LuxSci has lowered its price for the registration of new domain names from $20.00/year to $9.99/year, in keeping with the current registration market.

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In this article, we cover the basic concepts involved in Domain Name Services (DNS) and domain registration, so that you can understand how they are involved in email and web hosting services.    You may also be interested in reading our separate article where we interview Mark Jeftovic at easyDNS.

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Any time you register a domain name, you are required to provide valid contact information for the owner of the domain.  This information is published and made publically available in the “WHOIS” database.  Anyone can look there to see who owns the domain and to contact the domain owner if necessary.

Private Domain Registration, or WHOIS Masking, or contact privacy, is a service offered by some domain registrars where they will either (a) not publish the domain owner’s contact details, or will (b) publish “masked” details — i.e. details that point to anonymous names and addresses at the registrar.

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