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Question:
What do I do after registering my domain name with
HostSite.com |
After you register your domain name here, only you will be able to use
that unique domain name
as your website address worldwide. HostSite.com give
you complete control over managing your
domain name. You have the following options
available:
1. You can put up a website as your
domain name.
To do this, simply choose a
HostSite Hosting Service Plan that is right for
you,
build your web pages, and then upload them to our hosting
servers.
Your customers, friends, or visitors can then visit your
website
from anywhere around the world at anytime from the internet.
2. You can use your domain name as a custom
email address:
you@you-own-name.com
Email branded under your own
domain name projects a positive image to customers,
which can not otherwise be done using a free anonymous
Hotmail account.
If you want customers to take your company's professional
image seriously,
you need to get an email address branded under your own
company's domain name.
To get email branded under your own name, simply choose a
HostSite Email Service Plan
that is right for you, or you can get a
HostSite hosting plan which already includes
email accounts.
3. You can register domain names to defend
your brand name against traffic hijackers.
Prevention is always better than cure. Cures can often be
very expensive later.
For example, competitors or speculators will often register
misspelling, or a confusingly
similar domain names to popular targeted websites in order to
gain redirected traffic
to their own website every time an internet user mistypes or
misspell that
popular targeted website address. If you happen to be the
owner of that targeted
popular website, you're losing potential visitors to those
hijackers who registered
misspelled or mistyped versions of your domain name. If you
think about this situation,
the most obvious answer would be for the owner of the popular
website to
defensively register variations of his domain name from the
very start even before
the website became popular. By the time a website
becomes popular, its already too late.
Traffic speculators will
have already registered important variations of your domain,
and then redirect mistyped traffic
to their own website. Because you know this,
you are already better off than
someone who is not aware of this until it is too late.
For example, because we know this, we actively deploy
defensive registrations for HostSite.com.
What we did was that we registered both the singular and plural
cases of our brand name.
We own both HostSite.com and HostSites.com. We also
registered, host-site.com,
with the dash in between. If you type
http://hostsites.com or
http://host-site.com
into the web browser,
you'll see it redirecting back to our main site:
http://hostsite.com.
We also registered
similar domain names such as sitehost.com (hostsite reversed), and other
misspelled variations
of our brand name just so our customers who misspell our brand will
still be able to find us.
If your brand is important to you, you can use this same strategy that we used
in order to protect
yourself.
Register potential variations of your domain, and then use our free domain
redirection feature to
forward the incorrect domain name to your main domain name.
You can do this from
inside your
Account Manager here.
4. You can keep the
domain name registered under your ownership for as long as like
until you finally decide to use it
sometime in the future. For this option, you just have
to remember to renew your
domain. Or for convenience, you can register or renew
the domain for
10 years at a time, so you do not have worry about forgetting to renew it yearly.
For example: Because the domain name HostSite.com and
HostSites.com is
important to us,
we renewed the registration of HostSite.com and HostSites.com for an additional
10 year time frame.
This gives us peace of mind because we do not have to think
about renewals for a long time.
Find
your domain now!
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