Domain Names $

So, what is a domain name?

A domain name is a unique name associated with a website.  Amazon.com, Yahoo.com, and EZNetTools.com are all domain names. Many of the most domain names end with a .com because they are commercial companies.

There are many other suffixes such as .net [network] .edu [education] .gov [government] and .org [organization, nonprofit].

Individual countries also have suffixes such as .DE [Germany], .LY [Libya], .CN [China], etc.

How to transfer an existing domain name to EZ-NetTools.com

If you didn't buy your domain name from EZ-NetTools you'll need to point your domain at our Nameservers.  They are You can generally call up your domain host and give them the above information to make it work. Most domain sites will also have an interface for doing it yourself.

General Domain Information

What is a Domain Name?

Domain names are a useful way for people to find websites. Most people know that to buy a book from Amazon, you need to type www.amazon.com into the address box of your web browser. If you want to do a search, people will type in www.google.com or www.yahoo.com, or www.bing.com. These addresses are domain names.

You can get your own domain name for your website!

While we think it is a great idea for you to have your own domain name, it is optional. Getting your own domain name will make it much easy for people to find your web site.

What if you Don't Have a Domain Name?

People can still get to your web site even if you do not have a domain name. When your account is created, we assign you a subdomain name. Your subdomain name is appended to our domain name, abc.eznettools.com. For example, if your subdomain name is “majesticscenes”, then your internet address would be abc.eznettools.com/majesticscenes.

How Do You Get a Domain Name?

You can purchase the rights to use a domain name for a specified length of time, usually for one year. After that time has expired, you will need to renew your rights to the domain name. You never really own the name, just the rights to use it for a certain length of time. You buy these rights from a registrar, like EZ-NetTools. So you can buy your domain name through us. There are many other good domain name registrars such as Godaddy, Tucows, and Network Solutions. The prices vary between registrars.

You can purchase your domain name from any of these registrars and it will work with your EZ-NetTools web site. The advantage of using EZ-NetTools as your registrar is that it will be simpler to configure everything because we will do it for you.

You can search to see if the domain you want is available. Enter the domain name below. You may want to purchase multiple for your web site. Often companies will purchase common misspellings of their company names along with the normal spelling. That way if anyone misspells the domain name, they will still find it.