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Stake Your Claim to an internet Home - The Dot Com DomainsPosted on 3/2/2011 at 5:01 PM - LinkOn the web, your website address and its extension establish both your identity and your space, marking your territory in the virtual world. You claim and own that space as if you had staked your claim on terra firma. An international directory associates your domain and business with you, and an international governing body protects your exclusive rights to the url of your website. No one can impersonate you or infringe on your territory.Once you search for a major business on Google or Yahoo, your intuition naturally prompts you to type "name dot com," and the results typically affirm your intuition. Making a web presence with your own name and ".com" domain remains the simplest and least expensive way to launch your enterprise in cyberspace. Although the extension is unrestricted, ".com" is still understood to signify a business as ".org" usually represents a non-profit organization and ".gov" is associated with federal and state governments. Once upon a time, ".com" was the short form of "commercial." If you are launching a commercial enterprise via the internet, "your business dot com" may still be the best and most obvious way to identify yourself. Using search tools at website name registration services, you can instantly find out whether or not some other business has claimed the name you have in mind. |
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