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I had a friend ask me if I knew how to park a domain name. I've seen it done, but have never done. I told them that I may know some good people to ask.  Basically, they have a band name they are "thinking" of using; but aren't 100% sure just yet. They wouldn't being doing anything with it until after early next year. They would like to... 1-Secure the domain name 2-Have a landing page with their logo, or at a minimum "Site Coming Soon" kind of thing. 3-They would like to spend as little as possible being they are about 60/40 split on using the specific name. Any ideas/suggestions my website guru friends? I was just told, so I'm adding, they would prefer to get a domain name and landing page without having to do the whole by for a year, or monthly fees. A simple domain purchase and landing page.
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TEMPO TANTRUM: What a lead singer has when they can't stay in time.
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1-Secure the domain name
2-Have a landing page with their logo, or at a minimum "Site Coming Soon" kind of thing.
3-They would like to spend as little as possible being they are about 60/40 split on using the specific name.
There's a million websites you can buy the domain name. Just Google. 1) For my site I use SSL Catacomb Networking - Domains to reserve my domain name each year. Rates are so cheap anymore there should be no issues with shoving out a few bucks to reserve it. 2) That takes a webhost company to store your site info. I pay very little as well for that each year through Hostcherry Web Spaces. 3) They could probably get by with less than $50 to do it all. The examples I used are just for sites I've been using for over 10 years. Like I said there's a million places to find domains and hosting and some of them will do it all with one account. Your Google-foo should do it. It's an easy thing once you've done it a couple of times..... Good Luck sir!
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I was just told, so I'm adding, they would prefer to get a domain name and landing page without having to do the whole by for a year, or monthly fees. A simple domain purchase and landing page. RE: Your edit here..... Tell them it's so cheap to not worry about it. Most of these sites are set up to do an annual. Most probably won't do less than that because it's not cost effective. P.S. - There's no permanent one-time pay deals either. You pay each year or more. I think on mine I can pay up to several years at once. Since it's so cheap, I do that.
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As Steve says, there are a bunch of places to do that.
As an example, you can use iPage for $1.99 per month (for the first year - after that it goes way up). That will include a free domain name (again for the first year).
Once you have that domain name, you can transfer somewhere else (registration) once that year is up (when iPage gets more expensive).
But that would allow them to nail it down for a year for $25.
I think GoDaddy does something similar....
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One suggestion: if they already searched to ensure the domain name they want is not taken, register it RIGHT NOW. I know of some cases where the search itself seems to lead to speculators quickly securing the domain name. I don't know how they know, but it seems they do.
It's so easy to do a Coming Soon page. It's harder, but easy for those of us who code, to write a simple redirect that sends traffic somewhere else in the meantime.
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I passed along all of the info and they secured that name and hosting.
Thanks for all of the suggestions I didn't know and wouldn't have thought of.
Time to write a song...I've got Friends in Tech Places. Somehow it's lacking the country feel I was originally going for.
Seriously, thanks everyone for your help. It's greatly appreciated!
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.....after all we are all here to learn.....
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.....after all we are all here to learn..... LOl Is this an "I am Spartacus" kind of thing?
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Notes is clearly Spartacus.
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