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How do you register your domain ?

Registering your domain is the next step once you have chosen a domain name. As told before you can register using Domain registrar or through a web host.

List of accredited registrars can be found at www.icann.org/registrar-reports/accredited-list.html. Almost all registrar will allow you to check online if the domain name is available or not. Once available you can book that at the price requested by these domain registrars through their websites. Once your domain is registered it simply means that the domain name is owned by you, your website will still not start! For starting your website you need a web space where you can place your website files like html, images, php, javascript files etc. More than often these registrars will also provide you with the web space for your domain. This brings us to the other way of registering domain, through web hosts.

Web host are organizations which provide you with web space on their server, but most web hosts will first register your domain and then provide web space for your website on the server managed by them. While the procedure may sound similar to the previous one of registering the domain, it is not. When registering a domain through registrar you are directly contacting the registrar while through a webhost its the host which contacts the registrar.

In olden days there were cases where the web host booked the domain name in their own name rather than yours and hence experts advised to go through the first method. Personally I registered the domain through web host because :
1. Registering through reputed web hosts will prevent fraud in registration (you can always check it by whois).
2. Web hosts will register the domain and also do the entire configuration for your website (read less hassles).
3. Your domain name and web space will expire the same day, hence only one day to remember and renewing will be easier.

So now you are ready to register your domain with your chosen domain name. In our next topic we will be discussing about web hosts and what to look for when registering your domain through a web host.