Two Common Pitfalls When Registering A New Domain Name

There are some common pitfalls that many webmasters and people who are a little new to the World Wide Web usually fall into when registering brand new domain names. Many of these dangers have emerged in recent times from the constantly evolving web.

.INFO is a popular domain prefix. One of the things that has made .INFO even more popular is that fact that these type of domain names can be purchased in bulk, very cheaply. Unfortunately this feature has also attracted many spammers. Today .INFO is used quite a lot by spammers and especially by splogs (spam blogs rather than websites). So what has happened is that some spam filtering solutions have factored this in and give stronger weight to domain names that end with .INFO.

So it is wise that if you miss the domain name that you want at the .COM prefix, then go for anything else but a .INFO domain, because that is one domain that will give you endless problems with spam.

A quick hint of how you can get to retain a favored domain name that you have come up with, is for you to add a city or state name or even abbreviation to the domain name. This is a very effective technique to differentiate you from another person or organization using the same domain name.

Another extremely dangerous pitfall that many fall into these days is that of using existing trademarks that do not belong to you. It will interest you to know that many law firms these days use special Internet search tools to constantly look for infringements that their clients own. It is therefore much easier to end up with a huge law suit against you when you were just innocently trying to register a new domain name.

It will be useful if you can avoid these emerging pitfalls every time you think of registering a new domain name.

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