The power of the internet is overwhelming; the internet has consistently outgrown itself from year to year. Everybody, every brand, every businesses are going online to tap into the vast traffic and huge market share that exist online. Those online businesses can only function effectively if they individually have a web address – a domain name. A domain name is a unique identifier that is entered...

I think we all know about Tumblr, the feature rich and free blog hosting platform. It offers professional and fully customizable templates. It’ll be like ‘social network’ experience. If you want to make your Tumblr blog more professional and to give it a true identity, then using custom domain name is the best choice. Earlier we also shared how to setup custom domain name for Posterous...

Posterous is a simple blogging platform which is just 4 years old now. It is quite popular because of its simple way to share stuffs online. We also run our Slashsquare Status Blog on Posterous and we love it completely. You can also add your custom domain name to your Posterous site and make it look professional. Posterous Blog URL: http://blogname.posterous.com Custom Domain Name: http://blogname.com...

Domain flipping (resale of domain names) is a common way for webmasters and bloggers to make money. They register high quality and premium domain names, then sell it for a better price. Some people are interested in buying such domain names, they love to register branded domain names and start their business. So I picked some 10+ best marketplaces to buy and sell domain names. The descriptions are...

Ah, good question it is. People started debating whether Google has any kind of anti-porn algorithm or some kind of rule. Maybe because of the vulgar words used in the domain names? But Matt Cutts says it has nothing to do with those things. He says no matter how popular a porn website is, it will not be a criteria for getting a good PageRank (PR). Why It Is Like That? Because Google (or well, PageRank)...

Before going to the main part, I would like to explain what is “DNS Propagation”. It is nothing but the time delay between the time you make DNS changes on your respective server and the time it takes these changes to be seen by you and your users. Simple! If you are interested in accessing your website or if you want to make some changes during DNS propagation, then this little guide could...

From our previous article you would have known about Domain Name System (DNS). It is a naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet. It turns a user-friendly domain name like “slashsquare.org” into an Internet Protocol (IP) address like 30.67.327.78. Computers use this kind of address to identify each other on the network. 1. Open “Command Prompt”...

Earlier we shared a video for understanding DNS in Simple English and now we are going to show you how to find DNS Name server of a domain name easily. If you would like to know about the Authoritative Name Server of any web domain, the one that will most definitely know the location of the IP address of that domain, follow these steps. If you are not sure about what DNS is, The Domain Name System...

When you look from outside, all you do is, type a web address (say hostlater.com) using your browser and it opens a web page. But there is a fantastic process behind this, using Domain Name System (DNS). DNS takes a name like hostlater.com and translates it into an IP address to find content on the web. You can check this video below to understand DNS in Simple English. The Domain Name System (DNS)...

Apart from SOPA and PIPA, you’ll have several reasons to migrate your domain names to a new registrar. A domain name transfer is the process of changing the designated registrar of a domain name. Reasons why you want to transfer could be, 1. You want to keep all the domains on a single domain registrar. 2. You have hosting account with a particular registrar. 3. You brought domain names for...