Registering A Domain Name For Beginners
By Steve Gobin
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If you want a website based on your name, your product or your project, or if you want an e-mail address that reflects you, you first need to register a domain name. Registering A Domain Name For Beginners will tell you everything you need to know before, during and after the registration process.
Steve Gobin is an Internet and customer support professional with more than 13 years of experience in the domain name sector.
Steve Gobin
I wanted to write something since I was a student and even did but left the book project on side as indeed studying was taking me most of my time. I have now been working in the internet domain name sector for over 13 years and, based on my experiences in assisting domain name registrants, I got the idea to write my first book, Registering A Domain Name For Beginners. Of course I have ideas for the next one and I even have written a project for a fiction in French but one thing at a time. Now it's time to promote my book.
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Registering A Domain Name For Beginners - Steve Gobin
REGISTERING A DOMAIN NAME FOR BEGINNERS
By
Steve Gobin
SMASHWORDS EDITIONS
Registering A Domain Name For Beginners
Published By Steve Gobin on SMASHWORDS
Copyright ©2012 by Steve Gobin
Cover design by Olof Nordling
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Table of Content
Chapter 1: I want a domain name
- Choosing your domain name
- Which Top Level Domain to choose?
- Is the name I want to choose available?
- Am I eligible for registering the domain name I want?
- Diacritical signs and non-Latin characters
Chapter 2: Registering the domain name
- Registering a gTLD domain name
- What about ccTLDs?
- How to choose the right registrar?
- Resellers
Chapter 3: Contractual rights and obligations
- Agreements
- Alternative second level domains
- Alternative roots
- Pre-registrations
- Whois
- Privacy and Proxy services
- Whois Data Reminder
- Data Escrow
- Registrant Rights and Responsibilities
Chapter 4: From registering to using
- Checking the registration
- Using the domain name
- Protecting your account
Chapter 5: Renewing your domain name
- Has the renewal been processed?
- After the expiration
- Domain Name Life Cycle
- Add Grace Period (AGP)
- Fake Renewal Notices
- Drop Pool
Chapter 6: Updates, transfers and registrant changes
- Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
- Changing the registrar of a ccTLD domain name
- Changing or removing the reseller
- Bulk Transfers
- Changing the registrant
- Changing the domain name account
- Secondary market
Chapter 7: Something goes wrong
- My reseller or registrar does not fulfill its obligations
- How can ICANN help?
- Problem with a Registry Operator
- Bankrupted or gone into dust
- Transfer problems
- Payment
- Inaccurate Whois records
- Unsolicited contacts from fake registrars
- Disputes resolutions
- Uniform Rapid Suspension
Chapter 8: Whois statuses
- Server status codes are set by the registry operator
- Client status codes are set by the registrar
Chapter 1: I want a domain name
You already have an e-mail address but you would like it to have your own family name after the @ sign rather then the name of your provider. You also have a profile on a social network website, where you have uploaded your own piano performance but the URL to reach it also bears the name of the social network platform. You want an Internet presence that reflects who you are. Therefore you want to register a domain name.
Choosing your domain name
The first step you have to take is to choose what you are going to register as a domain name (your name, your product, your nickname or anything you like).
A domain name is composed of at least 2 parts, which are separated by a dot (.
), for example google.com or yahoo.co.uk. The left part is the word or combination of words you want to register as a domain name. The right part is the Top Level Domain (TLD). You may sometimes find 1 or more additional dots in between with a Second Level Domain (2nd LD) and sometimes Third Level Domain. The fundamental difference between the left part on one hand and the TLD or 2nd LD on the other hand is that you are (more or less) free to choose what will be the left part while you will have to choose the TLD (and 2nd LD when applicable) amongst a list of existing TLDs (and 2nd LD).
Which Top Level Domain to choose?
There are 2 categories of Top Level Domains: country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and generic Top Level Domains (gTLD).
Every ccTLD corresponds to a country or territory as described on a list of country codes that is maintained by the International Standardization Organization (http://www.iso.org/iso/ country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/country_names_and_code_elements.htm), with the exception of .eu, the ccTLD for the European Union.
As for generic Top Level Domains, they rather correspond to a type of registrant (e.g. .net), a type of service (.mobi) or geographic area (.asia). There are currently 2 kinds of gTLDs: sponsored and unsponsored. Unsponsored gTLDs are open to everybody while sponsored ones are intended to a specific use or group. There currently exist 22 gTLDs but a new procedure (which will be further described in this book) has been put in place with the purpose of enabling the creation of new gTLDs. We expect that the first new gTLDs will be up and running within 1 to 2 years.
A list of all existing TLDs is available on http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db. If we only consider the TLDs in Latin characters (this chapter also gives information about domain names with non-Latin characters), they are easy to recognize as indeed every ccTLD has 2 characters while every gTLD has at least 3. But it is not the only difference between both categories. This book will explain the other differences as well.
Is the name I want to choose available?
Each TLD is operated by an organization that runs the registry of this TLD, which is a database with the list of all domain names registered under the TLD together with their technical parameters. Another responsibility of the operator is to set the rules and procedures that govern registrations under that TLD in accordance with the applicable local legislation. If you want to register a domain name under a specific TLD, you will have to get familiar with these rules but before taking the burden of reading them, you should first check if the domain name you intend to register may be registered and is available for registration.
The list of existing TLDs on http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db includes for each one a link to the contact details of the corresponding operator, including, if existing, its URL. Most of the listed websites include a domain name search engine or availability lookup tool that will