Well, only a couple of months since the Quad premium buyout and we’re counting down again.

Considering “Y” as a vowel we have only 281 domains left unregistered.

Check out what’s left.

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After the LLLL.com buyout and the recent Quad Premium .Net buyout we’re soon to watch another important landmark with the CVCV and the VCVC buyout. (I’ve included Y as a vowel here)

I’ve just finished scanning the VCVC’s and found that only 951 are available atm.

Check them out below.

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Well, I am still laughing my arse off with what’s happening to the Domain market lately.

It seems like every single pal in the world is starting to discover that 4 letter domains are worth a damn lot of money.

Well, it is probably late now, at least to grab cheap bargains!

The minimum wholesale for these is now at $50 well, probably $70 unless you are dealing in bulk, and I don’t expect it to go lower anytime near… or ever again…

All the LLLL (4 letters).com have been registered and are unavailable since November, 2nd, 2007, and all the Premium LLLL.nets are registered since a couple of days also, so now you have 2 chances, either you go to the market and buy them at market price, or you try to grab a few of the last LLLL.net’s still available.

I’m glad I have a nice mix of those… around 400 500 atm!

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Some people aren’t lucky enough with their web host providers. They don’t get the kind of service they need after being lured by too much promises. Fortunately, they’ve already opened their eyes and saw the truth behind all these. So subscribers of “not so good” web hosting providers decide to discontinue their contract with them, aiming to find a better one. If you are one of them, before you think of leaving, might as well read the following steps in ensuring everything is in place.

1. Create your own backup. Before telling your provider that you will switch, make sure that you have backed up all of your things. Before you cancel your subscription, get ready first—take all you need. Copy all your files, images, design templates, scripts, and databases. Keep a list of all your software, configuration settings, security information, drivers, and others. Also, don’t forget your usernames and passwords if you have any. Even if your potential new host may have different settings, it might help.

2. Get a new web hosting provider. Find a new web host. Before you cancel your old one, get a new one first. But before all that, ensure that your host can support whatever media and text files you have with you, along with the software and scripts. Else, your website will not be running properly even though it’s fully up. Also, make a background check on the reputation of your new host. You can ask friends and families, read and participate in online forums, read some testimonials, and gather online reviews.

3. Check the registration of your domain name. Make sure that you are the registered owner because if not, you will have a hard time dealing with your old web hosting provider. The administrator of your old host might not allow you to transfer or you will have to wait until such time that they will permit you. Anyways, there are web hosting companies that help subscribers to transfer from one host and move to theirs. Should worse comes to worst, at least you have something to rely on.

4. Relocate your site. Your new web host will give you a domain temporarily so you can test. You can upload all your files, scripts, and databases into their servers. Update everything—from the links, scripts, and configuration settings—and see to it that they all run perfectly. Make your e-mail system work too in both old and new. While making your tests, post an announcement in your old site that you are moving and provide alternate e-mail so later they will get used to sending mails to your new address.

5. Renew your domain name registration information. Updates and changes will take a number of days or even weeks before they will be published in the Internet. So do re-register the earliest time possible. Moreover, make sure that it’s your name being signed up.

6. Withdraw your old web hosting contract. Usually, stipulated in contracts are agreements that all your site’s contents belong to you. Check out yours if it is written there. However, if it does not bear those words, it means that everything is a property of the web hosting provider. Should this be the scenario, just make a formal letter stating that you will move out. Make it in a polite manner. It might work!

Now, get ready to go!

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Domain names represent what the site is all about. Choosing one is as important as creating the site itself. If you are thinking of putting up your business online, choosing a good name will mean a lot. It will certainly reflect the nature of your business.

However, there are certain factors to consider in picking a domain name. So why don’t you learn some great tricks? Here they are:

Keep it short. Although domain names can be as long as 67 characters, keeping it short is more effective. Aside from the fact that you have to name your site as what it is intended for, shorter names are easy to remember. Simple words will do! If your domain name is short, surely, site visitors will not find it hard to recall. Moreover, there’s lesser tendency for being misspelled or for your visitors to be redirected to another site with almost similar domain name as yours.

Get extras. Its one thing for your domain name to be short, and another if somebody out there is sharing almost the same kind of spelling as yours. For example, if you’re into cakes and pastries, perhaps, you’ll have “annpastries.com” registered under your name. However, what if there’s also “anpastries.com”? That’s where a letter can spell a big difference. It simply means that a misspelling may divert your traffic to another website, worse, if it’s from a competitor. It may cause you a few bucks, but it helps if you can register as much of these similar domain names under your name. Once you do, you can have them redirected to your main site every time someone gets to drop by there.

Use dashes and hyphens. You might want to use dashes and hyphens in your domain name. It is an effective way to separate words in the name. Long and crunched words are hard to remember, and people tend to enter them wrongly. “Cakes-n-pastries.com” is a lot easier to read than “cakesnpastries.com.” If you will use hyphens, limit the words into at most three. Another advantage of using dashes and hyphens is that search engines will be able to look up each word as your keyword. With this, your sites will have much better chances of occupying the top spot in major search engines.

Go for the main extensions. Don’t underestimate the power of the .com. It can take you a long way. This is because millions of users are already accustomed to it. If it isn’t available for your domain name, however, there are still a number that you can choose from, such as .net and .org. The .gov extensions go for state offices’ websites, while .edu are mainly used by learning institutions.

With these tips, hopefully, you’ll find the kind of address you want for your website.

Prior to consulting a domain buy service, it would be better to just go through a domain register review phase. That helps in comprehending if the domain name suits the site or not. Decisions pertaining to webhosting domain come later. It is not compulsory that a cheap web hosting should be the preferred service. A host that supports your web site design and is cheap is good enough. There things should be taken into consideration before developing web site.

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