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Building Your Own Website
Domain Names
A domain name is your online "address." It is the name people type into the address bar of their browsers to get your site. Many hosts (especially free hosts) will provide you with a subdomain (e.g. yoursite.homestead.com). Others give you directories (e.g. www.geocities.com/heartland/yoursite/). If the site is prominent, or if it is a business site, I recommend you register your own domain name, anyway. Neither of these options (a subdomain or directory of someone else's site) looks professional, and the directory option can be unwieldy. Registering a domain name will give you better control over just what visitors associate with your site.My domain name is registered with Aplus.net. It costs $7.95/year to register a .com, .net, or .org domain with them. (I did not pay for them to host, park, or transfer my domain, only to register it.)
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