There is nothing quite like owning a DotCom domain name. For a start it's a helluva lot cheaper than buying a shiny new car, and the annual maintenance, i.e the renewal fee, is minimal.So, what do you do, you decide on a niche that you want to market, and you set about looking, on www.namecheap.com for example, for a domain name that isn't already taken. You know that you want a DotCom, or maybe a DotOrg, etc. and you know you want it all without hyphens because you've been informed that it is b

Oh yes, it's a stalker's paradise, the internet. I know your name, your full address, your telephone number and your email address..... well, at least I would know it, if you have registered a domain name and not made it private, using the services of a company like Whoisguard. I did a little research. I checked some of your profiles. I noted the names of your websites. I did a search of the Whois database, and there it was; all the above information, because some of you hadn't protected you

I recently received this email from www.namecheap.com, which for those of you with unassigned Whoisguard subscriptions is self-explanatory. Up until very recently, it was possible, if for example you have several domain names, to buy multiple Whoisguard subscriptions and assign them to specific domain names when required. Namecheap have decided to stop offering this facility and now it appears that the Whoisguard subscription (which protects your privacy from the general public, i.e. your na

Hi Guys and Ladies, For those of you new to buying a domain and setting up a website on it, let me tell you that with the help of www.namecheap.com, Wordpress and Wealthy Affiliate it is SO easy. I registered a domain with Namecheap, paid for it, transferred the hosting (DNS) to WA, chose a Wordpress theme (by far the longest part) and wrote my opening (About Me) page, chose a temporary header image and published the website for the world to see in less than an hour! OK, you have to be a pr

I was reading about one of our fellow WA'ers today who wanted a specific DotCom for his niche, but it was taken so he had to 'settle' (my word, not his) for a DotOrg. The exact same thing happened to me about twelve months ago, with a niche I wanted. In my case I wanted a short, easy to remember, highly relevant domain name for my website, which I am only now ready to develop. The one word name I wanted was a play on words that also described that the sales of the specific product I have in