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Domain Name Question

Originally posted by: LoKe
How does a host aquire a domain?

Say someone wanted....
www.breakdown.com
How does the host get that name?

When you go to pages like this, who sets up those pages? Who's hosting that domain?
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breakdown.com was bought by someone (an advertiser), just like every other domain.

If the domain is available (unregistered), you can buy them from namecheap.com, godaddy.com, etc. If it's already registered, such as in this case, you need to contact the website's current owner about buying it from him/entity.
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
What I mean is, where would a place like namecheap or godaddy get the domain? Do they just do a whois and contact the owner?
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If it's an available domain, they can just book it as they're ICANN accredited registrars.

If it's taken, they can't technically sell it to ya.

I hope I'm understanding your question right.
 
Originally posted by: George P Burdell
breakdown.cc and breakdown.in are available
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:thumbsdown:


if it ain't a dot com an org or at a stretch, a dot org, it's too much work for people to remember unless they have a business card.

international domains are acceptable though...tk, mx, ch, uk...


m0n0.ch/wall/ kicks ass though😀
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
I checked GoDaddy and the site DT posted, but I can't seem to check if breakdown.ca is available or not. O_O
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It's taken. Try to avoid .ca domains, they cost something like $30 a year to register, compared to the $8 for a .com
 
Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
Originally posted by: LoKe
I checked GoDaddy and the site DT posted, but I can't seem to check if breakdown.ca is available or not. O_O
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It's taken. Try to avoid .ca domains, they cost something like $30 a year to register, compared to the $8 for a .com
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Wow. O_O
Why so much?
 
Originally posted by: LoKe
Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
Originally posted by: LoKe
I checked GoDaddy and the site DT posted, but I can't seem to check if breakdown.ca is available or not. O_O
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It's taken. Try to avoid .ca domains, they cost something like $30 a year to register, compared to the $8 for a .com
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Wow. O_O
Why so much?
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Did a bit more looking and they go down to about $13 a year depending on who you use. .ca domains go through CIRA (http://www.cira.ca/en/home.html) which charges each registrar $8.50 a domain, compared to the ICANN which charges $6. There also appears to be a lot bigger of a markup on .ca domains as they're significantly less popular.
 
Plug a few key words into name spinner and it will offer some suggestions.

Last week I was on Skype with another AT'er trying to think of a domain, after about 70 different tries ... we finally found one which was not registered. Wow that took a while 🙂
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Plug a few key words into name spinner and it will offer some suggestions.

Last week I was on Skype with another AT'er trying to think of a domain, after about 70 different tries ... we finally found one which was not registered. Wow that took a while 🙂
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BreakdownOnline
BreakdownProject
BreakdownSite
BreakdownWorld
BestBreakdown
YourBreakdown
ChemicalBreakdown
FailuresBreakdown
FirstBreakdownCover
AnalysesBreakdown
TheBreakdownHere
BestBreakdownCover
 
ChemicalBreakdown looked good to me too. Might even change my site name to that.

So, it's a toss up between ChemicalBreakdown and BreakdownOnline

+2 for CB.
 
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