Q: I’ve discovered a website that appears to have been abandoned since 2003. However, the domain name is active until 2015. I have tried contacting the owner but I received no reply. Is there any way for me to commandeer, take over, the site? I would use my own domain name.
Q: I have registered a domain name and I want to host it for free, what should I do? I have registered at many free hosting sites but I am not able to use my domain name.
Q: How can I find out when my website was FIRST launched? I know when the domain/service etc was bought. Original web designer is dead and all records lost. Archive.org is of no help. Can I find out when the website was “first viewable” by the public? Website is www.diamondaranchtexas.com. It has been re-designed since original in June of 2006. Domain and service was bought on 6-13-2006. That is not “proof” of when it was first put up so I am told. Yahoo says they have no record other than the purchase date.
Q: How do you purchase a web domain and hosting?
Q: Is there an easy way to search for registered domain names that contain certain words? For instance, if I know the name includes ‘book’ and ’shop’ but I have no idea where those words come in the name but I want the result IShopForBooks24-7.com.
A: There is a site called namedroppers.com that allows you to search for domains with keywords like you suggested. It also allows you to exclude keywords as well. So if you wanted to search for domains with ‘books’ and ’shop’ but without ‘now’ then you can do that as well.
Read Question HereQ: Is there an easy way to search for registered domain names that contain certain known words? For instance: If I know the name includes ‘book’ and ’shop’ but I have no idea where those words come in the name (e.g. IShopForBooks24-7.com). I’m using a Mac, if that makes any difference.
Read Answer HereQ: I’ve purchased a domain thru whois.com and the domain is sourceofgaming.com. I do have a hosting website too.
My problem is everyone else can open the website and view it but I can’t. I am keep getting redirected to a parking page and I do not know why.
I’ve downloaded multiple spybot, adware, malware cleaning programs and cleaned out everything and still failed.
Q: Are the country specific domain names like .cn or .tt. required to be hosting in those countries? Do they have anything to do with those countries (i.e., do they get routed through there?). Would national instability affect them? Can they handle massive surges of traffic, do you think?
A: When you register a domain name, there will be an IP address sitting behind that (i.e. your web server, file server, or whatever the domain name is intended for). This IP Address will dictate how routing happens to/from that domain name, not the name itself.
Can civil unrest in countries result in problems with the domain name? Realistically no. The name is registered to you on an IP address somewhere else in the world. The only thing that may affect you is if China decides to no longer allow outside-of-country people to own .CN names. This isn’t likely to happen, but I suppose it’s a very small risk no less.
Everything else you have asked (Throughput etc.) is really dictated by that IP address you have assigned to it. If the server that is handling the traffic can handle 10mb a second, then it can handle 10mb a second regardless of what the domain name associated is. Domain names are simply there to make addresses easy to identify and remember (Could you imagine having to remember numbers such as “192.168.1.109 for Microsoft updates, and 172.18.2.43 is my Anti Virus vendor”; it would be near impossible to navigate anywhere!
