Check domain name availability

Having registered a domain name, the choices and possibilities available are too many to be count. All major websites you might be familiar with and you probably visit often (facebook, twitter, google, ebay etc.), started with a domain registration.

A few examples, without restriction to them only, are the following:

• You may use the Free Hosting Service to create your first website.
• You can have without any charge your own email address in the form: myname@mydomain.com
• You may redirect your new domain to a domain you already have, to your facebook page, your twitter etc.
• You can create your own Blog via Blogger
• You can create your company's website or e-shop
• You can even sell it to a higher price and make profit.

If your first choice isn't available, don't get frustrated! There are many alternatives and with a bit of creativity, you may spot many domain names that may meet the same or even more your needs. For instance, the domain www.californiavineyard.com, may not be available, however, the domain www.robertsvineyard.com , which describes your business in an even better way, might be still available for registration. There are unlimited choices and you can easily find an alternative domain, adjusted to your needs.

Moreover, anyone can register and sell a domain name. There are plenty who do this for a living. If the domain name you wish for is already registered, visit the website just in case, there might be a possibility the domain's owner is offering it for sale.

The best domain names are those which are easy to be memorized, spelled and can be pronounced as an expression. The domain names cannot contain gaps, or any other punctuation besides hyphen. However, the best choice is to use a single word or a word combination. For instance, you may register the domain www.the-adams-family.gr, however, consider how difficult it would be to express it orally, compared with www.theadamsfamily.gr, which can be expressed as an expression.

Besides spelling, you should also emphasize on whether your domain is expressing your website' s content, your occupation, or the subjects you are interested in. Moreover, the domain name is one of the criteria all search engines such as Google, are using to rank the websites. Thus, it should be an asset if your domain name contains key words, which may be used for possible searches.

In addition, before registering your domain, make sure you have checked if anyone is using a similar name, and in a way that could affect the operation of your website. Pay attention to the suffixes – the same domain with an alternate suffix may lead to a website with offensive or illegal content.

With every domain you register with IP.GR, we are offering you without any charges the web forwarding service. Using this service you may have free domain parking, free domain redirect for your visitors to type your domain and be forwarded to the website you decide or free domain redirect cloaked, to forward your website' s visitors to the page you wish through frame set, free starter page in which you may add the text you prefer and also free for sale page, in case your domain is available for sale, in which you may also add the text you like. Additionally you are provided with the free email forwarding service, to redirect any email @yourdomain, to the email address you want.

With your domain, you also have free full DNS Control service, which you may use to connect your domain with Blogger or Google for instance, or add the records you want to your domain's zone file.

Moreover, with every domain you register through IP.GR, you also get a hosting pack for free, with 100MB storage space and your own email address, for you to start your website now! The free hosting pack also includes free of charge the control panel for your website, which you may use to upload and modify your files, as long as make any change necessary for your website to be working properly.

Registering a domain and buying a web hosting pack, are two different services. It is easy for you to be confused, since most companies, just like IP.GR, offer both services. To make the differentiation, we will give a simple example:

Imagine your website' s hosting like an apartment you rent, it is the place your web page may “live”. Your hosting company is a “building” with many apartments, that the company rents to its clients, according to their needs.

Now think of your domain as the phone number one may use to connect with your “apartment” (that is to visit your website). Since the internet “phone numbers” are too many, in every internet phone number a small, easy to memorize word is matched- that is your domain!