You can register a domain up to 10 years. This allows you to avoid rate increases.

International rules require that valid contact information—known as Whois—is available for every domain name. ID Protect cloaks your identity and provides proxy contact information in the Whois.

ID Protect also reduces spam. In your cloaked Whois information, we provide a proxy email address that changes several times a year. We forward email sent to the proxy address, but when the proxy address changes, spam sent to the old address bounces.

Domain name is the address of your website that internet users type in the browser URL bar to visit your website.

Domain names are available in many different extensions. In Canada, some of the most popular are .com, .net, .ca. There are many other options like .org, .net, .tv, .info, .io, and more.

Top Level Domain – TLD

Top level domain or TLD are generic domain extensions that are listed at the highest level in the domain name system. They are also referred to as gTLD or generic top level domains.

URL is short for Uniform Resource locator. It is a web address that takes you to a specific page or file on a website.

A domain name alone locates a particular website. If you entered a domain name alone  in your browser, it will convert it into a URL like https://chickenlip.com and take you to the homepage of the website associated with that domain name. Each page or file you see on the internet has a URL associated with it.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the internet protocol technology used to access information on the web.

Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPs) indicates that a website is using SSL, which is a secure protocol to transmit data on the internet.

DNS stands for “Domain Name System”. It’s a system that lets you connect to websites by matching domain names (chickenlip.com) with the unique IP address of the server where a website is stored.