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Domains for Author.com is an AALBC.com owned Service. AALBC.com
is a domain name reseller.
Superior 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, phone and online technical support is
provided.
Registering a domain name is your first step to establishing
your on-line presence. Authors benefit by giving their readers an easy to
remember URL like www.authorsname.com.
Many authors even register a domain that is the title of their book.
Today, domain name registration is easy and very inexpensive.
You don't even need a web site to register a domain name. The hardest part
is finding a domain name that is not already in use. Unfortunately, many
single words and common names are already taken. However, with a little
creatively you will come up with domain name that you like --
So register it
right away!
If you already have another web presence, like an
AALBC.com Author Profile or a
Blog, you can simply forward your domain to the that web page. This can be
done two ways:
1 - Simple forwarding - Your domain name is forwarded to an
existing web site (see the 3 examples below)
Example #1 - Assigning an Author's Domain to an AALBC.com
Web Page
The web site of popular literary author Elizabeth Nunez
http://www.elizabethnunez.com is forwarded to an AALBC.com
Profile Page. Visit
http://www.elizabethnunez.com
and you will actually be sent to
http://authors.aalbc.com/elizabet.htm.
Of course anyone who searchs for Elizabeth Nunez, via Google for example,
will find her page. However is is much easier for people to remember
her domain name
elizabethnunez.com.
Example #2 - Assigning a Domain Name to a Blog
The domain
http://troyjohnson.name
(which is easy to remember) is forwarded to Troy's Blog on AALBC.com.
The actual URL for Troy Johnson's blog (http://aalbc.com/blog)
is less descriptive and more difficult to share verbally.
Example #3 - Forwarding several
Top Level Domain (TLD)
Names to a
single TLD
http://aalbc.biz
http://aalbc.info
http://aalbc.net
All point to:
http://aalbc.com.
Type any of these address, the browser will display aalbc.com
http://aalbc.org
http://aalbc.us
Editor's Note: AALBC.com recently registered the
other popular TDLs (.biz, .info, .net, and .us) to protect it's brand.
Before AALBC.com registered the other TLDs; another entity registered,
to our astonishment, AALBC.org! We purchased a service called
DomainAlert® from
domainsforauthors.com;
this service allowed us to back order a domain that was previously
registered; such that, if the domain ever expired we would be
automatically registered for it. The domain expired in December
2006 and it was automatic reregistered to AALBC.com - whew!.
2 - Forwarding with Masking - Your domain is forwarded to
a another web site, but the domain name persists in the browser window.
For example, the URL
http://purchaseaurl.com
points to
http://domainsforauthors.com
Notice if you visit
http://purchaseaurl.com the
address in the browser's window continues to read
http://purchaseaurl.com even through the actual web site is
http://domainsforauthors.com
There are many reason one would want to make the URL.
Consider an author who does not yet have their own web site. They can
have an AALBC.com profile page set up very quickly and begin using their
domain name very quickly by having it point to their AALBC.com page.
Wehn a visitor visit
http://theauthorname.com
the can be sent to the AALBC.com page, but the URL will set read
http://theauthorname.com
in the browser even though the actual web page is
http://authors.aalbc.com/theauthorname.htm.
The true URL is masked to the visitor.
No matter which alternative you chose having your own domain
name gives you the opportunity to have an easy to remember web site address.
Related Terms
Top Level Domain Names (TLD) - The TLD is the
part of the domain name's URL to the right of the dot. (i.e ".com" or
".org"). As of Jan 27 2007, there are 265 TLD's. Most top level
domains refer to countries like ".us" for the United States. The most
popular, ".com", refers to commercial entities. Visit
http://www.icann.org/tlds/ for a complete list.
Related Links
Domain for Authors.com
http://domainsforauthors.com/
Wikipedia citation on Domain Names
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name,
The InterNIC Website!
http://www.internic.net
Domains for Author.com is an AALBC.com owned Service. AALBC.com
is a domain name reseller.
Superior 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, voice and online technical support is
provided
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