Yahoo Domain Name informations

How to Register a Dot Com Domain

By Meg Jernigan, eHow Contributing Writer

Registering a dot com domain

name is the first step in creating your own Web presence. It ensures you own that domain name for as long as you keep it registered. Prices and services offered vary by registrar. Discounts are sometimes available, and if you choose to register a name with a different extension such as .net or .org, you might find a cheaper alternative.

Step 1

Pay Go Daddy to register your domain name. Go Daddy frequently offers special deals if you buy one of their other products such as website hosting or shopping cart technology.
Step 2

Register your domain with Yahoo for a sliding scale fee. Rates can be lower if you buy packages. If you get a full website with Yahoo, the domain registration is free.
Step 3

Sign up for free email and URL forwarding when you register your domain with Namecheap. Namecheap also offers domain reactivation, transfer and renewal, and website hosting.
Step 4

Start to create a Web presence by registering your domain with Hostway. You get a site-building tool, control panel, parking page and domain forwarding. Hostway also offers Web hosting, ecommerce solutions and Web design.
Step 5

You can also register with 1&1. The registration includes marketing and site building tools, domain forwarding and DNS tools. The site offers five free domains if you sign up for a Web hosting package.
Step 6

Use Netfirms' registration service. The service includes domain management through a control panel and domain privacy. Complete Web hosting packages are also available.

How to Block Domain Address in Yahoo

By Janet Vacanti, eHow Contributing Writer

Today's email providers like Yahoo

give their subscribers plenty of tools to ward off spam. Adding email addresses to a spam filter usually does the trick. Some companies get around your spam filter by simply using alternate user-names in front of their domain name. When this happens, you can stop the additional spam by adding the company's domain name to your blocked list.

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Computer
Internet connection

Step 1
Log into your Yahoo email account.
Step 2
Click with your mouse on the "options" link at the top of your Yahoo in-box page. Click again on "more options" if necessary to get the full options menu to appear.
Step 3
Look on the left side of the page and click on the word "spam."
Step 4
Type into the the box marked "blocked email addresses" the domains that you want blocked. Click on the "add" button to save them to your list.
Step 5
Click on the "save changes" button at the top of the page and then the "return to mail" button to get back to your in-box.
Step 6
Repeat steps one through five anytime you want to add more domain names to your spam filter list.

How to Change a Yahoo Domain

By Suvro Banerji, eHow Contributing Writer

Yahoo! offers you domains for reasonable rates that you can use for your personal blog or website. Yahoo! even offers you 24/7 customer service

, a web page to get started and domain locking to prevent hackers from getting into your account. You may choose to change your Yahoo! domain if you are not satisfied with the existing one or if you feel it is not relevant to your website anymore.

Instructions

Step 1
Sign into your Yahoo! account by entering your Yahoo! user name and password.
Step 2
Locate the domain name you wish to change under the subheading "Manage My Services." Click the "Domain Control Panel" link next to the domain name.
Step 3
Click the "Manage Advanced DNS Settings" link under "Domain Control Panel."
Step 4
Click the "Change Name Servers" button.
Step 5
Select the existing domain server name in the list and press the "Delete" key. Type the new name in the box. Hit the "Submit" button to finish.

How to Register Domains with Yahoo

By Max Hunter, eHow Member

Register your website's

domain name with Yahoo to make it easier for customers to find your website online - it's quicker and cheaper than you think.

Instructions

Step 1
If you have decided to start a small business or have an idea for a website, one of the most important things you will need to do is come up with a good domain name. A domain name is the address that customers type into the address bar to get to a website. Many common domain names have already been taken, but there are a few more possibilities if you use an extension other than .com. For example, .net, .org, .biz, .info, and .us have becoming increasingly popular.
Step 2
Go to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/ and purchase a web hosting package. This is necessary for you to register your domain name (unless you are providing the web hosting services yourself). When you purchase the web hosting package from Yahoo, you will get the domain name, email and 24/7 tech support. If you are planning to sell items online, you may to consider purchasing a Yahoo Merchant Starter plan (which includes shopping cart software capabilities and site statistics, in addition to the domain name and web hosting platform). As of January 2010, Yahoo Merchant Starter plans start at $39.95 plus transaction fees which are a percentage of total sales (typically 1.5%).
Step 3
Start promoting your website and products. There are various tools that Yahoo offers which helps you to drive traffic to your site and improve your search engine optimization.