Domain Name Registration 
  (InterNIC)

Your domain name is your unique name for your web site.  You must register your domain name with an accredited registrar to reserve the right to use the unique name you have selected.  Web Site Focus will research your name to be sure it is available and handle the registration of your domain name for FREE when we design your web site.

There is a wealth of information about the registration process, as well as a glossary of terms on the InterNIC site, which can be found at http://www.internic.net.

Before you can register your domain name, you must check to see if your name is available.  You can do this by accessing the database at http://internic.net, or with the company who will register your domain name for you.  The minimum initial registration period used to be for 2 years initially, but some extensions may now be registered for 1 year initially.  The original domain names ended with .com, .net or .org, but new extensions are being added all the time.  Some of the newer extensions now available include .biz, .info, .tv and .us.

We highly recommend registering your domain name through ReDot Systems. ReDot Systems charges $35 to register your domain name for 2 years. This includes FREE parking on their servers, FREE domain pointer/forwarding to another web site if requested and a default home page which can be customized. 

Network Solutions used to be the only company with whom you could register a domain.  The standard cost to register your domain name with them is currently $35 for one year - twice the cost of ReDot Systems.

Our experience has been that Network Solutions and Verisign are impossibly difficult to deal with and we would not recommend them under ANY circumstances.