http://www.choosewebaddress.com Choosing a Domain Name - Best Practices Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:53:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/does-your-business-need-tel-domain/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/ideal-url-structure/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/domain-forwarding-mechanisms/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/why-do-you-need-private-domain-registration/ 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, ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/whois-lookup-what-why-why-not/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/forward-and-reverse-dns-lookups/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/understanding-web-forwarding/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/domain-parking-what-why/ 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 Uniform Resource Locator. It ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/how-domain-names-promote-web-identity/ 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 ... http://www.choosewebaddress.com/for-beginners/web-address-gateway-your-website/