Posted by Tauno on September 25, 2006 under Business Names, Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Hosting, Internet, MakeWords.com, Startup Business, Technology, Web Hosting Discounts, Web Hosting Reviews, Web Hosting Services | 
How much should you pay to register your domain?
There are currently over 500 registrars have in the market for domain name registration services. We reviewed the registration prices of the industry leaders and compiled this rating chart, based on registration prices. Note that some of these companies offer a free domain with their web hosting plans. In those cases we have added some most important characteristics about those offers so you can get an adequate comparison.
The following are the yearly domain registration prices by the world’s leading registrars, ordered by the best price/value ratio:
#1 -
1 & 1 Hosting
$5.99 – Includes a 1 Gb email account and free private registration – this means you can keep your information anonymous if desired. 1 & 1 offers .com .net .org .us .info .name .biz .cc .tv and .ws domains.
#2 –
Yahoo!
$1.99 – First year registration, for new customers only
$9.99 – Regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($11.95/m) – hosting includes 5 Gb disk space and 200Gb transfer 
#3 –
GoDaddy
$1.99 - With the purchase of any other GoDaddy product – like a
$3.19/m web hosting plan
$6.65 – Bulk registration price. Applies when you register more than 100 domains at a time.
26% off normal pricing.
$6.75 - Bulk registration price. Applies when you register more than 5 domains at a time. For example .com, .net, .info and other extensions for your business name.
$8.95 - Regular domain registration price
iPower.com
$6.50 – regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($7.95/m) – hosting includes 50Gb web space
Dot 5 Hosting
$7.95 – regular domain registration price 
Free Domain with Hosting ($3.95/m) – hosting includes 50Gb storage space and 750Gb transfer
Hostmonster.com
Free Domain with Hosting ($3.95/m) – hosting includes 50 Gb disk space and 999Gb transfer, free SSH 
Omnis Network
$7.95 – includes DNS manager, URL forwarding. Bulk pricing also available 
netGURUS.com
$8.99 – regular domain registration price 
Free Domain with Hosting ($9.99/m) – free domain name with purchase of netGURUS hosting package
EasyCGI.com
$10.00 – regular domain registration price 
Free Domain with Hosting ($7.96/m) – hosting includes 6 Gb disk space and 1000Gb transfer, ASP.NET
Vendio
Free Domain with Hosting ($6.95/m) – hosting includes 3Gb storage space and 60Gb transfer
$12.95 – regular domain registration price 
European Domain Registrars
1 & 1 Internet Hosting – UK
£1.99 – .co.uk domains only. free domain parking. Best price in the UK.
£8.99 – .com, .net, .org, .info, .eu domains 
HostWay – UK
£7.95 – 2 years – this United Kingdom registrar also offers .info domains for £1.49 a year and .eu domains for £19.95/year. For US customers too. 
Check back often for updates!
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Go to Screen Name Generator
It has become increasingly difficult to find a cool, available and non-numeric screen name for a AIM, MSN, Skype and many other Instant Messaging services. There is now even a marketplace where you can buy AIM screen names for ridiculous amounts.
Therefore we have added another feature to SpinXO.com – a simple way to create 100 Screen Names in an instant. There are four different name categories that you can choose from: Male and Female names, Fantasy names, Gothic names.
Try it Now – Screen Name Generator!
Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Internet, MakeWords.com, New Features, Startup Business, Technology, Web 2.0 |
Acceli Web Solutions launches an intelligent Domain Name Generator at www.makewords.com
The new domain search system at www.makewords.com contains a variety of features that speed up your quest for unregistered domain names.
Acceli Web Solutions, a New York web development company, announced today the launch of its next generation domain name suggestion tool and search engine at www.makewords.com
Unregistered domains can now be easily found with several new methods, like the random phonetic word generator, using different language rules, synonym search, popular affixes and more.
At some point almost everyone needs to come up with a name for their startup business, personal website or blog, said Tauno Novek, Chief Operating Officer of Acceli. We faced the same question when we were looking for a name for our company. That’s when the idea about the domain name generator was conceived.
The domain search engine was developed using the new Microsoft.NET framework that takes advantage of the AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques of the web.
We’ve been running it for a while now and the results are astonishing. Within minutes the search engine returns 5 and 6 letter domain names that sound good, are brandable and memorable! Apparently there is still an infinite number of good names out there, its just a matter of finding them, said Novek.
About Acceli Web Solutions
Based in New York, Acceli – www.acceli.com – is a privately owned web design and development company that uses the latest web technologies to build innovative and unique websites.
To learn more about the MakeWords Name Generator, please visit http://www.makewords.com
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Hosting, Internet, Reviews, Startup Business, Technology, Web Hosting Discounts, Web Hosting Reviews, Web Hosting Services |
Need help choosing the right website host or a domain registrar?
We have compiled a comprehensive list of currently most popular registrars, based on the input of the users of MakeWords.com Domain Name Generator – these are domain industry professionals, marketing experts, small business owners and everyone else in need for a domain name and web hosting services.
The following registrars are the real industry leaders, reliable and highly recommended.
#1 Yahoo
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#2 1 and 1
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#3 GoDaddy
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HostGator
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Dot5
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HostRocket
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iPowerWeb
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1 and 1 UK
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www.1and1.com
1&1 offers four principal shared hosting packages:
- Beginner for the novice Web site builder – $2.24/month;
- Home ideally suited for families or individuals with hobbies – $3.74/month;
- Business for small and medium size businesses – $7.49/month;
- Developer for the professional that designs and hosts clients – $14.99/month;
As a price example, the company’s Home package will be $45 for one year with no extra costs for up to two personal domains applying. The Business package includes three domains for $90 for a full year term, compared to other hosting companies that charge up to $200 for a comparable product.
