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A successful web site or blog is always made meaningful by its domain name. The web address that you choose must suit the theme and tenor of the web site or blog. Make sure that your name matches the subject of the web site or blog. Almost all well-known web portals have a domain name that is short, easy to remember and type into the address window of the browser. You should understand the system by which a domain works and performs. An effective name is always catchy with a definite theme and subject. Your visitors will feel that the domain name of your web site is quite powerful as it can evoke very strong connections with something that is special to the web user.

As far as possible, use main keywords that connect to the theme and topic of your web portal. You may wish to avoid hyphens and underscores as they can confuse and mislead your site visitors. Complicated web domains are those that are very difficult to type and remember. Extra symbols and strange characters can put off web users.

Choosing a very meaningful and practical domain name is actually very simple and straightforward. You need to sit down and think over all possible combinations of good keywords and their phrases. If you want to choose a good name, you can start with a comprehensive list of prospective names and shortlist the best ones among them. When you create a list of good names, the next step is to check whether they are available for registration. To conduct this important search, you will need to use an online tool that tells you about the availability of names.

Domain ownership identification tool is a very simple utility where you will find out who is the owner of the domain is and whether the name of your choice is available or not. This tool provides you the complete details of domain ownership including the date of expiry. Choosing a domain name is a trial and error exercise most of the good domains are already in use and you may need to work hard to create a good name. Domain name tools provide you a number of alternatives when the name of your choice is not available. You can pick the one from the list that best represents your theme and business idea.

If there is a domain name available for purchase, you can pounce on it and buy before someone does it. Domain name industry is a highly competitive industry and you never know when someone is going to buy your domain name ideas. While searching for a domain name think of all possible keyword phrases and wordings because most web users have their way of choosing products or services. Keywords play an important role while searching for domains by using domain name ownership online tool. If you do not find the domain name of your choice, you can always sift through the alternative list to choose the best one. Most of the online tools are efficient in providing a listing of most probable choices that eventually allow you to find a domain name that best represents your business theme, topic, style and tenor. Another emerging trend is to buy expired domain names from registrars. You will need to be very careful while buying an expired domain because the name that you wish to buy may have a shady past. However, expired domain market is a very good place to find those domain names that are not available in the fresh domain name market.

The general rule of thumb is to buy a domain name immediately when it is available in a domain ownership tool. It is always better to buy the domain name of your choice even if you are not creating your web site right now. Never ever, allow someone to buy your domain name. You may regret your decision of not buying your domain name when it was available.

John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is also the owner of the path breaking web site called www.expireddomaingain.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.

Lagniappe Internet LLC has a new half-page ad appearing in the Ping! magazine. See the Oct-Nov 2009 issue page 32.  The pup in the photo is one of our own… Doug. We’re pleased to be partnering with Ping! and are looking forward to a long relationship with them. As part of the partnership,  all existing and new U.S. based customers are getter a free subscription to Ping! after they’ve been with us for a month.

After having to file a paypal dispute and numerous emails back and forth with failed promises…

My 1st 3 issues finally showed up today… 2 and 1/2 months after I ordered them. Tux showed up a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully from here on out things will be straightforward.

If you don’t use one of the control panels that makes it easy, figuring out how to generate the CSR for a SSL certificate can be a pain (installing the cert can be a pain too, but that’s another pain altogether)

Fortunately, there’s help! DigiCert put together a small javascript page that gives you the command you need. See it here: https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/openssl.htm

One you get the command you’ll log into your server and run it. It will generate 2 files – the key and the csr. You’ll need both. You can use the csr at any of the certificate authorities to get a SSL cert issued not just digicert.

We’ve been busy lately… we’ve installed SolusVM and have been integrating existing OpenVZ nodes into the system. Overall the process went fairly smoothly. We installed the management console into a VPS primarily for backup reasons. We could if needed take the dump and place it on another node and bring it back up pretty quickly. This adds slightly to the cost ($2.50/month) but is well worth it in our opinion. Otherwise, you install the management console on an full server and it becomes a node.

