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What's in a Name?
Your website name is one of the most
important features of your website and picking a domain name can be one of the most important first steps you make when launching a new web-venture. Picking a name that reflects your business name or the
products or services you provide is not always as straight-forward as it may appear. Factors to consider when selecting a
new domain name include:
- Is your business name (or some variation thereof) available as a .com?
- Is your chosen domain name easy to remember?
- Is your chosen domain name easy to type (or is it 30 characters long with dashes in it, for example)?
- Does your chosen domain name conflict with some other company name or established brand? Be very careful here!
Once
you have thought of a few possibilities for a domain name for your website, it's then time to check
it's availability. We can help you with
searching for a name or you can search one for yourself by clicking here.
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Top-level Domain Name Registration
(.com/.net/.org/etc.) Domain Name Registration is the process of reserving the right to use an Internet domain. Rights to an Internet domain are typically reserved in periods of 1 to 10 years. Green County Spotlight LLC offers two options for registering and managing your domains. They are:
- Self-administered Domain Registration and Management
- Assisted Domain Registration and Management
Self-administered Domain Registration and Management
If you are interested in managing the details of your own domain, including domain setup and nameserver management, you can create an account on our Internet storefront and purchase your domain immediately. To access our domain services storefront, please click the following link.
Purchase Domains and Related Services Directly
Assisted Domain Registration and Management
If you just want to get your domain registered without having to earn a technology degree, we can handle this for you for only $7.99 per year (plus the cost of domain name registration). This service includes domain account administration, nameserver updates as needed and technical support for domain related issues. To take advantage of this service, you will need to contact us directly with your billing information and desired domain name. If you want to check availability of a domain name first, you can always use the search tool on our Internet storefront and contact us when you've found an available domain for your website.
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Private Domain Name Registration
All domain registrations require complete and accurate contact information (including email address) for the domain registrant, the domain administrative contact, the domain technical contact and the domain billing contact. This information is publicly available in the Whois database making domain registrants and administrators susceptible to unwanted marketing contacts, spam and other abuses related to the exposure of personal information.
Private registration allows you to retain all rights to your domain registration while hiding this information from the public eye by assigning a intermediary company to act as the proxy owner of the domain. With private registration, the intermediary's contact information will appear in the public Whois database in place of your own private information (filtering domain related spam in the process). Green County Spotlight LLC offers private registration services through the company Domains By Proxy® and it is easy to add this service to your domain name registration.
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Domain Name Transfers
There are many possible reasons for wanting to transfer your domain name registration to Green County Spotlight LLC. Perhaps you just want to work with a local company or perhaps you want to take advantage of our lower renewal prices or would like to bundle all your web-related services with one company. Whatever your reason, we can help!
When you transfer an existing domain to Green County Spotlight LLC, you retain all existing time left on your current registration and we'll add an additional year to your registration to make it the equivalent of a domain name renewal. It's just like a renewal with the exception that it actually costs less.
Transferring Your Domain
Green County Spotlight LLC offers two options for transferring and managing your domains. They are:
- Self-administered Domain Transfer and Management
- Assisted Domain Transfer and Management
Self-administered Domain Transfer and Management
If
you are interested in managing the details of your domain transfer directly (i.e. domain transfer, setup, nameserver management, etc, you can create an account on
our Internet storefront and transfer your domain directly. To access our domain services storefront, please click the following link.
Purchase Domains and Related Services Directly
Assisted Domain Transfer and Management
If
you just want to get your domain transferred and set-up and keep it maintained without having to earn a
technology degree, we can handle this for you for only $7.99 per year
(plus the cost of domain name registration). This service includes
domain account set-up and administration, transfer request generation, domain set-up and nameserver updates as needed.
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Domain Forwarding
Domain Name Forwarding just might be the best, hardest-working domain bargain going!
Now
you can put any domain name to work, whether you've built a site for it
or not. Just select a domain name (or names), add forwarding, and any
visitor who types in that name will be redirected to the existing site
you designate.
Forwarding is especially useful if you have a
site with a long, complicated address. With forwarding you can register a
simpler domain name (easily done using one of the less common top level
domains, like .BIZ instead of .COM, for example) and then forward it.
:et's
say the name of your business is easily misspelled, you can use
forwarding by purchasing a domain names your customers can remember,
then instead of renaming your business so people can find you on the
web, simply forward the alternate
domain name to your to your business website and people can then get
there by typing a name that's easy to remember and spell. You can also
register names based on common misspellings of your name and forward
them to your real domain as well. Domain forwarding is a FREE service
included with all domains purchased through Green County Spotlight LLC.
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