Domain Name Registration for a New Enterprise: Tips to Have a Catchy Domain Name

2009-01-17

According to some studies, there are more than 60 domain names being registered worldwide per second. No doubt, it is very important to be creative and choosy in case of domain name selection. Being short, logical and accurate does make the domain name catchy and memorable....

Network Solutions Updates Web Hosting

March 2, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain name registration and Internet services provider Network Solutions (networksolutions.com) announced on Wednesday that it has introduced three new Web hosting packages designed to provide complete solutions for individuals and businesses.

Omahosting.com Launches in Nigeria

February 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Omahosting.com (omahosting.com) announced on Thursday it is now available in Nigeria and all its states. With offices in the US, UK, and now Nigeria, Omahosting is able to provide affordable hosting services.

Netfirms Adds Plans, Drops Domain Price

February 9, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Netfirms (netfirms.com) announced on Tuesday that it has released its 2005 line of hosting plans and lowered its price for domain name registrations to $4.95 per year.

TJR Networks Discounts Web Hosting

January 6, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- New Zealand-based Web services company TJR Networks (tjrnetworks.com) launched on Tuesday, announcing a 25 percent discount on all of its hosting plans.

VeriSign Releases Domain Name Data

December 1, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Internet security company and domain registry operator VeriSign Inc. (verisign.com) announced on Wednesday tiat it has released the Domain Name Industry Brief for the third quarter of 2004, noting the registration of 5.1 million new domain names during the quarter, the highest quarterly growth in Internet history.

SecureSpeed Offers Managed Web Hosting

November 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider SecureSpeed (securespeedhosting.net) announced on Monday that it had introduced managed Web hosting solutions for small and medium sized businesses, offering domain name registration, Web site hosting, email hosting, Web design, online shopping carts and SSL certificates.

Register.com Offers E-commerce Hosting

November 23, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain name registration provider Register.com, Inc. (

PW Registry Auctions .pw Sponsorship

November 9, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The PW Registry Corporation (pwregistry.pw), public trustee of the .pw top-level domain, said on Tuesday that it is auctioning sponsorship rights for nearly 50,000 second-level .pw domains.

Register.com Board Member Resigns

November 3, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain name registration provider Register.com (register.com) announced on Tuesday that Richard D. Forman, co-founder and former chairman and CEO of Register.com, has decided to resign from the company's board of directors. Following his resignation, the company's board elected to reduce its size to eight directors.

RegisterGator Offers Reseller Hosting

October 19, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- RegisterGator.Com (registergator.com), a provider of domain, hosting and Web products software, announced on Monday that it had launched The-Domain-Reseller.Com, a complete domain name registration and hosting reseller program.

UH Hosting Offers Free Domain

October 15, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- UK-based Web hosting provider UH Hosting (uh-hosting.co.uk) announced on Thursday that is offering free domain name registration with the signing of a Web hosting package.

VeriSign Speeds Up DNS Updating

September 9, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- VeriSign (verisign.com) announced on Thursday that it has officially implemented "rapid updates," an enhancement to its .com and .net domain name system servers. The enhancement, available free or charge and first unveiled in July, speeds up the way VeriSign's .com and .net registries handle updates, allowing users to change the addresses their domains point to in near real time. According to VeriSign, rapid updates helps domain registrants to launch Web sites more quickly and to experience greater continuity in service when switching Web hosting providers or modifying their domain name registrations, and see those changes reflected within minutes.

Web Host Omnis Network Adds New Plans

August 20, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Omnis Network LLC. (omnis.com), announced on Friday that it has introduced new hosting plans to significantly increase the value of its offering. The new plans, Unix Hosting Plus and Windows Hosting Plus, include 1GB of storage space, 500 email accounts, and 100 GB of data transfer.

NationHosts Prices Domains at $4.99

July 7, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider NationHosts (nationhosts.com) says it is offering domain name registration and transfers for $4.99 per year at domains.nationhosts.com. The price is available for at least the next year and comes with a free month of Bronze package Web hosting, valued at $4.95 per month.

Rodopi Offers Domain Name Registration

June 30, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Rodopi Software (rodopi.com), an operations support system and back office automation software developer, announced on Wednesday that it has introduced a new domain name registration module for the Rodopi OSS and EasyOSS Web based IP service automation products.

NameSecure Releases Hosting Service

June 16, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Domain registrar NameSecure (namesecure.com) announced the launch of a new Web hosting service on Tuesday, calling the move a response to the requests of its domain registration customers.

