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Domain Whois privacy: protect your personal information from advertisers

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Do you get a lot of spam calls on your phone? or unsolicited emails offering to build a new website for your domain name? How about SEO offers that promise to boost your Google rankings? You may wonder how those people get to know your phone number and email address...



What happens after a domain name expires?

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When you register a domain name, you obtain the right to use it for a fixed period. Once a domain expires, it goes through three periods that make it increasingly difficult (and more expensive) to renew....



What is DNS propagation and how long does it take?

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It can take from several hours to up to 1 day for DNS changes to populate all over the internet. This change is not only made to your domain's authoritative name servers but to millions of DNS servers all over the internet. ...



.COM Domain Price Increases September 1

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This is a public announcement that the registration price for .COM domain names is to increase beginning September 1. VeriSign, the Registry Operator for the .COM domain, is increasing the annual registration price by $0.54 USD to 8.39 USD. We do not have a plan to increase our price yet but it may come at a later date....



How to secure your domain name

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Domain names are one of the most important aspects of your businses and losing access or ownership to them could be catastrophic. Here are some tips on how to protect them....



Protect your website against DDos attack

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Accroding to Nokia Deepfield, there has been a 100% increase in daily DDoS peak traffic between Jan 2020 and May 2021....



Registrar, DNS hosting and Web hosting: the difference explained

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Many people who are just starting their website or online business are overwhelmed by the different terminologies related to their website. Without fully understanding the difference between domain registrar, DNS hosting and web hosting, it is hard to make a choice on what s...



How to transfer your domain name with minimal downtime?

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You are a website owner and your domain name is used for your website as well as your email services. You may have been thinking of changing your domain registrar for a long time but decided to stick with them simply because you are worried about website and email downt...



DNS dictionary: terms you should know

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You’ve probably come across a lot of strange words and acronyms while setting up your domain name. Here are some of the most common ones that you should be aware of so you can sound smart with your friends. ...



How to perform DNS lookup and troubleshoot DNS

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The Domain Name System (DNS), is a key component of the Internet that maps a domain name to an IP address. There are mainly 2 ways to lookup the DNS records of a domain name, via the Command Line or use an online GUI lookup tool....



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