Also included with the Business Package is the free Adobe software, 2,000 IMAP or POP3 e-mail accounts, three domains, Search Engine Submission and Optimization (this gets businesses a higher ranking on Google), RSS feed creator, 100 GB of Web space, In2site Live Dialogue as well as a 90-day money back guarantee.
To summarize – 1&1 is one of the world’s biggest web hosts, and the fastest growing. Their global community is 5.87 million people strong. 1 & 1 is financially stable, reliable and profitable and therefore highly recommended for your web hosting or ecommerce needs.
Learn more about 1 & 1 services:
Go to http://www.1and1.com
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List Your Site with Yahoo! Sponsored Search
and appear on the top of search results of leading sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN.com.
Sign up and get a $25 credit. 
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Hosting, Internet, Web Hosting Discounts, Web Hosting Reviews |
Hostgator Quality Hosting for only $4.95/month
Entering coupon code hgc25 gets your first month free.
Hostgator offers 24/7/365 phone support, 99.9% uptime, and has a 30 day money back guarantee. Your site will be on a top-of-the-line Dual Xeon server that can provide instant backups of your site (this is available via the control panel). Their control panel is one of the best in the industry, and has over 39 scripts that can be installed with a click of the mouse.
Click Here – Hostgator.com
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Hosting, Internet, Technology, Web Hosting Reviews |
Are you about to give up hope on finding a good available domain name?
No worries, there is still an infinite number of available domains out there, its just a matter of finding them.
Recently some major web hosting companies have launched domain name suggestion engines that can give you hundreds of inspiring name ideas instantly. A few of them stand out by being significantly faster and user-friendlier than most:
Yahoo! Domain Name Suggestions – Link
Yahoo’s Domain Suggestions has an eye-catching ultramodern Web 2.0 feel. This search interface is done with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – the latest in web techniques for creating interactive web applications. You’ll notice that the pages are actually never reloaded when searcing. Page elements simply shift around softly, making the user experience dynamic and easy to use.
Lets say we need a name for an interior design site. Typing “interior design†to the search box produces the following results:
Not all of them are close to ideal, but there are a few that sound good and are actually quite search engine friendly – meaning that they contain the actual words people would be searching for. Note that you have to click on “See more†to view all results.
The speed of looking up over 100 domain names is simply astonishing – new results are returned in less than one second thanks to Ajax.
Click here to try it – Yahoo Domains Suggestion Engine
GoDaddy Domains Smart Search – Link
GoDaddy’s first set of results is for .com domains only, but later you can select other extenisions like .net, .info, .biz, .us etc.
We’ll try the interior design search once again.
Click on the See other domains like this link to view all suggestions.
GoDaddy offers various options to customize your domain search – add popular affixes or suffixes, include dashes in the name or use related keywords.
Click here to try it – GoDaddy Smart Search
MakeWords Domain Name Generator – Link
MakeWords is the one with most advanced features. Names can be created with random phonetic words, that sound like they would derive from English language. The popular affixes search is similar to Yahoo! and GoDaddy, with tens of different affix categories to choose from. The synonym search suggests similar keywords that can be combined with an extra affix of suffix.
There are links for checking the domain popularity, Google results and business name availability. Similar to Yahoo, this site also uses the Ajax interface.
At first it may all seem a bit overwhelming, but that is usually the case whan you have so many custom search options.
Click here to try it – MakeWords Name Generator
Good luck with your domain name search!
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Tools, Internet, MakeWords.com, Reviews, Technology, Web 2.0 |
Fresh from the Google Labs – Google Suggests finds alternative keywords of your query as you type, ranked by popularity. These can be very inspiring when brainstorming for your new business name.
Read more from their FAQ
Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Tools, Internet, MakeWords.com, New Features, Startup Business |
Go to the free online Business Name Generator
Naming your business is one of the most important decisions you are facing when establishing a new company.
There’s a lot of room for creativity, but in order to have a truly unique, memorable and brandable name, you need to consider certain basics:
- You need a distinctive name that characterizes what your business does
- The name must be pronounceable, brandable and relatively short
- You want a name that has an available .com domain
While the first two are a matter of brainstorming and consulting with your friends or colleagues, getting the third one right can be an impossibly difficult task to encounter. With more than 50 million .com domains registered today, you can spend hours looking them up in the Whois database one-by-one, only to find that all the sensible ones are already taken. Fortunately there are the domain name suggestion tools, like http://www.makewords.com/, that generate hundreds of name ideas instantly, and speeds up the domain name search process greatly.
Very often the names have nothing to do with the underlying business, or service, such as Kodak, Google, eBay. Remember, it’s the uniqueness of the name – you want to distinguish yourself from your competitors. Deep etymology is secondary compared to the uniqueness and brandability of the name.
Another way to decide on a domain name is to try to figure out what message you want to convey to people and combine a couple of short words together, that are easy to remember. Many small businesses prefer to use words that cleverly suggest qualities about the underlying product or service without describing them outright, such as Lending Tree for loans, Slenderella for diet food products, or The Body Shop for personal hygiene products. Such names can easily be generated with the MakeWords.com Popular Affixes or Synonym searches.
If you’ve found the perfect name for your business, you have to take the extra step to secure it by registering the domain name. Domain name registration is not something to be intimidated about. It is a straightforward process, where you just have to follow the step-by-step instructions given by your domain registration provider. All you need to know, is your contact information. No technical knowledge is required.
If you don’t know which domain name registrar to choose, take a look at our top domain registrars page. If you are unsure, go with a known registrar like Yahoo or GoDaddy.
Try it! http://www.makewords.com/ business name generator.
