If you require sales assistance, please call us at 1-888-642-9675 and a representative will be happy to help you, or, please send an e-mail to customerservice@networksolutions.com.

InterNIC forms for adding, changing and deleting contact and registration information for domains registered through Network Solutions:

• Manage my account at NetworkSolutions.com
• Change anything associated with a registered domain
• Change the registrant's address, change one of the contacts who manage a domain, or change primary and/or secondary domain name servers (DNSs)
• Change information about a contact who is managing a domain -- http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/makechanges/itts/handle
• Change Registrar to VeriSign
• Telephone to VeriSign
• Make payment to Network Solutions for renewal of domain registrations
• Pay Network Solutions for a new domain name
• To register or update information about a name server (not likely except for ISPs) -- http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/makechanges/itts/host
• Change a registrant's name.
• Change a domain name record.
• Add or modify info related to a contact NIC handle.
• Request a domain name status report.
• Register a new domain name with Network Solutions.
• Register a new domain name with Network Solutions. (2nd URL)

• top-level domains with foreign-country suffixes

Site Testing

• Detect signal-to-noise ratio and resistance in cable signal
• DNSReport.com -- connection speed analysis
• http://www.holistix.net
• NetMechanic Web Host Testing Service
• WebGarage site testing service (login as danwebb1111)

To see if a server is on the MAPS Relay Spam Stopper list, enter its IP address here: then click .

Web Site Development Resources

HTML references for Web site developers XML resources for developers Article on Web-safe (non-dithering) colors from Microsoft's Web site Palette of Web-safe colors as a JPEG

Using FrontPage 98 Server Extensions

Microsoft's Site Builder Network

Other resources for Web site developers

Search Engines and Indices

How to achieve the highest ranking by the search engines
WebMonkey's article on search engine ranking
 

Google.com
Submit a URL to Google.com

Site Promotion

a list of the top search engines and keyword analysis tools

How to achieve the highest ranking by the search engines

Tools for Keyword Analysis and Search Engine Optimization
-- analysis of the search strings most commonly entered into search engines

• MarketZone's Keyword Analysis links
• 7Search.com's keyword suggestion tool
• SearchFeed.com
• WordTracker.com keyword reports -- $230/year to access their database
• Google's AdWords -- alternatives, but no counts or rankings
• Webmaster-Toolkit.com -- Search Engine Optimization Tools
• Analyze any Web page for the most-commonly occurring words

link popularity (how many other URLs link to a specified URL) as a factor in how a page is ranked

Manual vs. Automated Submission to Search Engines and Directories

SiteInspector -- announce for free

Register-It site registration (free for 12 search engines)

Submit-It site registration($60 per 2 URLs)

About metatags for encoding spider chow to improve your search results: 

http://www.goto.com/d/search/p/clickheretofind/?Keywords=metatags

http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatags.html

Enter the general keyword "metatags" at Metacrawler.com.

Hosting

Check out http://parcom.net. They offer shared hosting on either Windows or Linux for about $4 per month. (I strongly recommend Windows.) They also offer a great rate of about $60 per month for a dedicated server that handle probably 100 domains -- that's the same as the cost of hosting 3 domains at Interland. This may be in my future if I feel confident in managing the server myself or paying them to do it. Their approach to tech support is thin: chat or e-mail only. No phone calls accepted. They'll sell you management of a dedicated server. I don't know the rate.  Maury King's http://ipaintglass.com is hosted there as of 11/1/2002.  (Parcom.net's contacts page, and partners list)

The Top-Rated Hosting Companies

See the 25 top-rated domain hosting companies at http://www.hostindex.com/voteresults.shtm.

Interland.net is rated #9. I'm considering changing to:

1. WebHosting.com <http://www.webhosting.com> -- WebHosting.com has clearly marked themselves as a leader in web hosting products. Their hosting packages offer a powerful combination of performance, affordability, and 24 hr. technical support.

2. Verio <http://home.verio.net/services/webhosting.cfm> -- Verio is among the web's largest hosting providers and helps businesses to realize Internet results. They offer an immense range of product offerings and a leading network infrastructure.

3. HostPro <http://www.hostpro.com> -- HostPro frequently ranks among the world's best web hosts. A division of Micron, HostPro offers affordable hosting options from $19.95/month. New hosting data centers build onto their top-notch operations.

Awards received by HostPro: http://www.hostpro.net/company/awards.htm

Hotbot search for hosting companies

What I'll be looking for is:
1. quality of e-mail server software that supports access through the Web
2. accessibility of 24x7 technical support
3. Web-based domain administration (e.g., add/change users, change permissions, set up ODBC data sources, cycle FP Server Extensions, enable/disable anonymous FTP)
4. special features to support resellers with multiple domains (transaction lists, renewal dates, etc.)
5. E-commerce options
6. traffic analysis (such as WebTrends)
7. support for generating e-mails from a Active Server Page (ASP)
8. price per domain per month
9. DNS support for http://danwebb.com as well as http://www.danwebb.com
10. an assigned sales rep.
11. effective method of communicating with the Billing Department
12. features compared with Interland's
13. cost of having a dedicated server to support all the domains I host as a reseller
14. (If you have features or services that are most important to you that aren't on this list, please let me know.)

To move to a new hosting company, this is the process I envision:
1. Start a new domain (e.g., SoCalFMG.com, mediservrx.com or hanawebb.com), copy the content from danwebb.com to the new domain, and test the heck out of it.
2. If I like my experience after a month, I'll start moving domains over to the new host as their renewal dates come up or if they want to move earlier to get the advantages of the new hosting environment earlier.
3. When I have enough domains moved to the new hosting company to justify a dedicated server, I'll make that leap at my own expense.

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