When a domain owner fails to pay the renewal fee for a domain name it goes through an expiry process before eventually becoming available to the public to register again. The whole process can take several weeks.

* Initially, services to the domain are suspended although the owner may then pay the renewal fee to reactivate the domain name.

* Next, the domain enters a redemption phase where the original owner can pay a redemption fee (higher than the normal renewal fees) to reclaim the domain.

* The third step is that the depend is marked as “pending delete”. At this point, the domain can no longer be reclaimed by the original owner, however it alerts anybody interested that the domain is about to become available again.

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Lots of people have the same question, “Why Do I Have To Pay For A Domain Name?” Shouldn’t domain names be free to acquire in some kind of a first come, first serve basis? Well, for one thing, nothing in life is for free. Specifically, when it comes to websites and domain names, you have to pay for one to ensure your own success and uniqueness.

When you purchase a domain name you are really purchasing the right to a specific website address for a specified period of time. You are not the owner indefinitely, and you’ll need to always renew your domain name address to ensure it stays with you. You purchase your domain name from one of many possible domain name registrars, which certify that you are indeed the owner of the address.

If you didn’t have to buy the domain name there would be chaos as everyone would try to claim the same addresses and nobody would be able to find anything on the Internet. Buying your domain name is like staking a claim to a specific location. Think of it as taking on a lease for a physical store location if you had a brick and mortar business.

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Establishing your business online
today is so much easier than it was 10 years ago. Web hosting is very affordable and getting your website up and running using the tools that most web hosting companies provide is equally as easy. Web hosting companies usually give you more than enough space to do what you need to. Unless you are trying to duplicate Youtube, you won’t have any problems with the amount of space required. Several web hosting companies now even offer “unlimited” space on the server. Although this is theoretically impossible, web hosting companies are all looking to beat their competition and this is one of the ways that they do this. Bandwidth is the amount of files that are uploaded and or downloaded from the webserver on a regular basis. If you have a video on your website that is 10MB and you upload it once and it gets downloaded 99 more times, you’ll have 100 times at 10MB each or basically 1 GB worth of bandwidth (1000MB). One of the things I look for with an affordable web hosting company is how their technical support is and where their technical support is located. I prefer a company whose employees speak the same language as I do without accents I have difficulty understanding. (more…)

Today, it’s progressively harder to get your website noticed by your prospective customers. Unless your company has thousands of dollars to spend on advertising and search engine optimization.

Now, there is a most effective and long lasting Marketing Strategy to get noticed and attract millions of search engine visitors.

The choice of your Domain Name is the most important Marketing Strategy you’ll ever make to help you to rank higher on thousands of Search Engines and attract millions of visitors each year.

The truth is, websites with Generic Keywords in their domain name WILL list higher (in the first 20 listings on top Search Engines) than the most optimized websites and is easier to find on top Search Engines.

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