With the market for good usable domain names reaching into the millions of dollars a year range, there are many questions about how much a domain name is worth. You will find many services that will use esoteric formulae for determining what a specific name may be valued at on the open market. Some domain name valuation services will charge anywhere from $10 to $50 to process your information. However, the paid services have the problem of needing repeat business so they will rarely tell you straight up that a particular domain name is worthless. Sometimes the report will cost you more than the domain name is even worth.

Here is one instance where a free service can provide you more dependable data

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As an extra function on your domain name to help separate the website's purpose, the top level domain extension was created. These distinct letters after the individual domain name were designed for use with various specific purposes in mind.

The use of these generic top level domains began in the mid 1980's as a way to separate the types of information you would expect to find on a website. The original six were as follows. The .com was to be used for commercial ventures, .edu was reserved for educational institutions, .gov was the extension for government related websites, .mil was for the use of military information, .org was for the use of institutions that did not clearly fall into the other categories, and the .net which was added at the last minute for network infrastructure sites. While these were originally strictly regulated, .com, .net and .org have become free to use for whatever purpose your website has.

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There are several important considerations to take into account when you are researching for a good solid name for your new website domain. As well as your company name itself, the parts of speech you use to construct your domain name can affect the value and performance of your website.

Easily the most important factor is to obtain a domain name that matches your company name. This is the quickest way to keep name brand recognition in the minds of your users. If you share a similar name with other companies, using carefully chosen parts of speech are a way to make yours stand out.

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 When new webmasters are just getting started, one of the most nerve wracking things to do is trying to understand how to write hypertext markup language (HTML). While html seems confusing at first, there is a very logical flow to the way you construct the code and only a few basic commands to get at least a skeleton page online for potential users to see. It is a VERY good habit to get used to writing all your code in lower case letters. Not only will this make it easier in the long run to type precisely the same letters in your commands but as the standards of html are revised, upper case letters will be ignored.

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