If you are new to domain names and dont how mapping takes place between the domain and the webhost where you are hosting your website here is some information about that and also resources where you can try your hands on setting up a domain for free!.

Basics :

DNS (Domain Name Server) allow the users to use readable domain names instead of ip address to visit any website. eg : www.cool-blogger.com instead of typing 66.249.91.121 .
It will contain all the information on where a particular domain points.

CNAME or canonical name allow the users to have many aliases for a given address.
Eg : blog.example.com as an alias of www.blogservice.com which may belong to someone else.
Blogger.com allows their users to use this feature for pointing their domain to the blog they have hosted.

Have a try :

If you have never tried using a custom domain names and dont feel comfortable in spending money on your first domain name without having any knowledge of the domain settings panel and the respective settings you can Register a free co.cc domain which will also provide u settings panel where you can add DNS server address and cname,mx,A records etc.

Once u register a domain there, register for a free webhosting service like 100webspace . In the control panel u may have the option for adding domain names to your account. Add the registered co.cc domain name there. You may find the DNS server addresses there, copy the dns addresses and add them into the co.cc settings panel under DNS option. Go to your webhost, using the filemanager enter the folder with name of the domain. create a test index.html file with some content. It may take upto 48 hours for all the changes to take place so u wont find your domain ready as soon as these settings are complete. After some period of time you will see your test page up, which means the domain is working properly. Once you are familiar with all settings you will find it easy managing your bought domains.

When buying new domains, i prefer godaddy because the domains are cheap, they provides you an email with your domain and excellent services.

Google Pagerank, Age of the domain and the alexa rank are 3 significant things that u need to take care of while running ur blog. The mixture of all three can make ur blog/site a super success.

Google Pagerank :
Getting a pagerank can be sometimes a long work of patience as google accumulates the details after periodic 6 months of time. So it is better u start off as early as possible after crearting ur blog and work on building links. Link exchanging is the best way to get huge amount of backlinks. You may to pour some bucks out of your pocket to get your blog listed in different directories.
Pagerank come into picture when Selling your domain and Participating in "get paid to post" programs. Pagerank increases the value of your domain, and you can get great deals very quickly for your domain. In "get paid to post" programs, larger number of oppurtunities are available for higher pagerank domains.
Note : your blog URL with nofollow tag will not count for your backlinks. Pagerank has no relation with website traffic.

Age :
As the age of the domin increases its value also increases. It comes into picture when selling your domain.

Alexa Rank :
Alexa rank determines the traffic of your blog. This is important as these stats represent the popularity of your site. Alexa can help you when selling your domain and getting ads or sponsors for your blog.

Hope this helps :)

I had been away from the internet for a week due to some problem. And now that i was well my hands creeped first directly to the mailbox. There were hundreds of mails waiting to be read, so i went quickly through their titles. The 4th from top was a special one and caught my eyes quicly. It said "CONGRATULATIONS!!! YOUR E-MAIL HAVE WON US$1,000,000.00" . 99% of my mind believed it was a scam but there was that 1% which made me open that mail.

The mail was as below :
_____________________________________________________________________

Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Dear Winner,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was
released on the 8th of August 2008,from the Australian
International Lottery programme,which is fully based
on an electronic selection of winners using their
e-mail addresses from some sites. Your email address
was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102
and serial number 7741134002. This batch draws the
lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus
number 17,which consequently won the lottery in the
second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of
US$1,000,000.00 (ONE MILLION DOLLARS) in cash
credit file ref: ILP/HW47509/09 from the total cash
prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this
category. All participants were selected through a
computer balloting system drawn form Nine hundred
00thousand E-mail addresses from Canada,
Australia,United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East,
Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotion program which is conducted annually. This
Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomerate
of some multinational companies as part of their
social responsibility to the citizens in the
communities where they have an operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within
our European representative office in Amsterdam, Holland
as indicated in your play coupon and your
prize of US$1,000,000.00 will be released to you from
this regional branch office in NIGERIA. We hope that
with part of your prize, you will participate in our
end of year high stakes for US$1.3Billion
international draw.To file for your claim, please
contact our claims department through the claims
agent:

Name: Mr.Howard Greg
Tell: +234 803-2467781
E-mail: howard_greg@hotmail.com

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number
which can be found on the top left corner of this
notification as well as your full name, address and
telephone number to help locate your file easily.For
security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this
information confidential from the public until your
claim is processed and your prize released to you.This
is part of our security protocol to avoid double
claiming and unwarranted taking advantage of this
programme by non-participants or unofficial
personnel.Note: all winnings MUST be claimed by the
31st September, 2008; otherwise all funds will be returned
as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organizations.

