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A Short Glossary for New TLD Domain Shopping

If you’ve shopped around recently for a domain name, specifically one of the new domain name extensions available, you probably have been confronted with a lot of unfamiliar lingo. With the hundreds of new extensions presently being rolled out, shoppers are now navigating new choices that weren’t available before with the .com/.net world. This terminology is important, because it affects what you will pay for a domain name. As a general rule of thumb, the earlier you try to get dibs on a particular name, the more it will cost you. So, knowing the language is important. Here’s a few terms to be aware of…

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Incognito Browsing: It’s Not Just for Privacy

If you regularly use any late-version web browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer), you may have noticed a feature called “incognito” or “private window” or “private browsing” in which you can open a new web browsing window and not have your search be cookied or tracked in any way. While this feature is intended for those who don’t want their search history recorded, (such as when you’re using a shared or public computer), it also can provide a “clean” browsing window to log into multiple services at the same time.