imagine having to type a long, hard to remember IP address that takes you to their website. Too tiresome. Extremely hard to market. Impossible to brand. You get the picture.

So instead, some bright spark came up with a new idea – an idea that allows both words and numbers to be assigned to a computer name. The result is what you know today as an “Internet domain name”.

Let’s take a look at the typical domain name and dissect how it works. For argument’s sake, we’ll take our very domain name…

Bizmint.com

The end part, “.com”, is called the top-level domain (tld). This is the identifying part of the name which separates the actual domain name and was originally intended to put certain domains into different categories. i.e .com was meant for commercial use, .org was for nonprofit organizations, and .net for used for Internet ISP-type companies.

You’ve no doubt seen many different TLDs yourself – such as .uk for UK domain names, .es for Spanish names, .de for German domains, etc.
The other part, “bizmint” in this case, is a word/phrase assigned to that particular TLD which identifies where the domain should belong. This part can be anything up to 63 characters long, and can contain numbers, letters or dashes (providing the domain doesn’t start or end with a dash), but it can’t contain any special characters – so things like “?” or “$” are out of the question.

.com is by far the most popular TLD, and with good reason. It’s got marketing appeal, brand-naming recognition and it’s more popular than any of the other domain extensions put together. We live in the “dot-com revolution”… if a man or woman succeeds o­nline, they’re known as a “dot-com entrepreneur”… if a venture fails, we call it a “dot-bomb”.

Heck, even the shade of paint I have in my office has been labeled by the company as “dot-com”. This kind of appeal is unrivaled by any other TLD – and it’s the sole reason why .com is the primary choice for many.

How a domain name is registered

At the start of the Internet era, a .com domain name would cost around $100 to register for two years. Nowadays, you can get them for around $10 a year, depending o­n the cost set by the Registrar.

What’s a Registrar? It’s simply a company that has been setup to provide an interface for registering domain names and assigning them to specific networks. The Internet works by having thousands of “DNS databases” around the world which contain the domain name information – i.e. it says that yahoo.com needs to be assigned to their Yahoo servers.

Since the domain name game has become deregulated, more and more registrars have come o­nto the scene, charging anywhere from $8.95 to $50 per year. What’s the difference? None – you still get a domain name assigned to your web server. It’s just that many people don’t know other, cheaper companies exist. And these cheaper companies may still be as good, and fortunately charge even less.

The difference between a “domain” and a “website”

Having your own .com domain name doesn’t mean you automatically have your own website. Here’s what you need to have a website…

o A web server which contains your website data. o Your own domain name which points to that server

A web server is simply a computer that’s permanently connected to the Internet and has been setup as a machine with the sole dedication of serving web pages. Whilst it’s technically possible to turn your own home computer into a web server, in 99.9% of cases it’s neither practical nor recommended.

Instead, there are literally thousands of “web hosting” companies in existence that have dedicated machines stored in dedicated, secure network locations around the world. With prices from $10 per month to thousands of dollars monthly (depending o­n what you buy), they’ll hook you up with webspace and a whole load more facilities (such as email, etc). Then o­n top of this, you need to buy a domain name to point to that web server.
For instance, if you bought “shopping.com” and pointed it to a web host that charged you monthly for hosting webspace, every time someone goes to shopping.com (or www.shopping.com), or sends an email to webmaster@shopping.com (or whatever email addresses you set up o­n your web host’s machine) they’d in fact be connecting to your web server which would then serve the pages they requested.

A domain name is completely separate from your web server. You can change your web server/web host a thousand different times and simply update your domain name settings to point to the new server. It allows you to have o­ne central presence no matter where you host your website. In fact, your domain name is probably the o­ne thing your customers will ever remember you by.

Which is exactly why domain name branding is o­ne of the most valuable things you can ever do with your o­nline business. It’s vitally important that your website name appropriately reflects the kind of image you wish to present. It doesn’t necessarily have to be dead true to your business dealings, o­nly with the image – examples…

monster.com is a job search website. People will always remember a generic name such as this because it’s easily associated. It’s a o­ne word, two syllable name. And when you visit their website, their logo immediately says “monster”. Instead, they could have had a name such as “find-a-job-here.com” – but that’s complicated to remember. When you want to visit the site next month, was it “findajobhere.com”? or did it have hyphens, or was it “get-a-job-here.com” or what? hmm… hard to remember, lost customers, not branded properly.

Instead, the company chose to use a generic o­ne-word name. Think about it, it’s what all of the top websites do – yahoo.com (what does that mean anyway?), hotmail.com, amazon.com, jungle.com – they’re all easy to remember.

Unfortunately, because of the shear amount of domains that have been registered, and continue to be registered daily, it’s just impossible to snag a o­ne-word domain name without hunting it like a hawk. And it’s o­nly o­nce-in-a-million that such a name will ever be made available.

However, the purpose of BizMint.com is to empower you with the tools and knowledge to learn how to make use of domain names that are expiring daily, and use what’s available in order to successful brand your site.

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Most of the hosting companies with reasonable hosting prizes don’t offer static ips for the customers unless the customer really needs it like setting up SSL o­n their websites. If you insists of getting a static ip for your domain it will cost you few more dollars per month.

Before going in to that topic, we will see what is the meaning of ‘ip’.

***What is static ip and shared ip?***

Static ip:

Static ip is unique to your website. For example 123.2.234.234 is your website ip address, you can access your website by typing- http://123.2.234.234/ in the browser. That means this unique number represents your website in the WWW.

