Article 1: Domain Name Registration Alert

Your web site that you've worked hard to establish could be in jeopardy from cyber squatters. A cyber squatter is someone with no interest in a name who registers it as a domain name in order to offer to sell it to someone who does---this is the most common source of grief with domain names on the Internet. Cyber squatters usually try to register close variants of a domain name in hopes of selling it to the registrant, escalating the situation by posting pornography on the copycat name to motivate the registrant to buy the name.

The legal expense can be too costly to pursue. Just starting legal fees are $1000 up, and there is no guarantee the deciding powers will rule in your favor. If you have not registered the dash version of your domain, you are open right now to unethical cyber squatters. A dash version is domain you have registered without dashes placed anywhere in the domain, which s long enough to be registered with a - (dash) symbol inserted between letters, words, numbers, syllables, using the same exact spelling.

The solution is simple: register all domain extensions of your important name, including the same versions of your name with any dashes in between.

With some registries charging $35 or more per name, the simple protective strategy is often out of the financial reach of most. However, at Register-Domain-Name-Store.com our prices are as low as $4.95 and .coms are only $7.85. Now there is no excuse for you not to protect your valuable business from unethical cyber squatters.

Use the above Domain Search box to check if the version of your domain name with dashes in-between has not already been grabbed by a cyber squatter planning to force you to purchase the name to protect your domain name. If you find it unregistered, nab it right now, as any delay can leave you vulnerable to the unpleasant, costly, time-consuming, and even sometimes embarrassing experience with a cyber squatter.

A ruthless cyber squatter may even set up shop on the dash version of yourdomain.com, as your-domain.com, stealing your customers from you, riding on your advertising, acting as if they were you.

This is true no matter what kind of business you decide to start up. Whether marketing or religion, there are cyber squatters waiting to ride on your coattails. In the past it was prohibitive to pay for all the versions of your domain name. You just had to take your risks. But Register-Domain-Name-Store.com has rates so low it is now feasible to accomplish. If you cannot afford to register all the versions of your name at once, we urge you to do what you can now, and then come back as soon as you can to register (and protect), the remaining versions of your domain name (.net, .org, .ws, .name, .info, etc).

The best strategy is to protect all versions of your name, if this is a domain name you intend to create a business with. Registering all versions of your domain is affordable and much cheaper than trying to sue a cyber squatter, or meet their high buy price. Not registering more than one version of a domain name, and thereby protecting against pirates and cyber squatters, is a common oversight made when registering new domain names.

Save yourself grief and protect all versions of your domain. The minimum versions you should register are the extensions common in the United States of America, which are:

yourdomain.com, your-domain.com
yourdomain.info, your-domain.info
yourdomain.us, your-domain.us
yourdomain.net, your-domain.net
yourdomain.org, your-domain.org
yourdomain.ws, your-domain.ws
yourdomain.name, your-domain.name
yourdomain.biz, your-domain.biz

You may try to make it financially easier for yourself by staggering the time you register, by days, or weeks apart, but please be advised that each minute that passes is a gamble you are taking a cyber squatter will beat you to it, in hopes to force money from you later on far more than the few dollars it would take you now to register at our low-cost prices.