Name Your Gaming Blog!

May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

When you have a website, there are a few things that you will inevitably need. One of the most important is your domain name. The domain name of your website or blog is how you will be known. Because of this, it is crucial that you put time and effort into finding the perfect domain name for your site.

When considering a domain for your gaming blog or site, you will want to consider all of your options. For example, think of games like poker, roulette, and more. Incorporate some of these into your domain name if possible. You want to be able to tell your readers or customers exactly what your website or blog is about when they read your domain name. Leaving them guessing is the worst thing you can do.

You want your domain name to be short and to the point. You also want to make sure that it is easy to read and easy to spell. Using things like dashes and numbers can be detrimental, as people will easily forget these items. Think about the websites that you go to and remember. They generally have a domain name that sticks out. Because of this, you want to have something that sticks out as well.

Keep in mind that it can be difficult to get your first choice of domain names. You may have to play around with wording, and it may take some time to find the perfect domain name for your blog or website. Don’t give up though. It will come, and you’ll be ready to start discussing gaming in no time!

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Professional Gambling as a Career

May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you’re interested in becoming a professional gambler by playing games like poker, it’s important that you don’t dive in blindly. Although poker can be fun to play for recreation, playing as a full-time job either online or in a live casino takes times, dedication and discipline.

It’s crucial to learn the game of poker before you play. Study the game by reading books and magazines and begin playing on a regular basis at a friend’s house or a local casino. Then, ask yourself if you win often enough that becoming a professional poker player is even an option.

Instead of jumping into being a full-time poker player, it can be best to initially work part-time and play poker part-time. This will give you some steady income in case your poker career does not take off. In addition, it’s important to have a savings account before you begin playing poker for a full-time income. Remember that you will be living a life similar to any contract worker or new business owner; you will no longer have guaranteed income each week.

If you decide that you want to become a professional gambler by playing games like poker, it is vital to question if you can handle the stress that comes along with this career. The possibility that you could play poker all day and lose money instead of earning money is very real. It is also now your responsibility to pay your taxes on time, quarterly, which is something that you may not be used to if you have always held a traditional office job in the past.

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Hidden Costs of Domain Name Bookings

March 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Most people who have never bought a domain name do not know what it actually costs to get a domain name. People new to registration believe that the initial cost of $5 or $7 is all that they have to pay for the domain name and it is going to belong to them for life. Once they start clicking forward to buying these domain names, will they realize that it is actually not as cheap as they thought it would be. Be prepared and be on the lookout for marketing tactics that the registrars’ websites use to push people into spending more.

So when you go into a website, you will be asked to enter the choice of the domain name that you like to book. Once you enter the domain name, you will be given a choice of TLD’s such as .com, .org, etc. The .com is an international domain name prefix and is used by major companies and corporations. You can go for .com if it is available, but if it is not, you can go for .net and .co. Now if you have chosen one, lets say xyz.com and press buy, you will be given with other options like xyz.org, xyz.net for a discount. This offer seems irresistible and most fall for it. The two combined might cost $15.

Next you will be asked for how many years would you like to book you domain name. For one year it cost $15 but it by default books it for five years for $45. After this you will be shown with other offers like email, site building, deluxe/luxury offers, security socket layer protection, ect which can bring the total easily to $2000 dollars.

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Things to Do and Not to Do

March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The choice of domain names has swelled to numerous dot prefixes that all look important. A newbie to internet domain name booking will be overwhelmed by the choices of top level domain that are available nowadays. The booking websites suggest that the various potions will tell you to buy all the top level domain names. Many registrars go as far as offering a discount on these combined domain name. But the problem here is that if one domain name is available on one site, the same is not available on the other site. There different top level domain names currently are .com, .org, .net and others. There is no way that a new entrepreneur can find a domain name that is simple and short and easy to remember.