We did have one issue with an existing node, that had long ago been a HyperVM node. I placed a ticket with SolusLabs and within 30 minutes or so had the initial response. After trying a few things, their support person logged into the node for me and did the setup. The problem was with  compatibility between lighttpd and a library iirc.  Strangely enough that server did a kernel panic a few hours later after acting “wierd” for a few minutes.  Since it was brought back up, it’s been stable. I suspect it was all of the loading and unloading of various components that led to the problem.

One of the features is the pricing… It is $10 per month per node. The number of vpses per node doesn’t matter. You pay just for each physical server. The downside is that some providers will use this to justify placing more vpses per server. But those that think that way will be doing that anyway because of other per server costs like power, rack space, etc.

So far we’re pretty impressed. Of the VPS management consoles that have been brought to market since the demise of HyperVM’s founder and developer, this one seems the most solid.

Straight from the horse’s mouth…

 

What: V7Network RoundTable
Where: http://www.v7n.com/chat/
When: Wednesday Oct 7 at 1:00 pm and an encore session at 7:00PM CDT
Discussion: How to identify problem areas on your web site.
Cost: FREE to all V7N members.

Win A Free Listing In The V7N Directory For Attending Our First RoundTable Live Chat!
 

 

 
“If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0″
 
As many of you already know, our first attempt with this service crashed down around our feet when we experienced unforeseen technical difficulties. Those issues (knock on wood) have now been corrected and we are ready to get to hit the ground running offering V7Network RoundTable live training chats to the community. To thank you for your patience, we’ll be giving every person that attends a discount coupon for the V7N Directory! And two lucky winners will get free directory listings!
 
These will be structured interactive text chats covering a wide range of topics for webmasters and small business owners, focused 100% on helping our members build a highly successful online presence. At this time, our plan is to offer this training 2-4 times a month based on the response from the community.
 
The next live training chat is scheduled for October 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm CDT. We will be discussing ways to evaluate your site (and the tools that I personally use) to determine what types of changes you may need to consider making in terms of SEO and marketing techniques. Afterward, we will be opening things up for questions and answers. We will repeat the session that night at 7:00 pm CDT.
 
If what you are currently doing is working, please do not consider changing a single thing. In fact, you probably don’t need this type of training. If however you find yourself not getting the results that you have hoped for, then perhaps it is time to think about sitting down and spending some time with us at the V7Network RoundTable and see if maybe we can brainstorm through some ideas for you!
 
We will open the chat area approximately 30 minutes prior to the start of the training session. If you are not already logged in, you will need to log in using your V7N user name and password. I expect the training session to last 1-2 hours, based on the number of member questions.
 
 
 Please let us know if you will be able to attend!

The other day I blogged about tynt.com’s tracer program and how to stop it from annoying you while browsing. The idea behind it makes sense to a lot of web publishers. You don’t want people ripping off your content. But the post the other day pointed out how easy it is to get around these measures.

Google has a feature called Google Alerts, http://www.google.com/alerts, which lets you find content and emails it to you. I strongly recommend that you set up alerts for your domain name, and company name at a minimum, and get them emailed to you as they happen. This lets you keep on top of what people are saying about your company.

It would be trivial to include a fairly unique phrase into pages you are wanting to try to protect. Then setup an alert for that phrase and have Google email you. Sure you may get some false positives, but provided the phrase is unique enough, it should be few and far between. Remember to use double quotes, like “this is my phrase” so that google doesn’t match “this website is not the same as my website, even though it has the same words as my phrase“. See how all the words are there, but it’s not the phrase.  And it could miss a copied page if they did enough editing on the copied content. But since these people are basically lazy, they won’t edit the page much if at all. So it should catch the majority of them.  Catching the others probably won’t happen with the other “solutions” either if they’re modifying the content that much.