Tucows Debuts Email Defense Service

Tucows' email defense service is based on the technology of MX Logic's (mxlogic.com) Email Defense Gateway, Service Provider Edition. Tucows selected MX Logic in February, based on evaluation and testing that showed MX Logic to be highly accurate with spam detection and filtering.

Pipex to Acquire Host Europe for £32M

Pipex said it expects the acquisition to give it "additional focus" on the hosting and managed services market, bringing its current service offerings more balance. The company also anticipates that integrating Host Europe's Web hosting operations will help it achieve additional cost savings.

SBC, Yahoo Bundle Web Hosting Tools

The companies said the bundling of services allows customers to enjoy cost savings while helping them establish an online presence.

RegisterFly Offers New.net Domains

December 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting and domain registrar RegisterFly.com (registerfly.com) announced on Wednesday that it is offering domain name registrations for New.net (new.net) domain extensions. Pasadena, California-based New.net is the registry for descriptive domain extensions such as .sport, .club, and .family.

VeriSign Completes Sale of Network Solutions

November 26, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- VeriSign Inc. (verisign.com) said late Monday that it has completed the sale of Network Solutions (networksolutions.com), its domain name registration business, to Pivotal Private Equity.

NetBenefit, NTL Home Sign Partnership Deal

November 21, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- NetBenefit (netbenefit.co.uk), a UK-based provider of Web hosting services, said today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with NTL Home (ntlhome.com), a UK-based Internet service provider, to offer domain name registration services to NTL Home's customers through ntlworld.com, NTL Home's Internet portal.

EV1Servers Records 500 Percent Domain Growth

November 20, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Texas-based EV1Servers (ev1servers.net), formerly known as Rackshack, said on Wednesday that its number of registered domains has increased by over 500 percent during the last two months. According to the company, it recorded 10,000 domain name registrations in the first month following the launch of its $5 domain registration service. Since then, EV1Servers said it has registered over 40,000 domains bringing the total count of registered domains to 53,000.

Hostingplex Unveils Upgraded Hosting Plan

November 6, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hostingplex (hostingplex.com) announced this week that it has upgraded and reduced the price of its "Pro" shared hosting package. The new price is $7.45 per month and includes 1000mb of Web space (up from 350mb), 50gb (up from 10gb) of bandwidth transfer, unlimited e-mail accounts and various other features.

Hostway Launches DomainsForYourBaby.com

October 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Chicago-based Web hosting provider Hostway (hostway.com) launched yesterday DomainsForYourBaby.com (domainsforyourbaby.hostwaycom), an online service that allows parents to register a domain name for their newborn infants. According to Hostway, the domain registration will cost $6.95 a year and includes a free "under construction" page and access to a Web-based control panel. Domain forwarding and domain locking is also included.

Network Solutions Sold for $100 Million

October 16, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Phoenix-based Pivotal Private Equity (pivotalgroup.com) said today it has signed an agreement to acquire control of Network Solutions (networksolutions.com), a provider of domain name registration, e-mail, Web hosting and other Internet services. The firm will acquire Network Solutions from VeriSign Inc. (verisign.com), the Mountain View, California-based parent of Network Solutions, for a reported $100 million.

Verio Re-organizes Hosting Partner Programs

October 1, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Verio (verio.com) today unveiled a channel reorganization initiative that will combine the company's separate partner programs serving the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and large mid-market to enterprise segments under the viaVerio name.

Network Solutions Introduces Consumer Advocacy Site

September 30, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Network Solutions (networksolutions.com) today introduced a new consumer privacy advocate Web site (internetprivacyadvocate.org) that details precautions customers can take to protect the personal information associated with their domain name registrations.

Network Solutions Settles FTC Charges

September 25, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said yesterday that Network Solutions (networksolutions.com), the domain services division of VeriSign, has settled FTC charges that its deceptive marketing practices unlawfully tricked customers into transferring their domain name registrations to the company.

Yahoo! Small Business Launches Merchant Solutions

September 24, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Yahoo! Small Business (smallbusiness.yahoo.com) yesterday launched Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, three new e-commerce packages that integrate e-commerce functionality with Yahoo! Web Hosting services (webhosting.yahoo.com) in a single solution.

Generator Malfunction Shuts Alabanza Sites

September 18, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting automation firm Alabanza (alabanza.com) was affected by a generator malfunction in the building that houses its offices and data center last night, leading to two hours of downtime.