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A .TEL domain is mainly used to store contact information like your name, phone numbers, email and web addresses and any other business details that you would like to share with your customers and business associates all over the world.

According to the inventors of this TLD, the .TEL domain is like a phone book on the Internet that helps you reach out to a worldwide audience. Read more »

What’s the ideal structure for a URL? Should it be long or short? The only advantage of a long URL is that it works in all hosting environments. But there are quite a number of disadvantages that make long URLs unpopular  especially with search engines and visitors.

More than the length of a URL, it is its stability that really matters. A stable URL structure is always advisable to avoid problems later. Here are a few ways to achieve a stable URL. Read more »

In an earlier post on domain forwarding, Savitha had pointed out why one would need such a service. Once you read that article you will realize that URL redirection is more of a necessity than an optional add-on in today’s competitive market. It is all about being found on the web – and being found ahead of your competitors! You can never afford to take a chance and lose potential customers due to a “hard-to-remember” URL or typos/spelling errors in the URL.

Domain forwarding is known by different names in the industry. While URL redirection and web forwarding are common variants, domain aliasing, domain mirroring, frame redirection and domain repointing are other names of this service that are lesser known. Read more »

When you buy a domain name, your contact information needs to be submitted by your registrar to the WHOIS directory. Since the WHOIS directory is publicly accessible,  personal information like your name, phone number, address and email id become freely available to spammers, telemarketers and other kinds of offensive characters.

You can prevent this from happening by opting for private domain registration. With private registration, alternate contact information will be used to register your domain thereby protecting you from all kind of threats. Some registrars also provide an email address that will filter messages for spam before forwarding them to your preferred email account. Read more »

A DNS lookup returns an IP address or a domain name depending on whether it is a forward or reverse lookup. Thus if you have a domain name you can find out its IP number and if you know the IP address you can look up the corresponding domain name.

Nonetheless, when a DNS lookup is done with a particular intention such as finding out the owner of a website, the process does not end with the return of an IP address or domain name. You will need more specific information such as the name and contact details of the domain holder or the location of the IP address. This is where the WHOIS database comes handy. Read more »

In the cyberworld every domain name is associated with a unique IP address. While the domain name is human recognizable (alphanumeric), the IP address is machine-readable. An IP address is a set of four numbers (octets) separated by dots.  The Internet’s domain name system (DNS) maps the domain names to corresponding IP addresses to serve web pages to Internet surfers.

Within a particular top-level domain there are millions of domain names and each of these corresponds to a unique IP address. Similarly, Read more »

Web Forwarding or URL Redirection is a mechanism that allows you to point multiple domain names to a single web site. This means you can make all your domain names appear to look like one web site and drive all your visitors as well as search engines to your main web site. Read more »

When you register a particular domain name but do not have a full-fledged website attached to it, you are parking that domain name. It is like reserving the name for future use. However, you don’t have to input the details of your host nameserver at this stage. Domain parking also lets you hold on to multiple domains and point them to a single hosting account. This allows visitors to reach your site by entering parked domain names in the browser. You can park a domain name for Read more »

Though most of us harp on the advantages of a good URL strategy, not many actually know what a URL is. For a change, let’s take a look at the basics before moving strategically. A URL, which is rightly your business’s Internet address, is expanded as Read more »

Do you know that one of the first things a search engine indexes in a website is its web address? Your web address or URL is like the gateway to your website. If search engines aren’t happy with your URL, chances are they’re going to turn their backs on your website leaving good content, great design and all other SEO efforts wasted. Read more »