This can be achieved by either directly submiting your URL to search engines through using a submission service such as free submission service on our site . Free submissions

Please be careful when using automated submission tools as Search engine are penalising sites submitted in this way. Ours is manual for this very reason.

Or by linking your site to others, this is preferred way for search engine to “discover new sites”.

Ensuring you own your domain

Just because you buy a domain name doesn't mean you own it. Some less reputable suppliers register domain names in their own name. You can see who owns a domain name by using a lookup call a WHOIS search e.g WHOIS If you look at registrant details name here is legal owner. For example if you enter discountdomainsuk.com you will see legal owner is us – Discount Domains Ltd

Selling your domain name

Is your domain name near to expiry? Don't let it lapse without offering it for sale first, there are lots of good sites who only charge if your domain sells. You might be pleasantly surprised, domain names have fetched a $1 million before now!

Clare Lawrence is CEO of Discount Domains Ltd – A leading UK provider of Domain name registration and Web Hosting services. Please feel free to re-publish this article provided this reference box remains together with a hyperlink to http://www.discountdomainsuk.com Clare can also be contacted on clare@discountdomainsuk.com.

You can check status of any registration by doing a WHOIS look-up that will indicate that domain name is DETAGGED.

How can DETAGGED domain name be retagged?

To restore a DETAGGED domain name, registrant will need to pay a tag change fee of £15+VAT as of January 2004 to nominet via a registration service. Nominet charge a higher fee to deal direct with owner.

Can I register a DETAGGED domain name?

A DETAGGED domain name is still registered to original registrant, and it remains as such until it is either renewed by current registrant, or it is cancelled. Once cancelled, it immediately becomes available for registration on a first-come, first-served basis.

How long does it take for a DETAGGED domain name to become available for registration?

Nominet contact owner of each domain that is detagged and confirms if they wish to renew or allow each name to lapse.

If domain is allowed to lapse then domain name will be suspended after 21 days and then cancelled between 6-8 weeks after that.

For further information please visit Nominet http://www.nominet.org.uk