How to Transfer a Domain Name

In today’s post we will highlight the topic of How to Transfer a Domain Name. There could be many reasons to choose a domain name transfer including price and your satisfaction level with your current registrar. If you could save a few dollars per domain name and have many to transfer the savings does add up. Let’s see how the process would be in switching your domain over here to Domains at Retail.

First let’s highlight our article dedicated to this very topic: “Transferring Domains to Us”

As the article states you need to remember a few things first:

• To unlock your domain
• An authorization code for .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, .tv, or .info domains
• A valid domain administrative contact

This ensure the process is as smooth as can be.

Once your are ready follow the following steps for starting the transfer and some helpful tips:

• Authorizing Domain Transfers to Your Account
• Checking Domains’ Transfer Progress
• Helpful Tips

Something to make a note of is that the time it takes for everything to complete can be a week (depending where its being transferred from and other circumstances). Also, if you want to transfer a .EU domain, you will need to follow the “Transferring .EU Domains to Us” process.

The article linked above will help indicate how to transfer from the following registrars:

• 1&1
• eNom
• iHoldings, Inc.
• Network Solutions
• Melbourne IT
• Register.com
• directNIC
• Tucows
• Dotster

A few other articles related on how to transfer a domain name can be found here:

• Transferring Your .ca Domains from Another Registrar to Us
• Transferring Expired Domains
• Transferring Domains to Another Registrar
• Canceling Domain Transfers
• Understanding the Difference Between Account Changes and Transferring Domains

Hope this helps for anyone who may be looking to transfer their domain name for whatever reason and are considering Domains at Retail as their next registrar of choice. Learn more on our Domain Transfer page.

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Web Address Availability

Today we’re just putting up a quick post about web address availability, as it has been a question that is being asked from time to time. Some are not quite sure what it is and are wondering if it is the same as domain name availability.

In short, yes! If you are looking for the availability of a web address, your are trying to find out if the domain name is available. A domain name is your web address online for your customers. What you will want to do for website address registration is visit our Domain Name Registration Page and begin your search to see if the address is in fact available. Many are so be persistent and look for variations of what you are looking for.

Once you find the domain, you will then be able to finish the process and get your domain. Be sure to check the domain name registration price before starting your search, so that you are aware of what the different top level domains (TLD’s) are going for. Info domains are the cheapest way to get a a web address, and more widely available, but the .com domain extensions is the preferred domain extension. Right now .com domains through our site are available for $7.99 USD plus the ICANN fee (currently at $0.18).

Keep checking for your web address availability and if it is taken you can do a WHOIS lookup to see who has it.

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New Domain Name Articles added!

Just a short update in today’s post, as we have written two new articles about domain names for the EzineArticles article directory.

The first article:

Domains, Hosting and Micro Niches Equals Money

This one explains to you why looking at micro niches can become profitable for an Internet Marketer. Simply getting a domain name and web hosting, plus choosing the right topic can become a gold mine if you go the “rinse and repeat” route.

The second article:

Three Mistakes Newbie Domainers Make When Buying Domains For Investment

This article goes into the idea that some people simply buy domains as an investment. Almost an “online real estate” that they use to make money. This article explores facts that people new to this type of idea need to understand about domains.

For more articles on domain names and other topics visit the Author Page at:
EzineArticles Author Page

You can also subscribe to the EzineArticles author feed here:
EzineArticles Author RSS Feed

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Buy ssl certificate for your WebSite

If you are thinking of offering the ability for membership, ecommerce or online collection of your visitors data, you should invest into the security of your visitors data. All data under regular sites (http://) come through unencrypted and can be used by the wrong people to gain your visitors information. This should be protected and the best way is for the data to be encrypted upon transmission through the internet. This involves having a web server certificate known to the Web industry as an SSL Certificate.

SSL Certificate stands for Secure Socket Layer Certificate ensuring data is encrypting to prevent others from reading your data in plain view. Now that you understand how important a ssl certificate is, you should really take the next steps and buy ssl certificate if you currently have a web site with this functionality, or if your website will soon be gaining this functionality.

Domains at Retail offers three choices for you to choose from:

Now remember to secure your visitors data from unwanted eyes!

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Domain Name Lookup Whois

Web site owners and domainers may want to perform a Domain Name Lookup Whois to see the current owner of a domain name for a couple of reasons. They may want to see when the domain name is expiring, or find contact information about the owner.

Visit our Domain Name Lookup Whois page.

The Whois will display a multitude of information such as:

• Registrant
• Administrative Contact
• Technical Contact
• Record expires
• Record created
• Domain name servers
• Registry Status

So Search the WhoIs database to do a Domain Name Lookup.

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