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What is and why should
register a domain on Internet?
Domain is a name used to localize and identify computer
sets on Internet. Computers, and why not to say sites,
are identified by numbers. Nevertheless it won’t
make sense to memorize that 200.255.108.6 is the identification
from a certain enterprise site on Internet. Instead
and to make localization easier to the visitors, a name
is registered, the domain (e.g. byweb.pt, that should
be divulged as www.byweb.pt).
Thus it is possible to understand that register a domain
is so important as register a brand. It is better to
remember that to register a brand in RNPC (National
Register of Collective People) does not assure the right
to an Internet domain register.
Some other important issues of registering a domain:
- Strengthen the enterprise image
- It is easier to remember www.myenterprise.pt than
www.myenterprise.server.pt or www.server.pt/~myenterprise
- The changing of the enterprise’s site to a
new server does not imply the need to do again the
enterprise’s stewardship and to inform the clients,
suppliers and friends of the new address.
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Who can register a
domain on Internet?
NATIONAL DOMAINS (.pt)
Collective people, public entities with administration
autonomy, businessman/woman in his/her name, liberal
professionals and titled people of registered brands
on national register, communitary or international or
request of brand register can register a domain .pt.
For further information, go to the site
of FCCN (Fundação para a Computação
Científica Nacional), (National Foundation to
the Scientific Computation), which is the competent
entity for the management of the pt. domain register
services.
INTERNATIONAL DOMAINS
Any enterprise or physical person can register an international
domain.
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Which are the available
categories?
NATIONAL DOMAINS (.pt)
| .net.pt |
telecommunication service’s suppliers registered
on ICP (Portugal Institute of Communications) |
| .org.pt |
organizations with no profits |
| .gov.pt |
entities that integrate the Government of the
Portuguese Republic’s structure |
| .edu.pt |
public education establishments and private or
co-operative education establishments |
| .int.pt |
international organizations and diplomatic representations
registered on the National Register of Collective
People |
| .publ.pt |
titled people of periodical publications registered
on the Social Communication Institute (ICS) |
| .com.pt |
without placing restrictions on the requester |
| .nome.pt |
any person with portuguese identity card |
INTERNATIONAL DOMAINS
| .com |
Commerce in general |
| .org |
non-governmental entities with no profits |
| .net |
servers of communication physical means |
International domains can be used without correlativeness
with the activity. Thus, an enterprise can be .net without,
necessarely, having an authorization of the regulamentation
entity to work as a telecommunication services provider.
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How many domains can I
register?
NATIONAL DOMAINS (.pt)
To national domains, please, search the registration
rules on FCCN
site
INTERNATIONAL DOMAINS
There isn’t a maximum number of domains to be
registered for international domains (.com, .org and
.net).
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What are the rules that
a domain name should obey?
NATIONAL DOMAINS (.pt)
- Minimum size 2 and maximum charaters 63
- Valid names for domains are composed by alpha-numerical
characters, this is, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j,
k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, 0,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Dash (-) is also allowed,
but it can’t be in the begin or in the end of
a name
- Accentuation is not valid.
Further information on FCCN
site.
INTERNATIONAL DOMAINS
- Minimum size 2 and maximum charaters 63, including
the category;
- Valid names for domains are composed by alpha-numerical
characters, this is, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j,
k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z, 0,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Dash (-) is also allowed,
but it can’t be in the begin or in the end of
a name
- Accentuation is not valid.
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How much is the domain
maintenance cost?
NATIONAL DOMAINS (.pt)
There are two different prices to register a domain:
a submission price and a biennial maintenance price,
with the exception of .com.pt that only has a biennial
maintenance price.
For .pt domains and sub-domains .net.pt, .gov.pt, .org.pt,
.edu.pt, .int.pt and .publ.pt
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Submission – 29€ |
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Biennial maintenance – 58€ |
For sub-domain .nome.pt
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Submission – 10€ |
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Biennial maintenance – 25€ |
For sub-domain .com.pt
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Biennial maintenance – 58€ |
INTERNATIONAL DOMAINS
To register any international domain (.com, .org, .net),
you can choose one of the several registrars through
InterNIC. (E.g. www.networksolutions.com)
Each Registrar has its own receiving methology. Almost
everyone of them work with an annual renewal tax and
they can be paid by credit card.
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How to register my domain?
[byweb] might provide your enterprise register next
to the competent entities.
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What is lodgement?
Lodgement is a kind of service offered by some sites
and servers so that people connected to internet might
visit their website.
To say, for example, that your site is lodged on [byweb]
means that the site’s files were copied to byweb’s
computers, which are computers configured specifically
for that: to be acceded through internet by other computers
and allow to visualize the hosted pages by its public.
That kind of service is needed on the majority of cases,
because the costs to install and maintain a server and
an under-structure are very high.
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