October 24th, 2007 by choosetolive

Enter your contact information as indicated. Next, you choose your domain name:

Unless you’ve registered a domain name through another company, you want to select New Domain. Then enter it in the box - remember, you JUST want to enter the domain, not the suffix (.com, .org, etc.) That is, you want to enter yourwebsite, not yourwebsite.com, and select the proper suffix from the drop-down box.

If you haven’t had a chance to see if your domain name is available, all you need to do is click ‘Check Availability’ and a pop-up box will let you know if your domain is available. If it isn’t available, you can try a couple of things - you can change the suffix (say, .biz instead of .com), or you can try a different domain. LunarPages will do a search for similar, available domains if you click the offered ’search for alternatives’ link.

Also, if you have more than one domain you’d like to register (LunarPages offers up to 10 domain names with the Basic package), click ‘Order Additional Domains’ and you can add them right away.

Account information on domain names is publicly available on whois.com, much like your phone number appears in the phone book. If you would prefer for your information to not be made public, you can select Make Your Domain Information Private for an additional fee.

Next, you select your billing cycle. LunarPages offers incentives for committing to a longer term, and they also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee - so there’s nothing to lose and money to gain by signing up for a 1- or 2-year contract!

Finally, they offer a number of additional features for small monthly charges. Again, unless your site is rather specialized, you will have no need for these things. If you don’t know what they are, don’t pay for them!

Click Submit.

The next page asks for your billing and account information. Fill it in, click Submit, and you’re done! You’ll then be sent to a confirmation page.

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