You have to remember that choosing huge names such as takealookatmysite.com will be rarely remembered. Keep the name of your website short and sweet so that people remember and do not have to use their bookmarked links to visit you site every time. Let’s face it, we never bookmark a site unless it’s very interesting. Try and restrict the name of your site to three words. See if you can find a new word that is not in the dictionary, because most of the words there are already booked. Make sure that the name you chose suits your business. This name could become your trademark and brand mane in a few days if you play your cards right. If you are stuck with a name for your website and if it is unavailable, you can use the alternative suggestion provided by sites. But it is better that you sit down and think on your own.

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Transferring Domain Names

March 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Some people find it easy to transfer a domain name and some never get it right, no matter how many times they have seen it done before. A few registering websites make the process very easy, in fact as easy as filling up form and pressing enter. But not all registering websites make this process as simple. There are numerous problems that arise when transferring a domain name. There are always customer support representatives of the domain name that can help you to smoothen the transfer process, but many do not have a support center, hence you will have to figure out everything on your own.

Transferring is a process where a domain name that is registered with one user is transferred to another registrar. This is done for various reasons like the services offered by the other registrar are better than the one before, or this registrar is a lot cheaper in offering other related services such as an email or something else. Transferring is also referred to a case when one user transfers the ownership of a website to another user. A few people confuse the aspect of domain name transfer. Sometimes a hosting server will ask you to transfer a domain, in this case the host is merely asking you to change the DNS server address. The first thing that has to be done while transferring is to raise the transfer needs. This is done by the registered used in the other registrar by you or to the other company that you are selling your domain to. After this all that has to be done is to fill up a form on the side from where the domain name is currently registered.

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Earning from Expired Domain Names

March 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The low cost of domain names has made it easy for most of the people to book domain names randomly with any name that comes in their minds. Many expired domain names which had an attached business to them crashed. These websites might have crashed because of bad business practices or low profits and high interest rates that they had to pay. No matter what is the cause for the company’s collapse, websites of these companies still finds a lot of traffic visiting each day because of various links that are still present of numerous websites.

These domain names are a source for immense income source and can be easily used to earn a month handsome income or a onetime large payment. If you do not have such a website, you can look for the thousands of domain names that are made available because of expiry each month. Redemption this process a domain name whose validity has expired is given a grace period of 30 days to repurchase it. After this grace period is over, the domain name is deleted from the registrar and is sent to redemption status. Redemption status is the stage where the domain name is no available for purchase by everyone. To get back a domain name from the redemption stage, a user has to pay a higher amount than previously paid and also will have to buy it from the same registrar. But if you want to buy these, you can look up into the expired domain registry and also check the traffic that each domain name received before being expired. There are automated tools that keep a check on these. Automated tools can even buy these domain names with high traffic after appraising and identifying them. A few domain names could be fully functional websites or a few are just booked by speculators to resell.

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Understanding FTP

January 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Understanding FTP

FTP is an acronym, a shortened version of the term File Transfer Protocol. The shortened version is most commonly used in replacement of the long version, especially when referring to the actual practice behind the term. FTP allows you to transfer a variety of different types of files between different computers as well as between computers and the internet through web hosts and similar sites. This is really just a single type of network protocol based on your basic IP Internet Protocol. As mentioned before, the term FTP is used to describe the practice itself as well as the protocol that it was named after.

If you want to transfer files using the FTP protocol, then you are going to need a client. This is a software program that facilitates a connection between your computer and the remote computer where you are trying to transfer the files. Most network operating systems already come with an FTP client installed on them, but these basic “models” are not usually very user friendly, and therefore it might be wise for you to find an FTP client or program that has a more user-friendly interface, especially if you plan on using it on a regular basis. There are many different types of FTP clients and programs that you can use to get the job done, each a little different in terms of benefits and functions, so they can meet a variety of different needs, experience levels and personality styles accordingly.

