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Domain-name registration |
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your own URL, your own
www address, you must register and pay for your domain name. The cost is
$35/year. The allocation of unique web addresses (URLs) is the responsibility of InterNIC (Internet Network Information Center), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. InterNIC collects the registration fees, but the "paperwork" is handled by private-company registrars. The largest registrar is www.register.com. Go there for further info. |
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Web-hosting services Web-hosting services provide space for websites on their big computers. If you have your own domain name, and especially if you want to do business on the Internet, you will surely choose one of the commercial services. There are free services as well. |
| Commercial web-hosting services | |
| Review sites. There are wide variations in rates and services. Some sites make it their business to sort out web-hosting services. One is hostreview.com. The site has a glossary, many helpful articles about what to consider in choosing a web host, as well as a forum for user comments. | |
| The LLI site and the techforecast site are hosted by myhosting.com, a Canadian company. The cost is $9.95/month, for 50 MB of space. That is about 10 times the size of a typical small website. | |
| Free web space | |
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Sites that offer free space generally put advertisements on your page. Your Internet Service Provider may provide space for you. If not, you might want to consider others. The availability of free web space is growing rapidly. |
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| Geocities was one of the first free-web-hosting sites. Geocities is part of Yahoo. With my own "My Yahoo" user name, I set up a home page there in just a few minutes: http://www.geocities.com/mbakker2/ | |
Lily Richards has a Geocities site: http://www.geocities.com/lilyrichards2001 |
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