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Selecting a right domain name for your new business website is the most important decision for any webmaster. For one, selecting the actual name itself is hard, since you want to choose something that is short and concise, suits your business, and which is easy to remember.

After choosing the suitable name for your business website, the second most important is to decide the domain name extension of your website. Which extension should you choose a .com, .net, .biz, .ca, or any of the other extensions available out there?

As .com and .net are the most popular extensions, this is an easy choice for most of the webmasters. If you are in the UK, you’ll probably want to have.co.uk extension, whereas if you’re in Argentina you’d likely choose .com.ar if not .com.

But if your first choice is already taken, your secondary extension should depend more on what your business is about than anything else.

For example, if you are running an educational or nonprofit organization, you’d be more likely to take an .org than someone who is running an adult website.

Here are a couple of suggestions about the popular domain name extensions:

• .com – The well-known and most common choice. Alternatives for other countries include .co.uk and .com.ar.

• .net – The 2nd most popular and common choice, little bit less professional than .com. A perfect choice for business and personal websites.

• .org – Mainly used by organizations and non profits but commonly used as an alternative for .com or .net when those choices are not available.

• .info/.biz/.name – Slightly unpopular choices for less professional websites. These are alright if you really want to keep the domain name of your choice but .info, .biz, and .name doesn’t seems to be professional like the others.

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Did you ever try to figure out which web hosting company is hosting those extreme traffic websites? Here is a very easy way to checkout who is the host of a particular website.

Who is Hosting This? – Is a very simple and easy web service which provides you the host name of a particular web site. The reason I like it very much because, WHOIS database and other web site checking tools don’t provide you a clear info about that website.

You just need to enter a website address and this nifty tool will show you the web host provider of that website. It will not provide you the web hosts of the extreme large sites like Google.com & Yahoo.com, etc. as they have their own IP address ranges and uses their own servers.

Following are some great webmaster tools to find out domain name and DNS info.

Netcraft Web Server Query – This tools is used to find out the web sites operating system (OS), web server, and a graphic view of the time Type a website URL and Netcraft will tell you the site’s operating system, web server, and a graphical view of the time when last reboot was done for each of the computer’s serving that web site.

DomJax – Used to check the availability of a domain name and also gives an automatic Whois report for any domain that’s taken – just hover the mouse over the domain name and DomJax pops up a neat “thought bubble” which contains the details of that particular domain like who is the owner of that domain, expiry date and way to contact the owner.

AJAX DNS – Is a superb bunch of common DNS commands and tools packed in a non-geeky interface. See all DNS records and Reverse DNS records for a domain, HTTP headers, ping a domain or view the whois details for a domain.

Next time, don’t forget to figure out these cool little tools, to find the hosting info of a web site.

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