It’s the address people type to reach you. Ours is spiderhosting.net. You need one before you can have a website or an email address at your own business name, and a gmail.com address on a truck or a business card costs you jobs you never hear about.

The .com, if it’s available. It’s what people type by default and what they guess when they can’t remember. If it’s gone, .net and .co both read fine, .org suits a nonprofit or an association, and .us works if you only sell in the States. Skip the clever ones — nobody remembers a .ninja.

Because the 99-cent year renews at twenty-something, and most people don’t find out until the card gets charged. Register, transfer, and renew are the same number here, and that number is on this page. You’ll know what year three costs before you buy year one.

Call 518-389-5541 or send the name through the contact form and you’ll have an answer the same day. If it’s taken we’ll tell you who holds it and whether an offer is worth making, and we’ll bring you alternatives that don’t sound like a compromise. Once you pick one, we register it and set the DNS up for you.

Yes, and there’s no charge for the move. A transfer adds a full extra year to whatever time is left, so a domain with eight months on it comes out the other side with twenty. We handle the unlock, the auth code, and the DNS cutover so your website and your email don’t go dark in the middle of it.