Registrars and Payment

A website domain name is an identification label that you can use to let people access and find your website on the Internet. Each domain name is linked to one (or multiple) IP address(es). You can think of an IP address as your name and the domain name as your nickname. Both will help your friends contact you, but a nickname will make easier for people to find and get to know you.

1. Registrars and Payment

• There are several services on the web (or "registrars") which will allow you to purchase a website domain name. These services work with the ICANN, a large worldwide organization without commercial interests that manages and controls how domain names are used across the globe.
• Not all registrars are the same. You may want to compare the different registrars prices, reliability, support and features the registrars can offer you.
• You will need either a credit card or a PayPal account to pay for the domain.
• Registering a domain name is generally very cheap for common extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi etc. and should cost you around $10/year. The popular registrar Go Daddy prices .com at $10.69/year, .net and .org at $9.99/year till .mobi domains which will cost you $7.99/year.
• Localized domains (like .it, .de, .jp, .co.uk) or domains that identify a specific market niche (.tv, .fm) are more expensive than the general .com or .org. A few examples from Go Daddy: .it is $14.99/year, .de is $17.99/year, .co.uk is $19.98/year .jp is $99.99/year, .tv is $39.99/year and .fm is $69.99/year.