How to register a domain name
by Paul Flyer
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One of my favorite domain registrars is Moniker. Feel free to use your own registrar of choice. I will be using screen shots from Moniker as examples.
On the Moniker website, I enter my desired domain name in their Advanced Domain Search window.
Clicking “search now” returns all the possible registrations available for “lasagnaworldâ€Â. Each registrar will behave a little differently at this point. Moniker automatically checks all the available names. Also, before checking or unchecking any of the domain names, make sure the service has finished searching all available names. Once the seraching is complete, THEN move forward with selecting/deselecting. )I didn’t wait once and while I deselected a bunch of TLD’s, a bunch of others still showed up on my Shopping Cart.) For my “lasagnaworld†name I unchecked all the other suffixes and left the .COM version checked.
Once all the desired domains have been selected, click add to cart
Moniker brings up another page of options. Most registrars do this in some form. They are either trying to sell other services (like web hosting) or addon features to your domain name. The only option worth considering is Domain Privacy. Moniker’s price of $4 for a private domain registration is relatively inexpensive compared to other registrars.
Choose Domain Privacy by checking the check box. Clicking Add Cart will lead you to a screen with more services. Click the continue button until you get to the final shopping cart screen which will look like this:
From here the process is like a normal ecommerce transaction. Once complete you will have your own domain name!
This post is excerpted from my Domain Name Handbook: Choosing, Registering and Managing Domain Names.
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