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What Is Domain Name?
A domain name is your address on the web. It's the information that customers type in to find your website. It is what comes after the www. in www.domaindale.com (our web address) the word "domaindale" is our domain name. A domain name can be only numbers or only letters or combination of letters and numbers up to 63 characters (there are some small exceptions with some of the extensions). The official domain name extensions are .com, .net, .org, .info, There are also other extensions like .us .tv .biz .uk and a lot more, but our intension is mostly on top level extensions that mentioned before in bold.
What Is Registry?
A registry is a company or organization that maintains a centralized registry database for the Top-Level Domains. Currently there is only one Registry for every Top-Level domain, .com, .net and .org. NSI Registry maintains this Registry.
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What Is Registrar?
A domain name registrar is a company, accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or by a national ccTLD authority, to register Internet domain names. These "retail" companies are often distinct from the "wholesale" domain name registry operator. These are the guys who take care of domain name registration, web hosting and other web related services.
What Is Registrant (the owner of a domain name)?
The legal owner of a Domain Name is an individual or company whose name is listed at the time of registration. The owner or registrant remains the owner of a Domain Name regardless of whether the administrative contact has been changed since then. The only way to legally change the ownership of a Domain Name is to undergo a Transfer of Domain Name.
What Is WHOIS?
There are different definition formats of whois, the best is a simple search on internet to get what that fits to your need.
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What Is WHOIS Information?
1- Registration Service Provider (Registrar):Any company (Registrar) who takes care of your ownership transfer of your new purchased Domain Name will automatically takes care filling in all of the 5 steps in this paragraph. If you purchase a Domain Name from an individual or company who is not authorized (legally) for Domain Name registration (legally introduce you as the new owner of a domain name) you have to find one of the authorized companies and ask them for ownership transfer. The ownership transfer procedure will be explained elsewhere. The ownership transfer must be done through the seller's service provider and buyer's service provider, also the buyer and seller can use same service provider (seller's) if the buyer has none during the purchase, except both parties live in different countries, in this case it is ok but not wise.
2- Domain Name:As described at the top of this page, your choosen word with extension (like this website's; domaindale.com)
3- Administrative Contact:Mostly the legal owner of a Domain Name (registrant) contact information appears here, sometimes in certain condition this might not be true due to a dispute over the domain name (like registrant hasn't paid for domain renewal and the expiry date has passed over), in such a case the contact information might be different until dispute is legally solved. See WHOIS Administrative Contact.
4- Technical Contact:The individual/company contact information who takes care of website maintenance appears here. See WHOIS Technical Contact.
5- Billing Contact:The individual/company who is in charge of financial activity of domain/website appears here. See WHOIS Billing Contact. NOTE: In most cases particularly for individuals or small companies all 3 Contacts (3, 4 and 5) information are the same. If registrant decides to let an individual or company takes care of the website maintenance (usually through a contract) then the Technical Contact information will be changed to contractor's name/address.
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Some Important Tips:
a) Every Registrar taking care of your domain name management or hosting services also creates an account for you, so you will be provided with a user name and password to be able to access to your account to update manage your Domain, in most cases you can use it to upgrade your Administrative, Technical or Billing contact information.
b) If the e-mail addresses associated to the administrative, technical or billing contact are no longer valid, registrant (domain owner) authorization is required to change the information. The owner must login to his/her account and update the e-mail addresses. With some registrars the contact info changes must be done through the registrar.
c) As a domain owner (registrant) always keep your contact information up to date, the cause of most disputes and troubles are because of lack of access to registrant.
d) Everyone can view the WHOIS information through WHOIS search. The registrant (domain owner) can hide the above information by asking his/her Service Provider (Registrar) to do that, in this case people can only see the service provider's (Registrar's) contact information and can only contact you (registrant) through them. For .CA domain names you can login to your CIRA account and turn ON or OFF the privacy option, if you you turn it on only your registrar info is visible and people can contact you through them.
e) The top-level domains like; .com, .net, and .org are available for registration (purchase) by any individual or organisations. You do not have to be a registered business to register a top-level domains.
f) You don't have to have an existing (running) web site or be a registered business to register (buy) a Domain Name. You can register a domain name at any time and start your online identity.
g) After you have registered your Domain Name and paid for it, it is reserved immediately. From then on, it is attributed to you and is not available for purchase by anyone else for the term of the registration.
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What do I need in order to register a Domain Name?
In order to register a Domain Name you will need to provide the following information:
1. Provide the following personal information for the Domain Name owner and
Administrative, Technical and Billing contacts.
a. First Name
b. Last Name
c. Email Address
d. Postal Address
e. Tax ID Number (depending of your country of residence)
2. Create the following (done by your Registrar, later you can change the password) to secure your Domain Name account:
a. Username and Password3. Provide your Domain Name Server (DNS) information which can be obtained from your website hosting company (Registrar)
4. Read and accept Service provider's (Registrar's) service agreement.
5. Provide your credit card and billing information for payment purposes.