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Hello everyone ! My name is Michael and it is my pleasure to belong to the Wealthy Affiliate community! I am a husband

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I know the .com domain is available; why is it not showing up? Thanks

How do you know that the .com domain is available?

If you enter the domain name at the site who.is, you'll get a confirmation as to which domain names are already registered.

Followed that advice Bob. Thanks so much for your time sir!

You're welcome -- It's easy to assume that lack of any response to a URL means that the domain name is available. In many cases, though, the name is registered but has no website associated with it.

Are you sure the .com is available - even though its not being used for a website someone else might still own the domain name. If you go to https://whois.icann.org/en and enter the domain name this will tell you if it is registered by someone else

Did that, thanks Evie, shows it is available, not showing up when i type in search box (at Rubix domain search). just happened with another domain i just registered; wsnt there first time i searched, third time i searched it was there and i selected it. ??? strange

Hey, the SiteRubix is a different domain extension. You can't have the .com and SiteRubix.
Make sense?

That must have been it. I am a premium member (just signed up) so perhaps it was only showing me the FREE extensions that are available. At any rate I have all of my .com's for now (they did eventually show up as options)!!! Only thing is, I thought registering domains was free (up to 25) if you were a premium member. Thanks again and Good Morning to you too :)

Oh, your hostings are FREE, not the domains.
Sounds like you're all set!
You're very welcome and CONGRATS on going Premium!

Thank you :)

hosting is free (and to be honest its a good bargain as hosting can be so expensive) but domains are controlled by a central registrar.

It isn't available.
Domain extensions such as .net and .org are perfectly okay to use.

Thanks for reply upsgirl!

Good morning!!! You're welcome!

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Domain names, searches are resulting in .org options only?

Domain names, searches are resulting in .org options only?

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Getting Started
Updated

I know the .com domain is available; why is it not showing up? Thanks

How do you know that the .com domain is available?

If you enter the domain name at the site who.is, you'll get a confirmation as to which domain names are already registered.

Followed that advice Bob. Thanks so much for your time sir!

You're welcome -- It's easy to assume that lack of any response to a URL means that the domain name is available. In many cases, though, the name is registered but has no website associated with it.

Are you sure the .com is available - even though its not being used for a website someone else might still own the domain name. If you go to https://whois.icann.org/en and enter the domain name this will tell you if it is registered by someone else

Did that, thanks Evie, shows it is available, not showing up when i type in search box (at Rubix domain search). just happened with another domain i just registered; wsnt there first time i searched, third time i searched it was there and i selected it. ??? strange

Hey, the SiteRubix is a different domain extension. You can't have the .com and SiteRubix.
Make sense?

That must have been it. I am a premium member (just signed up) so perhaps it was only showing me the FREE extensions that are available. At any rate I have all of my .com's for now (they did eventually show up as options)!!! Only thing is, I thought registering domains was free (up to 25) if you were a premium member. Thanks again and Good Morning to you too :)

Oh, your hostings are FREE, not the domains.
Sounds like you're all set!
You're very welcome and CONGRATS on going Premium!

Thank you :)

hosting is free (and to be honest its a good bargain as hosting can be so expensive) but domains are controlled by a central registrar.

It isn't available.
Domain extensions such as .net and .org are perfectly okay to use.

Thanks for reply upsgirl!

Good morning!!! You're welcome!

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