L 19 months after I first bookmarked it for $15 through anothe.company (I have since renewed it with WECAIDomains for $8.77 a year).
Purchasing a Domain Name Now you are ready to buy a domain name or several. You can buy domain names from many reputable
places such as
Moniker.com Moniker.com,
WECAIDomains.com and others.
WECAIDomains.com WECAIDomains.com is a reseller for domain names and the price is $8.77 and lower, depending on the number of names your register at one time.
WECAIDomains.com WECAIDomains.com is able to offer domain name registrations at a lower price because we register in bulk. Even though there are still sites that charge up to $35 and more for the same basic service, it is not necessary for you to pay more than $10 per domain to register for a year.
Other ways to acquire unavailable domain names - If the domain you want has already been registered by someone else, you may still have an
Opportunity to purchase the domain through the secondary market for used domain names. You might find these domains listed through several services such as
afternic.com afternic.com and URL Merchant (see resources below). In some cases you can type the name in the search box of your favorite search engine and see if it takes you to a this domain is for sale page. A domain broker can also help you acquire a domain name from researching the owner to negotiating the sale and transferring the domain once the sale has bee.completed. You can contact the owner directly. That is if the information is publicly available. You can find this information in the WHOIS database or through
WECAIDomains.com WECAIDomains.com. There is of course, the chance that the domain owner is not interested in selling at any price or at this time.
One word of caution when purchasing virtual realty, Make sure the domain name you are registering is not trademarked by anothe.company. There have been cases where someone purchased a domain name in the hopes of getting HUGE fees for it and the owner of the trademark was able to sue them for trademark infringement thereby preventing them from using the domain or to extort money from th.company.
I suggest that if you do purchase a great domain name and all other factors have been taken into consideration, park it or hold onto it for a couple of years. Your $20+ investment could bring you hundreds and maybe even thousands of dollars down the road, making Virtual Realty a REALLY good investment.
RESOURCES
WECAIDomains.com WECAIDomains.com
wecaidomains.comRegister your domain name for $8.77 a year we also offer website development, domain forwarding, masking and much more!
WHOIS.com WHOIS.com
whois.comProvides domain name ownership and administration information through domain, NIC handle, and IP address searches. Searches both currently-owned and previously registered domains that are now available
Moniker.com Moniker.com
moniker.com You can register your domain name for free they do this in the hopes that you will use them to host the site (for a fee). They also develop websites and have a whole list of other services.
NAMEBOY.com NAMEBOY.com -
nameboy.com/This is a fun website you can use to create a made-up or cool domain name. Use their domain name generator by entering two keywords - and it will find available domains, registered domains and domains that are for sale from a couple of different services.
AFTERnic.com AFTERnic.com -
afternic.comA great place to buy and sell domain names, this popular domain name exchange serves brokers, individuals and corporations. It provides news, market trends.community appraisal boards, auctions, management tools and more.
GreatDomainNames -
greatdomainnames.com/If you have a domain name to sell, you can list it here for a year for just $65. By the way, there is no additiona.commission due once the domain name is sold.
URL Merchant -
urlmerchant.com/This service costs nothing to list your domain names for sale and they claim to have the absolute lowes.commission rates in the industry. They also have a premium domain name showcase for an additional fee.
US Patent and Trademark Office - Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS) -
uspto.gov/teas/index.html TEAS is the Trademark Electronic Application System. You can search to see if a Trademark is registered, in the process of being registered or is available. There is also a step-by-step process fo.completing a trademark or service mark application form properly. It allows you to fill out an application form and check it fo.completeness over the internet. Using e-TEAS you can then submit the application directly to the USPTO over the internet. The filing fee is currently $325.00 per class of goods and/or services.
About The Author
Heidi Richards
Excerpted from The PMS Principles - Powerful Marketing Strategies to Grow
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