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Domain Finder
Service
We have a diverse pool of resources available to help you find a quality
domain name for your website.
| Currently there are about 10 million "dot-com" domain names
registered, and registrar Network Solutions reports that new domain
names are registered at the rate of one every five seconds. If you've tried
searching for an available domain name for your new website, you know that
even an obscure name can be next-to-impossible to find. A good dot-com
domain name is now considered by many to be a commodity, and the best of
these names are being resold for thousands and even millions of dollars.
As developing websites is our business, at CompuNet
Services we're very aware of the scarcity of good domain
names. We originally developed our domain finder service to help website
design clients find a useful domain name for their new site, but we're now
making this service available to everyone.
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| How It Works |
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the taking—you just have to know where to look. Through considerable hours
of research, trial-and-error, and networking with other developers, we have
come up with a program that combines numerous resources to consistently
produce available—and useable—domain names.
The first step in searching for a domain name is to determine a primary
"keyword"; this keyword is usually the product that a client is selling
("books", for example). We then take that keyword and apply the following
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Using a software
application designed in-house, we combine the client's keyword with a
list of over 100 words that are appropriate to the purpose of the
website. For example, if you're planning to sell coffee online, we'll
combine the keyword "coffee" with "store", "shop", etc., to come up with
"coffeestore.com", "coffeeshop.com", etc. The resulting list is then
checked against an up-to-date database of domain names to produce a list
of what's available.
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ABANDONED DOMAIN NAME
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A domain name is
registered for a period of 1 to 10 years, and must be renewed at the end
of the registration period; if it's not, the domain becomes available
again for anyone to register. We have a database of over 2.5 million
abandoned domain names that are free for registration. The database
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Our domain finder service is priced at only R20.00.
We search for "dot com" domain names only (other extensions like "dot org"
and international domain extensions are not available in this service). We
guarantee we will be able to deliver at least ten available domain names
that are appropriate to your website's purpose or we will refund your money.
This service takes 1–2 business days for delivery.
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What If I Still Can't Find A Name? |
| If you've searched for a domain name for your website but
just can't seem to find anything, the creative team at CompuNet
Services can help. Selecting a good domain name is
extremely important; although we often think of a website as a marketing
tool, the domain name itself is a marketing tool as well. It can
differentiate you from the competition, and "pre-communicate" your website's
message to clients.
When "designing" domain names, we consider many factors; the name should
be memorable, should sound good and make sense, and for practical purposes
should be as short as possible. We strive to deliver names that are
distinctive, flexible, and "brand-able."
Our domain name creative service is priced at
R200.00. We will deliver 3 domain names for you to choose from.
It usually takes about 5 business days for delivery.
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Domain Name Search
Find out if a domain name is available.
| To help get things started in your search for a domain
name, CompuNet
Services is proud to make available our full-featured
domain name search application.
To search for a domain name, click here. |
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| We offer three domain-related services that you can
order online. Please select the one you're interested in, to be directed
to the corresponding page.
If you're interested in our domain finder service, priced at
R20.00
If you're interested in our creative domain service, priced at
R200.00
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General Domain Name Q&A
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| General Domain Name Q&A |
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The domain name I want is not available with a ".com" extension, but
is available with a ".net" extension. Should I use that instead? |
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".net" extensions
were originally intended for network-related websites (website
hosting for example), though there is no official policy enforcing
this, and it's possible to register any type of website with a
".net" domain extension. However, e-commerce websites are
ubiquitously associated with the ".com" extension, so we very
strongly recommend ".com" extensions for our clients' websites.
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Is it possible to get
more than one domain name for one website? |
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Yes, however it
depends on the company that is hosting your website as to whether
they allow it. Our hosting division,
lets you have several domain names all pointing to the same website
(setup fees apply).
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Can you register my
domain name for me? |
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We will gladly
register a domain name on behalf of our clients. We are affiliated
with Dotster, an ICANN accredited registrar. Registrations
through Dotster are a very-low $15 per year.
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Purchasing Domain Names |
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The domain name I want for my website is being offered for sale. Is
it a good idea to purchase a domain name, or should I try and find
an available one? |
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It depends on a
number of factors, including what business you're in and what your
total budget is for your online endeavor. If you'll be selling music
online, you're going to have a difficult time finding an suitable
e-commerce domain name with "music" in it. If you can find a good
domain name at a reasonable price, it may cost you far less to
purchase a domain name than to try to "brand" a name that is
unrelated to the business you're in (like Amazon.com, for example).
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Can you negotiate the
sale of a domain name for me? |
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Yes. Our domain name
experts will research the value of a domain name based on historical
sales of comparable names, contact the seller, and attempt to get
the best price for the name. Our negotiation fee is a flat
R50.00
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I've noticed that you
sell domain names. May I list my domain name for sale on your site? |
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Possibly, depending
on the quality of the domain name and the asking price. E-mail
compunet@wam.co.za for more
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