| .com |
.com, .net., .org are
all three letter extensions after the dot )or Top Level Domains)
meant to denote the purpose the domains intended us.
Traditionally, .com denoted commercial uses
Nowadays, companies and individuals
have registered all three extensions to protect their domain name
and they are no longer restricted.
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| .net |
.com, .net., .org are
all three letter extensions after the dot )or Top Level Domains)
meant to denote the purpose the domains intended us.
Traditionally, .net denoted technology based companies relating to
the Internet
Nowadays, companies and individuals
have registered all three extensions to protect their domain name
and they are no longer restricted.
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| .org |
.com, .net., .org are
all three letter extensions after the dot )or Top Level Domains)
meant to denote the purpose the domains intended us.
Traditionally, .org denoted business charity or non-profit
organizations
Nowadays, companies and individuals
have registered all three extensions to protect their domain name
and they are no longer restricted.
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| Administrative
Contact |
The MOST important
contact. The Administrative Contact is considered the owner
of the domain and has the authorization to make changes to the
domain name registration contents.
For your protection, we recommend
that the actual domain name owner be listed as the Administrative
Contact listing a valid email address that you plan to continue
using.
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| Billing
Contact |
This is a separate point
of contact, if necessary, and will be responsible for
payment issues. Billing Contacts do NOT have any authority
to make any changes to your domain name.
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| Domain
Name |
A domain name is your
unique identity on the internet that references your website.
It is an easy way for humans to recall website addresses.
Whereas, computers don't understand words and letters in domain
names and can deal better with numbers, the computer translates
the domain name into strings of numbers called an ip
address.
Example: yourstorename.com
Also referred to as: url, www, domain name, internet domain name,
web address
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| name
server |
At least 2 name servers
are listed at the bottom of your domain name registration and
specifies the location of where your website is hosted via name
server Primary & Secondary Server Hostname and Primary &
Secondary Server IP Address. Name servers permits people to
get to your website address by recalling your domain name and not
by an ip address. The DNS provides an association between a
domain name and its IP Address.
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| parking |
Parking means that you
are registering a domain name before you have an actual website or
have immediate plans for using that domain name.
1-2-3-domain-names.com provides
FREE PARKING which means that you can reserve your domain name
using our DNS Numbers for NO additional charges or fees.
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| registrant |
The Registrant is the
person or entity who registers a domain name. This person or
entity holds the right to use that specific domain name for a
specified period of time, provided certain conditions are met and
registration fees are paid in full.
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| registrar |
A Registrar is an
organization that registers domain names over certain TLDS like
.com, .net, .org on behalf of a Registrant.
Some of the larger and popular registrars include: Network
Solutions and Register.com, but there are hundred of other domain
name registrars in the internet industry.
1-2-3-domain-names.com is an
OpenSRS Registration Service Provider and OpenSRS is a ICANN-Accredited
Registrar that is certified to register domain names.
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| registry |
The Registry is an
authoritative backend database or master list of domain names that
registrar's have shared access to. Each registrar writes new names
to a central registry database, from which the authoritative root
(essentially, a table of all domain names on the Internet) is
built.
The Registry is maintained by the
Registry Administrator who at this time is Network Solutions under
a government contract with the US Department of Commerce
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| Technical
Contact |
By default, the
technical contact that will be listed will be us because we are
responsible for your domain name registration issues.
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| whois |
WhoIs is a tool that
provides information about the registrant of a particular domain
name.
Internic updates the central WhoIs
database twice every 24 hours.
Click here to go to
1-2-3-domain-names.com WhoIs database...
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