Here’s a chance to get your business online, or to add a blog to connect and interact with customers and prospective customers.
Top Hosting Center is holding a competition. First prize is free hosting for a year, and a free domain name registration to boot. There are second and third prize hosting packages too.
All you have to do is write a blog entry about the importance of having your own domain name, as opposed to a free one such as a blogspot domain. If you have a home business, having your own domain name is crucial for credibility and …read more

My post, Don’t Let Your Home Business Domain Name Expire, about keeping track of  expiration dates, sparked an idea with  Miranda Marquit at WorkShak.  She wrote on this topic for her readers, quoted me and linked back to my post.   
You’ll find some additional information on the importance of holding onto your domain name in, Keeping Track of Your Business Domain Name.  Miranda has a wonderful comparison about your web site being your home on the Internet, and your domain name is something you rent rather than buy.  “And every so often you have to renew the lease…”
So….make sure your lease or …read more

A friend frantically spent the night transferring posts and e-book links to other sites or blogs because she found her two main web site domain names had expired.  The company she purchased them through said they couldn’t do anything about it because someone had purchased them as soon as they expired.
So whenever someone clicks on those original web site domain names to purchase e-books or learn about her business, they get a totally different web site.  Apparently the same person/company purchased both, because the graphics are the same on both even though the content is different.
One domain name even had the author’s …read more