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Apr 30
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SEO Mire has migrated servers from Key Rack Research’s lovely Debian network to that of Name.com’s Rapid Blog service. We registered the domain through Name.com, and we then used their Rapid Blog service to be a more permanent home for SEO Mire.
It would be wrong of me to not mention that Rapid Blog is user friendly and perfect for all bloggers, beginner to expert. Rapid Blog is a centrally managed WordPress.org installation. WordPress.org is the most popular blogging software today, and offers state-of-the-art publishing platforms. Not only is it used by bloggers across the world, but it is incredibly simple to use.
By using Rapid Blog through Name.com, the price was right, the setup was quick and easy, and Name.com automatically upgrades my blogging software for me! This was actually a huge plus, as we like to keep KRR focused on more geeky tasks than keeping blog software updated, although if they wrote their own blog software that would be pretty geeky. Anyhow, we never have to install, configure or manage the actual WordPress software, just our content – blog posts, images, videos, et cetera.
In all honestly, we are absolutely head over heals with Name.com. Let’s see, we first used Network Solutions back when there were no other options. Then we used AIT, which went downhill fast. After them, we went to GoDaddy. We, and i emphasis, I, did not like GoDaddy, but they had the best prices around, offered decent enough service, and they are a local company to us here in Arizona. When GoDaddy overstepped their authority with SecLists.org we had enough with GoDaddy. (For information about what GoDaddy did to SecLists.org visit NoDaddy.com.) So, we started using DirectNIC as our primary internet domain registrar. The huge problem with DirectNIC is that they missed the memo to be competitive. DirectNIC charged us $15 per domain per year! We paid it just to get away from GoDaddy, but we did not like it. Another thing we did not like about DirectNIC was they charge for DNS services. So, shopping we went, and we found Name.com. Name.com has been a beacon of how things should be in the internet domain registration industry. When all is going wrong, we can glance over at Name.com and know that there is still hope for this universe.
I do not know exactly what a Domain Operations Manager at an internet domain registrar does, but before i started using Name.com i asked them if there was anything evil in their agreements. Here is what they said:
As far as I know, there is nothing evil in our registration agreement. We pride ourselves on excellent customer service, easy to use customer interface, and very competitive pricing.
That was August, 28th, 2008. I have been using their services since then, migrating domains into their network, and finding new reasons to confirm my decision to use them was a good one. We have been around the block as far as this whole internet thing is concerned, and Name.com is the best internet domain registrar in existence!
I mentioned one area where DirectNIC dropped the ball, which is charging their clients extra to manage their DNS. Name.com does not charge me for the pleasure of managing my DNS configurations! In fact, their DNS management services set the bar even higher by having nearly immediate change! With most other nominal internet domain registrars their DNS management services take hours or even days to take effect. The common excuse given is that they have their servers configured to make changes at midnight or some other interesting time to put a lighter load on their servers. Boo hoo. By using Name.com’s DNS management services i can tweak a DNS entry, change tabs in my Mozilla Firefox browser to the site of the domain i just modified, refresh, and the changes have already happened! Of course there may be issues with propagation still, they have not figured out how to bypass that, yet. Seriously though, if your box has DNS cached, you can quickly flush your DNS cache, and the changes will be visible. This is amazing on so many levels! Having our own DNS servers, beautiful ns1.krr.org and ns2.krr.org, which are going to go offline soon, we have been spoiled at being able to jump into the engine compartment make things right and bounce services on a whim. Name.com allows us, and our clients to be quick, to make changes when we need changes to happen, and to stay ahead of any competition.
Utilizing the amazing speed at which Name.com’s DNS management services take effect, Name.com offers Google Apps services directly from their user control panel. So, you can buy a domain from Name.com, select it from your control panel, and in pretty much two clicks, and i mean they are just that, clicks, no stupid typing non-sense, just click, click, and you have Google Apps enabled! In that second click, Name.com modifies your DNS records, which we already mentioned is blazing fast, and they handle the major parts of setting up the account with Google. All that is left is to pick a username, and something else, but that is on Google. From start to finish, you could buy a new domain, setup Google Apps, which will handle your e-mail and whatever other services you use of Google’s, and you could get your blog up and running in under five (5) minutes, ten if you are feeling a little lazy and take a five minute nap.
So, here we are, using Name.com entirely for this domain, and the few other domains that we have Name.com forwarding, for free and in classic amazing form, to this domain.
What does all of this have to do with search engine optimization? Everything. We have accounts with a plethora of internet domain registrars. Remember i said we have been around the block with this whole internet thing? We use lame internet domain registrars for various projects and we despise every second of it. Everything on the internet goes back to internet domain registrars. Any self respecting perfectionist will make certain that the entire project is acceptable. Would you want a critical website which you are investing money into like there is no tomorrow to be registered with an organization that oversteps their authority and will drop your domain because someone did not play nice? No way! I want to know that every aspect of every project that i am involved with is handled at a superior level. Name.com allows me to know their side is taken care of, and i can focus on the rest of the project. I may use Name.com’s free DNS management services, URL forwarding services, blog hosting services, expired and deleted names services, sub account management services, bulk management features, and whatever else they may offer, but i do so knowing it is done right, the first time, that they are there to fix it if anything goes out of line, and that i can depend on them. This all translates to a stellar SEO platform on which to build.
Migrate your domains over to Name.com. Prepare to be amazed.
