Registered Domain Names

how many registered domain names out there? How many of them are active?
zvero, what a lame, baseless joke, the # should be much larger as my own crawler in 24h would visit over 5'000'000

There are 45 million .com domains

How do I transfer ownership of a domain registered with Yahoo?
I have a couple of domain names registered with Yahoo! Domains. I'd like to list them on eBay and sell them but I can't figure out how I would transfer ownership after the sale. I don't see it in the menus anywhere and the search of the help doesn't yield any helpful answers. Can anyone tell me how this works using Yahoo! Domains? Thanks.

This section of the Y! Help pages should help: "If you decide to transfer your domain away from Yahoo!, you'll need your authorization code..." http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/domains/authcode/authcode-02.html "...give your authorization code to your new provider, who will need it to verify the move..." http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/domains/authcode/authcode-03.html

How can I find out what other domain names a registar has registered in their name?
Thanks, sam... Now I need to know WHAT ELSE that person has registered.

Try doing a reverse who is search by name. Use: www.domaintools.com service. You have to pay but there aren't too many other options.

how do i start my own wiki? i already have a domain name registered but i dont know how to do the rest?
i have no idea how to down load the wikipedia software or how to put in on to my registered domain name.

You've got yourself a domain, but does your hosting provider accept PHP scripts? If not, then you can't install your own Wiki site. First you'll want to know what kind of Wiki software you want. There's small ones which are somewhat simple to install, such as PmWiki, which has instructions at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Installation . The one Wikipedia uses is called MediaWiki, and it is a very big file, which requires more work, especially if you want it to behave like it does on Wikipedia. The software could be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki The installation details can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation

If I have registered my public domain names with go daddy, how can I make sure icann is informed of the new ip
I was hosting through go daddy and have registered my domain name from there. I now want to set up my own web server, and want to know how to notify icann about the dns server ip address change. Do I just have to contact icann directly and modify this?

Go Daddy is an accredited registrar for ICANN. So, it should already be taken care of for you. Take a look on their site if you have questions on it. http://www.icann.org/registrars/accredited-list.html

Where are all the internet domain names registered? Is there one central place?


There is no one central place for name registrations - there are several. Network Solutions is one, Go-Daddy is another. These are only two examples, but are probably the two largest registrars. Once the name is registered, it must be resolved via DNS (Distributed Name Services). Here again, someone must host your name. And again, the above two companies will do it for you, or your service provider can. For DNS, there is - in effect - one central place - because the top level domains (like .com, .biz, .org) each have a "well known" fixed IP address where to start. These are usually served by multiple computers residing at one address (load sharing), but as far as your system is concerned, it only needs to know how to get to the root to start the search. In practice, your computer does not start with the root ro resolve a name - instead it goes to your internet service provider's DNS server. These ISP DNS servers will cache many popular name / address translations - and then will go to the root servers only as required to resolve a new name, or every so often to verify a cached name. In this way, the root servers are not overloaded as each query comes along.

I have registered a domain name and want to make my own webpage site. How?
I have recently registered a domain name and would like to create a website to go with it but am TOTALLY stumped. I registered the domain with atspace.com. I have no idea what to do now. Can anyone help? Thanks!

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How can I host my own email server without using a registered domain name?
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