Domain names are the real estate of the net. Property is the basis for much of the wealth historically in the offline world so it is hardly surprising that domains are the basis for wealth in the online world. In this way, domains are an investment and we all know how important it is to protect your investments.

Network Solutions has a cool new free application that conducts a domain name analysis for your domain name. It gives you a domain name scorecard and gives you hints on how to improve and protect the value of your domain investment. The advice I got was to take advantage of other domain names to help increase the value of my main domain name.

For example, I got suggestions to pick up domain names from popular keywords on this site. I also got advice to domain typos as well as the .com and .net version of this domain name. I hadn’t given much thought about this before maybe because I hadn’t thought that ax697 was a brand, but looking at my success, I think it is.

I know just have to see how many of the recommended solutions that I should implement for this site. I think I could find some increased success with my site if I did.

It seems like people have many questions for me when they find out that I do a lot of my work on the internet. People like to ask me, what is a domain name? Simply put, it is a way to translate the numerical internet addresses into an easy to remember name. You can choose from many different suffixes, also called top level domains, when you make your name. The five main suffixes are .com, .biz, .info, .net and .org. There are also suffixes available for different countries.

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