Domain Registration

Domain Name Registration

www.netimpact.net

Our set up fee includes one year of registration. If you are transferring an existing domain, then one year of time will be added to your domain name.

Future billings for domain registration will come from us, netImpact, Inc.

You should be comfortable with your domain name selection. A request to change your domain name after the account has been activated is subject to another registration fee.

Valid Domain Names

67 character maximum including the 4 characters used to indentify the top-level domain such as .COM, .NET, .ORG
may contain letters, digits, and a dash ("-")
cannot begin or end with a dash

Selecting Top-Level Domains (TLD's)

Please note that normal use for TLD's or Top Level Domains are as follows:

COM - commercial entities (or individual usage)
NET - internet service providers
ORG - registered non-profit organizations

netImpact can serve any domain, even non-US domains, but registration must be handled by the end user for domains other than .COM, .NET and/or .ORG.

Criteria for Top-Level Domains (TLD's)

The following is an extract from RFC1591 listing top-level domains.

   World Wide Generic Domains:

   COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is
         companies.  This domain has grown very large and there is
         concern about the administrative load and system performance if
         the current growth pattern is continued.  Consideration is
         being taken to subdivide the COM domain and only allow future
         commercial registrations in the subdomains.

   NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network
         providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the
         administrative computers, and the network node computers.  The
         customers of the network provider would have domain names of
         their own (not in the NET TLD).

   ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for
         organizations that didn't fit anywhere else.  Some non-
         government organizations may fit here.

   EDU - This domain was originally intended for all educational
         institutions.  Many Universities, colleges, schools,
         educational service organizations, and educational consortia
         have registered here.  More recently a decision has been taken
         to limit further registrations to 4 year colleges and
         universities.  Schools and 2-year colleges will be registered
         in the country domains (see US Domain, especially K12 and CC,
         below).

   United States Only Generic Domains:

   GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government
         office or agency.  More recently a decision was taken to
         register only agencies of the US Federal government in this
         domain.  State and local agencies are registered in the country
         domains (see US Domain, below).

   MIL - This domain is used by the US military.


   Example country code Domain: (must be registered by end user)

   US  - As an example of a country domain, the US domain provides for
         the registration of all kinds of entities in the United States
         on the basis of political geography, that is, a hierarchy of
         <entity-name>.<locality>.<state-code>.US. For example, 
         "IBM.Armonk.NY.US".  In addition, branches of the 
         US domain are provided within each state for schools (K12), 
         community colleges (CC), technical schools (TEC), state 
         governement agencies (STATE), councils of governments (COG), 
         libraries (LIB), museums (MUS), and several other generic
         types of entities (see RFC 1480 for details [1]).

Check to see if your desired domain name is available:
Enter lowercase letters only, e.g. yourname.com, yourcompany.com

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