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Citizen Media Business Issues: Registering a Domain Name

Post Date: Jun 24, 2008 2:31 p.m.
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(This is the twelfth in a series of postings about citizen media business issues. See the introduction here. All of these entries are considered to be in “beta” and will be revised and refined as they find a home on a more permanent area of the Center for Citizen Media web site. To that end, your comments, additional examples, and criticisms are welcome and will be invaluable contributions to this process.) The first step to establishing a website is registering a domain name. This will be your address-and to some extent, your identity-on the Internet. Technical Overview A domain name’s function is to neatly label a computer on the web, so that someone looking for a website doesn’t have to remember a string of numbers (the IP address) in order to find it. To make this process work without conflicts, domains are registered for periods of 1-10 years at a time. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers manages this st...

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