Hey, I thought I'd share something which I experienced with Network Solutions.I'm not sure if this happens regularly, but I'll post about it anyway.Recently I designed a web tutorials/articles site. The site was called Wild Fire Web Design. Hence I was thinking of using <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.wildfirewebdesign.com">http://www.wildfirewebdesign.com</a><!-- m --> because it was available.So I went on the hunt for finding a cheap reliable web hosting plan. Foolishly, I went onto Network Solutions and entered the domain name I wanted to use, to see what the prices were. As the days went on I finally chose the host I wanted to use. which was Host smart (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://hostsmart.com.au">http://hostsmart.com.au</a><!-- m -->).So I enter in the domain name that I wanted and noticed that wildfirewebdesign.com was taken.. I tried a few variations, such as wildfiredesign, wildfirewebdesigns, firedesigns.. A whole heap.. but I noticed ALL of them were taken. At this point I was quite frustrated as my whole web site evolved around the 'fire' theme. So with frustration I used the 'whois' tool to see who had bought the web page. Surprisingly it was Network Solutions. Consequently I tried to register my domain name with them and it was available, for about 10 times the regular price! It worked out to be a hefty price for a 5 year period. So a few weeks later I changed wildfire web design to Explosive Web Design (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://explosivewebdesign.com">http://explosivewebdesign.com</a><!-- m -->) and made sure the first time I entered the name onto a web hosting site, was when I was ready to purchase it. I'm not sure if Network Solutions are good or not, but I wouldn't suggest placing your domain details into them, or any domain hosting company until you are ready to purchase it!Hope this is useful.
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