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domain name registration

You should be comfortable with your domain name selection. A request to change your domain name after the account has been activated is subject to another set up fee. We charge a total of $19.95 to register a domain name which covers all costs associated with domain name registration for the first year. We currently bill at a rate of $19.95/year thereafter. You may also register your domain for an initial period of up to 10 years.

You can check for domain name availability from CityStar® Online's web-based form. CityStar® can register your choice of .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and/or .ws domains for $19.95 per year.

valid domain names

67 character maximum including the 4 or 5 characters used to identify the top-level domain such as .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO
may contain letters, digits, and a dash ("-")
cannot begin or end with a dash

criteria for top-level domains

The following is an extract from RFC1591 listing top-level domains.

   World Wide Generic Domains:

   COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is, companies. This TLD is the one that CityStar® recommends for all commercial Web sites.

   EDU - This domain was originally intended for all educational institutions. Many Universities, colleges, schools, educational service organizations, and educational consortia have registered here. More recently a decision has been taken to limit further registrations to 4 year colleges and universities. Schools and 2-year colleges will be registered in the country domains (see US Domain, especially K12 and CC, below).

   NET - This domain is intended to hold only the computers of network providers, that is the NIC and NOC computers, the administrative computers, and the network node computers. The customers of the network provider would have domain names of their own (not in the NET TLD). This rule has been relaxed in the last 2 to 3 years, and this TLD is now fairly generic.

   ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.

   BIZ - This new TLD is intended for commercial entities, in order to expand the number of 2nd level domains available for use as commercial Web sites.

   INFO - Another new TLD intended for commercial entities, further expanding business owners' selections available for use as commercial Web sites.

   WS - This is actually a country code (for Western Samoa, of all places), but it is being touted as "dot Web Site" and offered for use by commercial Web sites.

   United States Only Generic Domains:

   GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government office or agency. More recently a decision was taken to register only agencies of the US Federal government in this domain. State and local agencies are registered in the country domains (see US Domain, below).

   MIL - This domain is used by the US military.

   Example country code Domain: (must be registered by end user)

   US - As an example of a country domain, the US domain provides for the registration of all kinds of entities in the United States on the basis of political geography, that is, a hierarchy of

         <entity-name>.<locality>.<state-code>.US.

For example, "IBM.Armonk.NY.US". In addition, branches of the US domain are provided within each state for schools (K12), community colleges (CC), technical schools (TEC), state governement agencies (STATE), councils of governments (COG), libraries (LIB), museums (MUS), and several other generic types of entities.