Want to buy Domain Name

[unwashed potato!]

I am currently learning how to build a website and am looking at building one and having it up running in the next 2months. I am at the moment wondering how to go about buying a domain name (i think thats whats its called) e.g. mywebsite.co.uk. i have the name already and have typed it in and nothing haas come up so i beleive that it is still free to buy? but how do i do this?

Also i know someone that will want me to be building a website for them once i can, which will be about what she does (horse training) and has done, and just ways of contacting her to lessons etc. What kind of bandwith etc, (dont know all that id need to cover) am i looking at and where would be a good place to get this for little price?

thanks for any help recieved

sos for sounding like a noob, i am very new to this so please be nice

 

[unwashed potato!]

thanks for the quick relpy.

Well im not too sure yet what my site will do, i am just looking to makemy first one so i just will try and add lots of things that will improve my skills, maybe ill do one for my clan or something with extra things like a few (not too many) adverts to lower prices, links to other sites etc etc.

So if i did this other persons website on my home machine, wouldnt that mean that the machine has to be on 24/7 and also if my ISP did complain what would that mean, for instance would they start charging more, ir would it just be a letter saying hey bugger, your getting what you paid for ?

thanks again

 

[unwashed potato!]

#i WOULDN'T recommend it!#

yeah was just going to say wtf why? but you beat me to it lol

I was thinking of doing static html, if thats what you called it, as i only knew of it that way, what other ways are there?

So how would i search if my domain name i'd like is taken already?

 

[unwashed potato!]

well i just found out that your not allowed to use the & symbol in the address, is this true?

The domain name i wanted was adam&eve.co.uk but if i cant have the apersand symbol then i would want adamandeve.co.uk, however when i search for this it leads me to apge saying it is already taken by such and such, however i would have thought that whoever has taken it would have a website there. i dont understand this. could someone please explain it to me

 

[unwashed potato!]

yep, & is a resevered character, like ! and £.

it's also common that people hijack common domain names so that you gotta buy it from them. normally they take you to an unrelated site.

would you be able to check it and tell me if its possible to have this still? sos if im being an anoyance like i said i really am new to this

adamandeve.uk.com is available, however i feel that the uk.com will put the site down, how often do people use or even know of uk.com, is it becoming a bigger thing, like in a year or so it will be common as new names will be needed?

 

[unwashed potato!]

the url doesn't resolve. I've done a 'whois' check and that doesn't work either, which is against Network Solutions policies.

this means that someone has registered the domain name to a machine that is unreachable (either the machine has been switched off for ages, or it's been hijacked)

I really doubt you are gonna get this one

well from the whois of that website, it says the expiration date is september 2006 so what should i do then? as when typing in the address there isn't the owner of the domain names website, does this mean something like you said turned off? or maybe they still ownthe address but dont use it anymore? so in september, i would possibly be ableto buy it right? how would i do this? also would the current owner get first rights to it?

this is where i read the whois from: http://www.netnames.co.uk/dnrs/netnames.client.Search

 

[unwashed potato!]

Once it expires it's first come first served.

Though the customer will be informed it's due to expire and will probalby be offered a discount to continue owning it for at least a year. whether they act or not is another question

dang, so by the sounds of it im going to have to wait until then to find out if i can get it, if i can that is thats a right kick in the bottom. oh well i guess that i can just make a really good website by then, or is it possible to just use a rubbish domain name thats real cheap and per month, so i can test it, and like post it here for reccomendations of improvements etc?

 

[unwashed potato!]

I'd say it's highly unlikely that you'll be able to pick it up come September. The current owner of the domain will be warned it's about to expire, and it will enter a redemption period of around 30 days after the stated date (22nd September) during which they can re-register it. It is a pretty desirable domain name too!

There's no need to buy a rubbish domain name really. Just look for an alternative instead. .com domains cost about £5/year through American registrars, and .co.uk domains can be had for even less! I don't know of any domain registrar which allows registrations of less than a year at a time; it would be a huge amount of hassle for them and as domains are already so cheap it's not worth it.

ok,well by the looks of it then i should just find another good website domain name. its a shame as i really liked the idea of adamandeve as i aim the website to be a light and natural looking place, like the i think its called 'Garden of Edan' where adam and eve lived etc plus my last name is Adams

 

[unwashed potato!]

It's been around for ~10 years, so it's a stable extension to buy in to. Bear in mind it's not an official ccTLD like .uk or .us, but it works in the same way as if you were registering a .com or a .co.uk . The domain-name market is already incredibly saturated for .coms and the other 'big' suffixes, and has been for a good while - it's a viable alternative for getting a good name.

hmm interesting, my concern though is how you say it has been around for roughly 10 years, however i very rarely come across a website with uk.com at the end, and if i did know of a website with uk.com, id most likely forget it was uk.com and end up not remebering the website, (if that makes sense)