Once you have decided on the cheap domain names you want, the next step is to choose a Registrar (Whonami.com, Luckyregister.com) and actually register the domain name. The most domain registrations require 5 things as below:
- Registrant Name – This is the company or individual to whom the domain name actually belongs.
- Administrative Contact – This is a person authorized to make certain changes to the domain name, such as alter the Registrant name or approve a transfer of the name to a new Registrar.
- Technical Contact – This is a person authorized to make certain changes to the domain name, such as changes to the DNS servers associated with that domain name.
- Billing Contact – This is the person to whom all bills and other correspondence will be sent.
- DNS Server Settings – This is where you specify the primary and secondary name server you would like to associate with the domain name, typically provided to you by your hosting or parking company.
It is possible to specify the same person or company for each of 1-4 above. You can (and people most often do) specify the same company or individual as the Administrative, Technical and Billing contact. Since there is very little to distinguish the roles of 2 & 3 in practice, this usually isn’t a problem.