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ICANN is reporting, that a new operator for the net-domains
registry will be designated in March 2005. The whole process for
the net-domains is similiar to the transition of the org-domains
to a new registry. According to ICANN the current Registry
Agreement between ICANN and VeriSign, Inc. concerning the
net-domains was signed in May 2001, and will expire on 30 June
2005. The agreement concerning the net-domain provides that
ICANN, no later than 30 June 2004, will adopt an open and
transparent procedure for designating a new Registry Operator of
net-domains.

The final procedure of reassignment has been developed through a
process containing a public comment period. After review of many
comments about the net-domain in the public comment period, the
draft procedure was developed by the ICANN Board of Directors at
the 29 June 2004 Board Meeting. ICANN says, that a new registry
for the net-domains will be appointed in March 2005 after a
broad public discussion of the proposals. In former times only
provider could register net-domains. Nowadays anybody can
register net-domains. Net-domains are very often registered by
webmasters who see in their website(s) a kind of network. ICANN
accredited registrar Secura is going on to register net-domains,
independend of the fact who will be the new net-domains
registry. Secura will get a new contract with the new registry,
similiar to the contract with the new org-domains registry,
Public Interest Registry. Hans-Peter Oswald
<http://www.domainregistry.de/net-domain.html>

Dear Mr. D,

My question is about getting a website
listed on the major search engines.

For the past several months I have
been submitting my website to several
of the major search engines. But, I don’t
think I am listed by any of them. At least
I can find my site when I do a search
for my keywords.

Can you take a look at my site and tell
me if there is something wrong with my
site that is preventing me from getting
listed? This is really frustrating.

Signed,

Frustrated

____________________________

Dear Frustrated,

Getting listed on any of the major search
engines can be a trying adverture. But,
so much of Web traffic comes from these
engines, it is worth the effort.

The reason your site is being ignored by
the major engines is you don’t have any
meta tags in your code. When you submit
your site to a search engine they send a spider
to crawl your site for all the other details. And
the very first thing this spider looks for is …
Meta Tags!

If you don’t have Meta Tags in place, things
can get ugly. The spider will move to the text
on your page, with the end result being a really
messy site description and no keywords …
that’s bad!

Meta tags should be placed between the head
tags of your sites code. They should contain
your site’s title, description and keywords. If
you are not knowledgeable about building meta
tags, I suggest you consult someone who does.
Even it cost you a few bucks, the amount of
traffic increase you will see will more than make
up for the cost.

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