I Might Get A Yahoo Domain. Will You?

Hello guys...

After learning all about Yahoo Domains and after posting about Yahoo Domains and educating you all on Yahoo Domains, I myself might get a Yahoo Domain!

What do you think guys? Is it worth? Shall I spend the money and get it? I think I should.

Are any of you going to get a Yahoo Domain?

I would like to know!

Thanks a lot guys...
Sahil

Yahoo Domains; Something We All Want To Know About

First of all; here is the website; http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/

From their website;

Domain Name Features

• 24-hour phone and online support
• A starter web page » View sample
• Domain forwarding
• Domain locking
• Private domain registration » Learn more
• Complete DNS management

You can also buy Webhosting from Yahoo but that will be in the next blog post.

Private Domain Registration

Did you know that anyone — including spammers and telemarketers — can find your contact information just by looking up your domain name online?

That's right. The Internet's governing body, ICANN, requires that every domain owner's name and contact information be listed in an online database. Unfortunately, many solicitors regularly go through this database to gather contacts for marketing campaigns.

Now you can keep your contact information out of the public eye using Yahoo! Private Domain Registration.

How Does Private Domain Registration Work?

• When you sign up, our partner Melbourne IT updates your registration listing with generic contact information that points to Melbourne IT's offices.

• Whenever someone looks up your domain and tries to contact you, Melbourne IT receives the call, email, or letter and screens the information on your behalf.

• Melbourne IT forwards prescreened communications to you, so you can reply as you see fit.

See how your contact information looks with and without Yahoo! Private Domain Registration.

How Much Does Private Domain Registration Cost?

Yahoo! Private Domain Registration is available for just $0.99 per month with Yahoo! Web Hosting (three-month term), Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, or Yahoo! Business Mail plans, or just $9.00 per year with Yahoo! Domains or Yahoo! Custom Mailbox plans.

TOS for their domains; http://order.sbs.yahoo.com/sbs/tos/domain_tos.html

They are offering domains as low as $1.99. So go and get your domain now.

Next blog post: Yahoo Webhosting

An Intro To Domains

Welcome to my first blog post on domains. Yahoo domains. Actually this post is just an introduction to domains. So to start off, I am going to quote the definition of domains as given to us by the famous site Wikipedia.

In computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is managed according to some common property of the members or within a common administrative boundary. In particular, the term is used to describe the regions of administrative authority within the Domain name system used for the Internet (cf. DNS zone).

Domain names are used in a variety of contexts for identification, reference, and access to Internet resources. They can appear as components of Web sites' Uniform Resource Locators (URL, 'Web-address'), e.g. www.wikipedia.org, electronic mail (e-mail) addresses after the customary '@' separator from the user's name, or as any other part of a syntax that describes an access method to a device or service in an IP network.

Domain names are created out of a naming space and methodology that was first defined by Paul Mockapetris in IETF publication RFC 882 and RFC 883 (1983) and used in the first expansion of the ARPANET, a predecessor of today's Internet. The model prescribed a tree-like structure of named nodes starting from an unnamed root node (cf. DNS root zone) that was only designated by a full stop (period, dot, "."). The complete domain name of each node is the string of names of nodes leading to the root node, each separated by a dot. The sequence is written from left to right with increasing order of scope, e.g., node-d.node-c.node-b.node-a. When the full name path of a node is specified, the domain name is said to be fully-qualified (cf. Fully qualified domain name). This condition is often, particularly in the technical aspects of DNS), indicated explicitly by appending a dot at the end of the name (to indicate the root domain).

The DNS methodology confers a unique name to every resource or service participating in the domain name system. This name is referred to as the domain name of a device or Internet host. However, not all nodes in the tree system denote a specific device, rather they are parent labels of an entire collection of subordinate nodes. Such nodes are the domains of the Internet. They represent the spaces of autonomy that are delegated by a group of service providers, called domain name registrars.

These registrars are authorized and accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the name and number systems of the Internet. In addition to IANA, each top-level domain (TLD) is maintained and serviced technically by a sponsoring organization, the TLD Registry. The registry is responsible for maintaining the database of names registered within the TLDs they administer. The registry receives registration information from each domain name registrar authorized to assign names in the corresponding TLD and publishes the information using a special service, the whois protocol.

In this context a domain name is sometimes referred to as a 'product' sold by domain name registrars. However, the rules of assignment specify that no legal ownership is conferred with such transactions, only the right of exclusive use and the authority to the name space. Once assigned, a domain name becomes part of the pool of registered domain names and is no longer available for use by anyone else. Colloquially, marketers incorrectly refer to domain names as "web addresses", however, a web address is actually a fully specified World-Wide Web resource locator, such as http://www.example.org, actually pointing to a web site.

So now that you know somewhat about domains... I am going to go on further and give you some examples of domains;

1. Yahoo
2. Google
3. Microsoft

The domain of Yahoo is http://www.yahoo.com.

What is .com? A quote again from Wikipedia

.com (commercial) is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used on the Internet's Domain Name System. It was one of the original top-level domains (TLDs), established in January 1985, and has grown to be the largest TLD in use. It was originally administered by the United States Department of Defense. The DoD contracted its maintenance to SRI International, which managed it as DDN-NIC (alternatively known as SRI-NIC or simply "the NIC" ^[1]) at the domain nic.ddn.mil. Beginning October 1, 1991 it was contracted to Government Systems Inc. (GSI), who sub-contracted it to Network Solutions Inc.

Like .com there are others as well, like .net, .org, .info, .biz etc...


So that is all for today's introduction to domains and .com

I will be back tomorrow with more!

What Is This Blog About?

Hello guys...

I am here to tell you what domainsandyahoo.blogspot.com is going to be about.

Have you ever heard of domains? Well that's exactly what I will be touching upon in this blog.

Specifically... Yahoo Domains. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/

I will update this post with more information tomorrow.