What tips can you offer to speed up the process?
If you have multiple domain names to be registered, you may use the Back button from your Internet browser to save time typing; If you encounter errors, please take a break and try your registration, transfer, or renewal again. Especially during our promotion, there will be many registrants like you taking advantage of this opportunity, which may temporarily exceed our server capacity. If the errors persist, please report them by sending us an e-mail: DomainNames@ec-t.com.

Do I lose any remaining time by renewing today?
No, you will not. You don't have to wait until your domain name expires to do the renewal because you will not lose those additional days left. For example, if your expiration date is October 30, 2002 and you renew for 2 years today, your new expiration date will still be October 30, 2004. Actually it is better to renew your domain name at least 2 weeks prior to its expiration.

What is InterNIC?
InterNIC stands for Internet Network Information Center contracted to provide services relating to the registration of domains in the .COM, .NET, .ORG, and .EDU top-level domains and the maintenance of 'root zone name servers' which form the foundation of the domain name system. The root zone servers are used when converting user-friendly domain names used everyday to the computer-friendly IP addresses (unique strings of numbers) that servers make available on the Web. Root zone servers identify which name server computers consult when translating a domain to an IP address.

Can I register directly using someone else's DNS servers?
No, that is theft or fraud. When you register a domain, claiming to have access to someone else's DNS without prior permission, the registration is processed the owner of the name servers is sent an e-mail message stating that the domain was registered with those name servers as the 'authoritative name servers' for the domain. That is fraud. Whenever anyone tries to reference your domain in any way whatsoever -- e-mail, web site, ftp, and so on -- their computers query the name servers for the domain to get a numerical IP Address. That is theft: their computer is being forced to do something on your behalf, so you're stealing computer resources.

The domain name I want is taken. What can I do?
Usually not much. If you have a valid United States Trademark you can legally compel whomever has your domain name to relinquish control of that domain name to you. Sometimes people acquire domain names not trademarked, but are desirable and offer them for sale to the first person willing to pay the price that they have set. Or someone acquired a domain name that they're using, but its use is limited or strictly internal (invisible to the outside world) and they'd be willing to sell the DomainName for the right price.

What is the difference between ".COM", ".NET", and ".ORG"?
Previously .COM was used for commercial entities, .NET was used for network infrastructure, servers, routers, and the other hardware and .ORG was used for non-profit organizations. In the present, there is no monitoring of the use of the .ORG, .NET or .COM so they are free to be used by any person or organization.

If more than one person requests a domain name who gets it?
Domains are registered in the order which the registration requests are received. The first registration request is the one that will get the domain.

Why isn't there a website for a domain that's "in use"?
People acquire domain names for different purposes. If a domain name was acquired strictly for e-mail use, there won't be a website. Or it could be that a company acquired the domain name for use in their private intranet. The general public wouldn't have access to the website, so it could appear that there is none.