Your choice of registering ca domain names or something else like the com alternative is how local or international your business is. Let’s look at the reasons for each.

Register ca domain names

You will want to select a Canada domain name if you exclusively go for local clients. So let’s say you are a local roofing company, who will only work in a specific location or area. Let’s say you only service the province of Ontario and the greater Toronto area. For you the .ca tld will help you rank for people searching within Canada, and provide the instant recognition that you do service that area because people will recognize .ca. When you want that recognition and advantage in the search engines like google, then domain name registration canada would be your choice. The only drawback will be people who automatically assume you also own the .com. In this case, it would probably be a good idea to register the .com as well and have it forward to your .ca site.

Registering a .com or other TLD

First let’s discuss everthing but the .com. So extensions like .net or .org. These ones will have the same problems of everyone assuming .com, so you may as well choose the .ca to represent your business origin. The .org is a better choice than even the Canada domain extension if you are actually running a non for profit organization, since that extension is meant for that.

Now .com is the all time favorite. Everyone assumes it or tries it first when looking for your site. You should probably always get this even if you think a different extension is better. So with a ca domain name, you should still get this tld and forward like mentioned above.

Ideally get as many tld’s as you can if you are branding your domain name. So a person in Canada may want to look at the .ca, as well as .com, .net and .org. Just as someone in the USA would probably register a .us extension.

If you are not worried about people taking the other extensions and you target canadians only, then CA domain name registration is probably a wise choice to use as your main site URL.

One of the main things is the actual site and how useable it is. If the site doesn’t convey a professional image, and every time you search you are having breakdowns or errors, then you want to stay clear from that provider. If the site does not work, how can you be sure their domain registration process in the background will not have similar problems.

The next is how much control you have with the domain and the information associated with it. You should have the ability to change your own nameservers yourself right away. You also want the ability to update your contact information quickly, else you may risk losing your domain due to ICANN rules. Believe it or not, there are some smaller companies that will need to do it manually for you and you need to call in the information. This happens a lot with a web designer controlling everything for you and they will need to make the change. You may as well have complete control yourself to make the changes, and normally the web designer will charge you a fee on top of the regular cost for their time.

Finally, and one of the biggest combos for making a provider the best domain registrar is a mix of an affordable price with the support you deserve. Nowadays, the minimum should be 24 hours x 7 days a week support schedule. You are open online non stop, so your registrar’s support office should be as well to help you if something were to go wrong. For prices, you can easily find registrars offering domains in the ten and under range. This of course depends on the domain extension, as each tld is a different price. You never want to go too cheap, but with the streamlined process of getting domains registered nowadays, you will find price has gone down a lot and that low cost domain registrars are providing the same and even better services.

Hope that gives you a better evaluation of what to expect from your domain registration provider! Don’t settle for anything less.

Visit our domain name registration page to start your domain search, or please visit our domains help section to answer any remaining questions you have about 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.

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.

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.

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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!

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.

Let’s first give you a link to actually view our prices:

Domain Name Pricing (prices will open in a new window)

In that link you’ll also find our domain name renewal prices. One thing to note is we keep our domain name renewal prices cheap as well.

Let’s summarize our prices here for the most popular TLD extensions:

Most domainers looking to buy domain name cheap are either buying new domain names, or are looking to transfer a large portfolio of domains where they save money on every domain transferred.

Our domain offerings answer these needs with our low cost pricing structure indicated above.

If your looking to buy domain names cheap, visit our domain name registration page to begin searching for a new domain or visit our domain transfer page to begin the process of transfering your domains.

Not sure about our services? Create a free new account and take a look around our interface before making a decision.

Well we have listened to what our visitors are searching for and have changed our Premium Hosting plan to an Unlimited Web Hosting plan. You will now be able to get unlimited transfer hosting, if that fits your requirements. While the unlimited option exists, those searching for free unlimited hosting won’t find it here although we do offer free ad based hosting.

Please view our web hosting order page to get more details about the new unlimited space web hosting and unlimited bandwidth hosting we now offer.

One thing to remember, the unlimited plan does include the ability for unlimited domain hosting. What this means is you can have unlimited bandwidth and disk space, but also host 10, 20, 30 or even more web sites all under the same plan. This applies to the deluxe plan as well for multiple domain hosting, but the deluxe of course has space and transfer limits.

Remember to check out our low cost shared hosting plans.

No more will you have your renewal dates tied strictly to your initial registration date. Keep an easy date to remember for all of your .COM and .NET domain name renewals so you never miss an expiry date. Make it easier for yourself to remember. Your domains will not be scattered across the entire year, but the same day.

Let’s see how this works with some visual guides:

1. Log in to your Domains at Retail Account
2. In the left sidebar you will see the link for “Consolidate .COM & .NET Renewals” or you can just click the link here.
   
3. Next a page will load with a list of Available domains:
   
4. Click the Domains you would like to Consolidate, or click the double arrows to select them all, as you will likely want all domains expiring at the same time for easier maintenance
5. Next you will select the Month and Day you would like the domains to be consolidated to, agree to the Terms and click Continue
   
6. You will now be at your Shopping Cart and complete the purchase as normal, and you are done.

 

Pricing is determined by the number of months adjusted per domain and has a one month minimum. Currently Public Domains are Just $1.50 per month per domain, while Private Domains are just $3.00! The price to ConsoliDate a private domain name includes the extension of the Domains By Proxy® private registration service.

Quite easily through the Control Panel you can use Domain Consolidation to remove your headaches of remembering all those expiry dates, and make it into one easy to remember day.

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