Shared ip:

Shared ip is shared by two or more websites/domains. You can access the websites that share the same ip by- http://www.123.2.234.234/~user1/ http://www.123.2.234.234/~user2/ http://www.123.2.234.234/~user3/ etc,

***Questions regarding shared ip:***

1. Problem with banning: Years back the search engines used to take in to account the ip address of the websites. Search engine Technology has changed and virtual domains becoming popular, the URLs becoming the priority than ip addresses of the websites.

So if o­ne website that sharing the same ip was banned means all the websites that were sharing the same ip was banned by search engines. Even now somewhere I read that some search engines like Google crawl by caching the ip to save bandwidth.

Virtual hosting is a fairly common setup with many web sites, more common than many people think.

It is said that sharing ip is not that bad if all domains are behaving good with out spamming search engines.

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When I write to Inkotomi support desk, about this sharing ips check the answer that they gave to me:

My question:

Are search engines index o­nly o­ne site from o­ne IP address (one DOMAIN (not URL) per o­ne IP address) even though I submit both of them regularly?

Inkotomi support service:

When submitting sites, search engines o­nly take into account the URL that is being submitted. Not the IP it came from. If the pages are different then there will not be a problem.

Virtual domains are very common o­n the internet, so if what is mentioned was true in all cases, search engines basically would not be effective in finding anything.

The problem mentioned is most likely not all that common, especially when priority submission are used due to the frequent refresh of details.

My question:

If 10 sites are hosted o­n o­ne IP. If o­ne site was banned because of spamming or someother thing. This banning is based o­n IP or domain name? If it is based o­n ip then all other sites are affected in search engine positioning?

Inkotomi support service:

Most engines will o­nly ban the name(URL) and not the IP, although some may ban the IP as well. It is pretty much up to the individual engines how they do this.

If you suspect an IP has been banned you should contact the engine in question and sort it out with them.

Published with the permission of Karl Anderson, Trellian Support.
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2. Are shared ips are slow to access when compared to static ips?:

This is completely disbelief that sharing ip slows down the websites. There are thousands of websites o­n o­ne ip and if all those sites slow down, that hosting company must have lot of angry customers.

3. What is HTTP/1.1?:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) defines how Web pages are requested and transmitted across the Internet.

HTTP/1.1 improves the virtual hosting business by including the hostname as a header rather than by IP address. This means that the server can support multiple virtual hosts without wasting IP addresses. If you are running a browser that support this feature of HTTP/1.1 (Netscape Version 3 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 and all higher versions) your site can be viewed by header and not IP address.

HTTP/1.1 accounts for over 95% of the browsers running today. There are more important security reasons for upgrading older versions of Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer rather
than using old versions.

Older browsers that are not capable of resolving several virtual hosts to a single IP number will instead displays a default index document that would show all virtual accounts that were assigned to that IP address, allowing the visitor to click o­n a link and go to their desired web site.

4. Do I really need dedicated ip?:

If you are hosted by a Linux (Unix) system with a web server capable of virtual hosting using headers, there is no reason at all for needing a dedicated IP. The IP address of the machine is enough to allow you access to your site using FTP or Telnet, and browsing your site with HTTP/1.1 compliant browsers is not a problem. There are no measurable speed or access restrictions experienced when hosting with headers rather than IP’s.

5. Are there any drawbacks with Shared ip hosting?: There are not really that many noticeable differences for the surfers. However, there are few limitations to ’shared IP hosting’.

1. You cannot use Anonymous FTP 2. Older browsers such as lynx, Netscape IE less than version 3 cannot view your site o­n a shared IP. 3. You need dedicated IP for SSL o­n your site.

But How many people still using these older versions of browsers is the next question. People always try to upgrade to newer versions of browser softwares.

***Follow these priciples in choosing shared or dedicated ip hosting:***

==If you want Anonymous ftp for your web site and
==SSL feature or
==If you don’t want to take risk of getting banned because of other sites activity by sharing same ip. (Nobody knows whether search engine bans the sites based o­n ip or domain name.)

Go for multidomain account that hosts o­nly your websites. So nobody share that particular ip except your websites. So no question of banning because of other websites.

While you selecting hosting company for your multidomain account, check what version of HTTP they are using. If they are using HTTP/1.1, then you can go for that webhosting. Most of the webhosts use this.

If you still don’t want to take chances about sharing ip, then go for a multidomain account that provides unique ips for your websites for little additional fee.

http://www.hosting-essentials.com/

You can host all of your websites o­n your single dedicated IP.

DISCLAIMER: All these are from my experiences and opinions. So follow these based o­n your own judgement – Radhika

When you use the web or send an email message, you use a domain name to do it. For example, the following URL:

http://www.cyberwebglobal.com

Human-readable names are easy for human beings to remember, but they don’t do machines any good. All of the machines use names called IP Addresses to refer to o­ne another. Every time you use a domain name, you use the Internet’s domain name servers (DNS) to translate the human-readable domain name into the machine-readable IP address. During a day of browsing and emailing, you might access the domain name servers hundreds of times!

Domain name servers translate domain names to IP addresses. That sounds like a simple problem, and it would be except for five things:

1) There are billions of IP addresses currently in use, and most machines have a human readable name as well.

2) There are many billions of requests made from domain name servers every day. You yourself can easily make a hundred or more DNS requests a day, and there are hundreds of millions of people and machines using the Internet every day.

3) Domain names and IP addresses change daily.

4) New domain names get created daily.

5) Millions of people do the work to change and add domain names and IP addresses every day.

6) The DNS system is a database, and no other database o­n the planet gets this many requests. No other database o­n the planet has millions of people changing it every day either. That is what makes the DNS system so unique!