| In our world of internet driven marketing, advertising | | | | So how to buy domain names online? |
| and sales, domain names are becoming a highly | | | | Step 1 - Think of a unique domain name. A lot of the |
| sought after resource. Domain names that are easy | | | | good ones are already taken. You may end up using |
| for the general public to think of and go to are worth | | | | a longer name because your original name isn't |
| quite a lot to the right people. This being the case, a | | | | available. This is actually the hardest part. |
| lot of people would like to know how to buy domain | | | | Step 2- Go to Google and do a search for 'buy |
| names online and the process is really quite simple. | | | | domain name'. What you will see when the list loads |
| When you buy a domain name, what you are really | | | | is a long series of options. Places like Yahoo and |
| buying is the right to use a series of numbers called | | | | GoDaddy are fairly popular but they are not the only |
| an IP address. This IP address is basically the | | | | ones out there. Choose one. Prices can range from |
| whereabouts of your information on the internet. A | | | | fairly inexpensive (think five dollars a year) to not too |
| typical IP address will look something like | | | | expensive (around ten or eleven dollars a year). |
| 123.123.123.12. Originally all you had to do to go to a | | | | Step 3 - Once you have decided who to buy your |
| website was remember the IP address of the | | | | domain through, go to their website and follow the |
| particular website you wanted to go to. However, as | | | | usually simple instructions. Yahoo Domains has a sign |
| the internet gained popularity this system became | | | | up button right on the main page that leads you |
| unwieldy as more and more IP addresses entered | | | | through registering your domain name step by step. |
| the system. Enter the Domain Name System, | | | | Remember, all you've done is buy a domain name, |
| created by the University of Wisconsin in 1983. This | | | | not space to store your actual content. That is called |
| system maps IP addresses to domain names. | | | | hosting and is a different thing altogether. |