FTP is especially common when uploading files to websites. In this instance, you use the FTP client to connect with a username and password to the web host’s server, and upload your files into the appropriate folder so that they appear on your website accordingly. This is the most common usage of FTP, though this protocol has many other file-transfer usages as well.

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Things to Consider When Choosing a Domain Name

December 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When it comes to the type of internet website your company has, the most important thing isn’t how it looks, how high it ranks, or what is on it. Sure, all of these elements play a major part in how popular a site becomes, but the most important thing about a website is the domain name.

Let’s say you have an insurance company and are looking to start a website, you should put some thought put into what type of domain name you choose before you starting a website for yourself or your company.  Make sure the name represents what you do as a business.  Sure something like autoquote.com might sound good.  But if your company specializes in home policies, then you are not representing yourself well.

Here are some other things that you should take into consideration when making a domain name. Don’t use hyphens. Hyphens can often times make a domain name rank lower in Google ranks. It is also hard to remember for customers. So if you were making a domain for 21st century insurance you would not want to choose something like 21-century-insurance, as it would be hard for people to remember where the hyphens go.

Also, if you cannot go with your company name, make it memorable.  A memorable domain name is more likely to get visitors than a generic one. Try to make the name related to what you are trying to say but make it creative and catchy. You want people to be able to remember the name of your website.  For example if the company – 21st Century – mentioned above could not get its name it might want to go with something like SaveMoneyOnInsurance.com or BestInsuranceQuotes.com

Follow these tips to ensure you get a domain name that is good for you, is memorable for your customers and ranks high with search engines.

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What is a Domain Name?

November 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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A domain name is a unique collection of letters and numbers that specifies exactly the uniqueness of an internet resource, like an website. It is used to classify the billions of websites out there, so that when an user types a website URL or address, the process is not confused as to which particular website to take the user to.

There is a specific hierarchy for domain names, starting with what are called top level domains or TLDs, for example, net, com and org. There are also country code top level domains like us, in, cc etc. These are the most widely used top level domains in the domain name system or DNS hierarchy. In fact, for every country in the world, there is a country code top level domain name or ccTLD.

The governing authority that lets the public register and sell domain names is called the ICANN. While no one can "own" a domain name, buying a domain name ensures exclusive use of that domain name during the period for which it is paid for. If there is a lapse in payment, almost all domain names can back under the hammer and get resold to the public.

If you want to build a web presence, whether for you personally, or for a company or other organization, business or non-profit, you will need to first buy a domain name from one of a host of domain name resellers. These resellers, in their turn, register their domains with a domain name registrar. Once you have paid for your domain name, you can then get webspace for your domain from your web host. After that, go ahead and put up a webpage in one of the various web languages, and you are set to go and have acquired real estate in virtual space.

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Domain Name Registration – what is it?

November 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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While a person cannot own a domain name as such on a permanent basis, one acquires the right to use a domain name by registering it. The registration of domain names is done by domain name registrars, which are in their turn delegated to register domain names by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN. ICANN is ultimately responsible to direct the whole system of naming and classifying the domain names on the internet.

Besides the top level ICANN, there are organizations that administer the functioning of each top level domain or TLD. These organizations look after what is called a registry, a system that stores a database of all names of domains registered under that particular top level domain. The registry, in turn, receives new domain name registration info from every authorized registrar of domain names in that top level domain. This information is regularly published, often in real time, using a system known as the whois protocol. The whois database stores every single domain name registered in the virtual world.

Every registry normally charges a small fee, to be paid monthly or annually, from a registrant of a new domain name. This fee includes the service of a set of name servers for the registered domain name. The fee is often said to be for a sale or a lease; however, the user simply acquires exclusive right to use the domain name. In this sense, users are domain holders rather than domain owners.

The whois database not only maintains a list of names for the TLD domain names, but also for the ccTLD or country code top level domains. There are 250 ccTLDs in the internet, and almost all of these have been included in a database of users, name servers, expiration dates and other details.

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