Your WHOIS record is a record of essential ownership information about who owns and controls domain name. It also states what Name servers domain name is pointing to. When registering your domain name or viewing your WHOIS record there are a number of terms that it is helpful to know.

WHOIS Record Terms: Registrant: The name of person/organization that registered domain name. The Registrant information also includes contact information for domain name owner.

Administrative contact: The name person/organization that will be responsible for all administrative issues pertaining to domain name, including registrant information.

Billing contact: This is name of person/organization responsible for billing issues related to domain name. Technical Contact: The Technical contact is name of person/organization that is responsible for technical issues for domain name. This information is very important! It is not unusual for Technical Contact to be registry that registered address.

Make sure you keep your Technical Contact information up to date. Registrar of record: The domain name registry that registered domain name. This name may be different from name of company you used to register domain name.

Whether error message pops up on your own computer or on a website loaded in your browser, knowing what error means can help you solve problem much faster and avoid hours of frustration (especially in a situation where nothing you do will solve problem).

The following represent some of more common error messages you may encounter while surfing Internet and what (if anything) you can do to correct situation.

Error: 404 File Not Found

This means web server cannot find file or web page you tried to pull up in your web browser.

Almost nothing you can do will correct this situation. Try hitting your web browser's "Refresh" button to see if page will load. If not, email website operator to let them know of problem and then move on.

Error: 500 Internal Error

This error usually occurs when you fill in a form on a web page (contact form, shopping cart, feedback form) and click submit button.

This means server or script handling form on server has a major problem. Again, there's nothing you can do so just email website owner and move on.

By way, resubmitting form a dozen times, banging your hand on keyboard, and yelling at your monitor won't fix problem!

Error: 408 Request Timeout

This error usually occurs when you try to download a huge file or large web page and, for whatever reason, connection times out.