ANYBODY UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFIED.

YOURS SINCERELY,

Mr.James Ross
Australian Lottery International (co-ordinator).

_______________________________________________________________

Ah thats a lot to be read ! So did i really win that prize money? Thats all a scam !. First thing is that, why will someone care to to distribute such a large amount for free? It sounds so absurd when you dont pay a single penny for a lotery ticket and your email wins you such a large prize, what will the organisation get by distributing such huge prizes to unknown people? Rather such orgaisations would prefer donating it to charity organizations. Second thing you would ask is if it is a scam then why will they waste their time in sending such emails. These emails are sent to millions of people, most of the people will be aware of the scam and you will find the mail soon in their trash but but what about the rest who do not belong to the "most"?. The real game starts when these innocent people come into their traps by replying to them by mails or calls.
The process proceeds this way :
1.They promise you to pay you your winning amount.
2.They request you to pay the shipping charges (a real huge amount) for it to be delivered to your place.
3.The winner is ready to pay those charges, the big shipping or handling charges seems to be small amount infront of the huge prize.
4.The scammers recieve that amount.
5.The winner waits waits waits.

Thats so sad :( isnt it ?

So just be beware when dealing with such huge prizes ;).
Ive replied to their mail lets see what reply i get.

When i was new in the world of internet, i tried my hands on free website/wapsite/webspace providers. Ofcourse i used to do it for pleasure and getting even a single visitor was a big thing for me. I used to read articles by fellow wap/webmasters where they unleashed the secrets of getting huge amount of visitors. To the top of the list was "Adding site to google/search engines" and it holds true even now. Later i heared about the "blog" trend which was going on web. I got a free webspace and hosted a wordpress blog there. I tried couple of times adding my blog to google and other search engines but couldnt find even a clue about my site in those search engines. I gave up and started adding my blog to directories and some of them accepted my site. I even added my blog to some of the social bookmarking sites and blog communities. About a week later what do i see? my blog is indexed by google and other search engines. I was surprised, when i manually tried adding my blog to search engines it was not included even after a month but when i added it to directories, social bookmarking sites and blog communities, asap they include it !.
Surely there was some mechanism after this.

2 months before i tried to experiment a little bit on this. I created two blogs at blogspot.com, both were on different niche and i wrote 5 articles each for both. One was kept dormant but the other was added to social bookmarking site and blog communities. After that i added both the blogs to google. After a week the 2nd blog was included in search engines but the 1st one showed no sign.
What does this mean?
The search engines cosider how well exposed you site is on the web.
If your site link is present on some other websites, search engine may index your website when it comes accross your link on those sites.

So if you site/blog is new follow these steps to get your blog quickly indexed in search engines :
1)Make your site ready to be published.
2)Add it to social bookmarking sites, blog communities and directories.
3)Now add you site to major search engines or use ping tools.

Is your account terminated for invalid click activity in an ad network?
There will be large number of people who may have gone through this and the few ones who are innocent will be the most frustrated !. Suddenly you get a mail one morning from advertising network saying your account has been terminated. You wish to contact them but there is no way you can contact them. Even if you find one there is no reply ! If you belong to the category other than those belonging to innocents group, seriously there is nothing to discuss for you. I have seen many people seeking for advice for how they can get an unban pass from the ad network and if its not possible which are the alternatives.
Ive no plans of talking about the alternatives, so what do i want to discuss in this post? If you would ask me for alternatives i would say "google dude!", you will find a big list there thats because clever people have already written on that ;).
The base question of my discussion is "Is the method employed for account termination correct?". Basically account termination occurs when many or continuous click arrive from same ip address or a same cookie user. In many cases it would be true that in the urge of increasing their account balance the account holders themselves must have made those clicks, but what if someone else have done it. Then you may fall in the innocent category. Dont you think if your rival knows about this scheme he will surely try to destroy this income source?. what then, will your appeal for unban be accepted? No for sure, unless you have a reputed site.
I think the basis on which the accounts are terminated should be changed. If multiple clicks from same ips are encountered, the clicks shouldnt be counted so the advertisers dont have to pay for those. Im writing on this issue because i dont want to see my account getting terminated this way, when there are so many predators moving around me :P .
Surely there is no loss in this scheme right?
What do you think about this matter ?