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 1. Introduction 2. What Is A Domain? 3. Choosing Your Domain Name 4. Information Required To Register A Domain 5. Moving Your Existing Domain To PowerLink 6. Additional Domain Information
Top Level Domains .com and .ca are examples of top level domains. .com is generally used by for-profit businesses. .ca is used to denote Canadian entities of various types. Other examples are .edu (educational institutions), .net (network providers and general use), and .org (non profit organizations). Additional country-specific domain names are available, such as .au for Australia, .uk for the United Kingdom etc. Special rules and requirements are unique to each country. .com is most common for business It is generally preferred to have a domain name within the .com (commercial) domain, since that is where most people generally search first. The .ca domain is an alternative, but awareness of the .com domain is much larger. Persons trying to find your business via the Internet are likely to try yourbusiness.com, your-business.com, etc. before they think to try yourbusiness.ca. But, if you can do a good job of promoting your domain name, it may be able to eliminate much of the uncertainty, no matter what the name is. Moreover, even if yourbusiness.com is available, you may want to register both .com and .ca to maximize the success of location by your customers. Time is an Issue There is a limit to the number of domain names that can be allocated within each top-level domain. The .com domain is rapidly approaching its limit. Securing a domain name can be time sensitive, as you may have to settle on a second choice. Check Your Domain Name To find out if your preferred domain name is available, us the following form to search the InterNIC Whois Database: (Make sure to follow your search with the appropriate domain, ie. wkpowerlink.com) After checking, press your browser's Back button to return to this page. You may also want to search for multiple names. Where there is a concern of a domain name infringing on a trademark, a trademark search would be recommended. Your PowerLink Business Internet Consultant can assist you with domain registration. All Domain hosting fees are detailed in our service plans. Your preferred .ca domain name may not be available, even if it is not already taken If it becomes apparent that your domain name is unavailable, then you may consider yourbusiness.ca to be a perfectly acceptable alternative. But, a domain name such as yourbusiness.ca may also not be available to you, even if no one else has registered it. The .ca domain administrators apply different domain name allocation policies than those applied by the .com domain administrators. Conceivably, your business may only qualify, within the .ca domain, for a third level domain name such as yourbusiness.bc.ca. Your business may qualify for a .ca domain name:
We recommend that you move immediately to register your domain name(s), if available. If you do not reserve your domain name now, some other business may take it. Currently, InterNIC charges $70 US for the first two years registration and $35 US each year after. These fees are paid directly to InterNIC before registration is completed. At this time the .ca registry is a more involved process, but free of charge. However, fees will likely be applied in the near future.
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