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It’s like a “Land Rush!”

As a real estate broker for years, I had always dreamed of having the perfect properties to sell ~ and at the right prices. I spent a small fortune attempting to attract sellers, acquiring licenses, recruiting competent agents, maintaining nice offices, and then ~ to bring in the buyers ~ on advertising.

After being forced to retire from real estate by MS (Multiple Sclerosis), I finally stumbled upon the easiest properties in the world to sell that I’d ever seen: “Domains” in “Cyberspace.” Actually, a respected friend, who had never been in real estate, turned me on to it. Best of all, it didn’t cost me anything to set up my new business.

Okay, after a week I invested $10.00, but I got a domain name property to sell if I ever decide to. Like a land rush, people all over the planet are scrambling to stake their claims on the cyber landscape. I get a picture of homesteaders, in covered wagons stirring up dust, rushing to stake their claims for 160 acres. Everyone it seems wants their own website and once their personal names are gone, they can come up with other great domains, properties which will only appreciate ~ just like real estate.

I guess, some of us have to have been in other businesses to appreciate how really good a business that offering website domains is. Like in any legitimate enterprise, a good business owner should do everything that is possible to see that their customers are satisfied with the product. I can even let my buyers “Move in” for seven days Free to see if they like their new property. I could never do that in the real estate business.

No wonder that customers want to buy up some more “Cyberproperties.” It’s like a land rush except the homesteaders can stake their claims all over the world without leaving their computers. Click on the Hot Ride link provided in “Remarks” to find out more~without going to Russ’ website. Your access code is russmiles.

Remarks: Hot Ride link MY.ws ~ Russ Miles is a retired real estate broker and author of the thriller mystery novel, For Sale By Owners:FSBO. He maintains his website MilesBooks.com and writes FREE Reprint Articles which are used widely by ezine publishers and on the websites of other professionals. Comments to: MilesRuss@gmail.com. Russ invites you to visit his website.

Simply speaking, a domain name is a website address. For example, “city4u.com” is the address of the City For You, which is also the site’s domain name. In this example, http//www.city4u.com, i.e. the complete web address, is called the URL or Uniform Resource Locator.

A domain name has three levels. The first one is the “extension” part of the name, i.e. “.com.” The “extension” is known as the “top level domain” (TLD), comprised of generic (.com, .org etc.), country code (”.us”, “.uk” etc.) and infrastructure domains. The second level is “city4u.com.” while the third is “www.city4u.com.”

Before looking for your domain name, you should consider these factors. First, try to use your site’s name as the basis of your domain name as far as possible. If the URL contains your name, customers will easily find you. It is very tough to register a generic domain like biscuits.com as most of them have already gone. Equally difficult is getting ranked in the search engines. Better choose a domain like creambiscuits.com to reduce competition. It may be comparatively easier to register hyphenated names but the hyphens may be forgotten as well.

In case you find the .com or .co.in extension not available, consider instead the .net or .biz. If your domain name is already registered, contact the owner and ask if they’ll sell. In most cases a domain name will be free in the plural but not in the singular form. Although a short domain name is easy to remember, it is less likely to be available. A longer domain, however, can contain more keywords that are useful. If you find your preferred domain name not available, you can always try a prefix or a suffix.

You can find basic information about TLDs at ICANN’s Introduction to Top Level Domains, and information about country code TLDs from Root-Zone Whois Index. However, as there is no single database that lists the owners of all domain names, you will have to search a number of databases.

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