New England WebArt

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Serving Western Massachusetts and beyond

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Domain Name Availability Checker

You can use the following list of rules as a guide to help in choosing an appropriate extension for your domain name. Please note that this list does not include all possible extensions and that each registry may adopt additional rules from time to time. (Adapted from register.com website)

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GENERAL EXTENSIONS

.COM, .NET and .ORG Domain Names

• .COM - to be used for commercial and personal sites
• .NET - recommended for companies involved in Internet infrastructure
• .ORG - recommended for not-for-profit organizations
• Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
• Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
• Must have less than 63* characters, not including .COM, .NET and .ORG

* .com, .net and .org domain names exceeding a total of 26 characters are supported by most web browsers. However, certain web browsers, email programs and other Internet related applications may not support domain names over 26 characters.

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.INFO Domain Names

• .INFO - to be used for both commercial and personal sites
• Use only letters, numbers, or hyphen ("-")
• Cannot begin or end with a hyphen
• Must have at least 3 characters and less than 63 characters, not including .INFO

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