We wanted to tell all our customers and blog readers about the latest change happening in the domain name world. The company, which provides the world with .com names is raising the .com cost.   This clearly indicates that the .com domain name price will shoot up all across the world.

We have already increased the price for the new .Com domain to $9.99.

But for all existing LimeDomains customers, we are offering .com renewal at an older price of $8.99.

It might be a good time for you to renew your .com domain for a longer period as the renewal at older price may be offered only till the month of June. Post June, even the renewal rate might be normalized to $9.99

The first brick that lays the foundation of the pillar of your online presence is a domain name. When we talk about domains, it becomes important to mention top-level domain names (TLDs).

TLDs contribute considerably in the structuring of Internet. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, manages the creation of TLDs, which are operated by different registries. Each registry, like us, pays a fee to ICANN for getting the rights to operate TLDs.

Dot Com (.com)

The ‘.com’ TLD is the king of the jungle of TLDs since 1994. Nearly everyone, from individuals & SMBs to big corporate houses, who steps on the Web wishes to grab a ‘.com’ TLD at the first instance since it stands for ‘Commercial’. It reflects that the site is for commercial purpose. However, now this domain extension has become more or less a ‘defacto extension’ used by almost everyone.

Dot Net (.net)

The ‘.net’ TLD stands for ‘Network’. This is one of the original TLDs mostly used by Internet-specific providers /businesses, such as social networking websites, SEO, web hosting etc. It’s the one of the most coveted domain extensions after ‘.com’.

Dot Info (.info)

The ‘.info’ TLD stands for ‘Information’. This TLD is mostly used by information & resource-based websites, which are not involved in commercial activities. This domain extension can be used for lead generation, knowledge sharing and community building. You can use this TLD for providing information to reinforce your brand.

Dot Org (.org)

The ‘.org’ TLD stands for ‘Organization’. This domain extension is mostly used by non-commercial & non-profit organizations. This TLD can also be used for building your community & leveraging your branding endeavors to win over your potential customers.

Dot Biz (.biz)

The ‘.biz’ TLD stands for ‘Business’. This domain extension, originally created in 2001, is mostly preferred for creating business websites. This open TLD is exclusively for “bona fide business or commercial use”, and has an immense sales pitch.

Dot Name (.name)

The ‘.name’ TLD stands for ‘Name’. This domain extension, originally introduced in 2001, is mostly used by individuals, who use this domain extension to represent their real names, fictional names, display names, nicknames, pseudonyms etc. These days, this domain extension is being popularly used as a web address for Digital Identity applications.

Dot Mobi (.mobi)

The .mobi’ TLD stands for ‘Mobile’. This domain extension, created in 2005 but available for public registration since 26 September 2006, must be used for all mobile-compatible sites as per the standards. This TLD is financially supported by biggies such as Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone etc.

Dot Tv (.tv)

The ‘.tv’ is a country code top level domain (ccTLD), introduced in 1996 for the islands of Tuvalu. Its intended use is for all entities related to Tuvalu, whereas it’s promoted commercially for television/video sites. However, it can be registered for any purpose by anyone.

Dot Me (.me)

The ‘.me’ TLD is yet again a country code top level domain (ccTLD) introduced in 2007 for Montenegro. This domain extension is being promoted adequately for its global use, and become more like a personal name space. It can be registered for any purpose on the Web. However, it’s being marketed on the Web by the registrars as ‘.ME domains all about you’.

Dot Cc (.cc)

The ‘.cc’ TLD is also a country code top level domain for Cocos Islands, Australia. It was introduced in 1997, and administered by VeriSign as the ‘the next .com’. This domain extension is put to different assortment of sites, some of them especially referring to Cocos Islands.

It is expected that a dramatic change in the creation of new TLDs would be observed in 2010. We hope that many more new TLDs would flow in the New Year on the Internet, and we shall be able to offer you more of such TLDs.

Currently, LimeDomains is offering 10 major TLDs to its users at most affordable prices in the market. Register yours now!

LimeDomains officially gets launched today, I mean “officially” because as John mentioned we have been around a few months working on strengthening our platform. We’ve focused at making LimeDomains feature rich and a usable platform that offers a rich repository of open source web applications for users, who not only want to be on the web but also want to make their presence felt. We are very happy by the level of acceptance LimeDomains has generated around the world, with our minimal marketing effort.

Our vision stays the same since our inception—bringing down the cost of entry to the web to zero (yep, you read it right), by making super easy to install a gamut of open source applications such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB & many more. We completely understand that not everyone on the web is a professional webmaster, so we offered a user friendly interface that enables users to install application in just a click of a mouse.

In a few months, we have reached the milestone of 25,000 active users. These statistics reflect that we have been able to live the Lime Labs vision to a good extent. Everyone says we’re different from others, so do we and we’re putting every bit possible to prove our claim true. We’re a new entrant to this space but we promise to be the most exciting by making it easy for users to create either a 2 page website or a complete e-commerce solution by just the click of a button. Stay tuned for more exciting features, new applications and more innovations to follow.

LimeDomains…One-Click Application Hosting Solution

We may be a new entrant in domain registration and web hosting business but we’re committed to make your web experience delightful by enabling you run any application, software on your website with ease in just one click through our state-of-the-art control panel. It helps you to take control over the general look & feel of your website along with the content.

Our web hosting solutions have been garnering encouraging reviews so far and all this has become possible due to our rich suite of applications to choose from such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Geeklog, osCommerce, Coppermine, Bugzilla, Noah’s Classified, Vanilla, Zenphoto, OSDate etc., which help in creation of blogging sites, CMS, photo gallery, social networking sites, e-commerce, sites, project based, wiki etc. In case you don’t find your desired application in our list of applications, you can also upload the application using your FTP access.

We’re VeriSign secured, first ICANN accredited registrar to include powerful open source applications and a full featured hosting account with every new domain purchased/transferred. Programming languages such as Perl v-5.8.8, Python v-2.6, CGI v-1.1and MySQL v5 database are also supported by us.

It’s been quite an enjoyable ride so far that prompts us to ensure that while you avail our services, you have your peace of mind and a triumphant web presence. We offer you a ‘30-Day Money Back Guarantee’ in case you’re not satisfied with our web hosting solutions. Currently, we offer three hosting plans namely, Basic (free website hosting with every domain purchase/transfer), Standard ($4.99/month) and Premium ($9.99/month).

We hope that you’d find our web hosting solutions intuitive to use and quite affordable as per industry standards. We welcome your feedback and suggestions on the same.

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