Is my website safe? Making WordPress secure

Is my website safe? Making WordPress secure

WordPress can rightly be called one of the most popular content management systems in the world, if not THE most popular one. The simplicity for users, paired with extreme flexibility (with the right themes and plugins, you can make your WordPress site pretty much anything you want), and accessibility — it all contributes to its…

Full site editing is coming to WordPress with 5.8

Full site editing is coming to WordPress with 5.8

As great as editing WordPress has been for the web developers among us, beginners and casual website owners have remained rather unimpressed with WordPress’s abilities. This is all about to change with the release of WordPress 5.8 scheduled for July 20. I mean, sure, WordPress has always been powerful enough to handle any task you…

Whois—or Whoisn’t? The state of Whois for domains

Whois—or Whoisn’t? The state of Whois for domains

Determining who owns a domain name used to be simple. The creators of the domain name system built a service called Whois that served as a phone directory for websites. Whois displayed the phone number, address, email address and fax number (remember, this was a while ago!) of the contacts for the domain owner. The…

New top-level domains can sell for lots of money

New top-level domains can sell for lots of money

What do flip.xyz, bit.cloud, m.chat and quest.xyz have in common domains? They’re all domains with “new top-level domain” extensions that have sold for at least $25,000 this year. It’s proof that even non-.COM names can sell for good money and be profitable domain name investments. But investing in these alternate extensions requires different considerations than…

What to do after buying a domain name: 6 key actions

What to do after buying a domain name: 6 key actions

Moving is so relaxing — said no one ever. On top of having to physically move all your stuff, there’s a ton of admin tasks to handle like changing your address, forwarding your mail, setting up your home phone, letting your friends and family know your new domains address, changing your address on all of…

4 ways Webhostifier customers use .INK domains

4 ways Webhostifier customers use .INK domains

.INK is a versatile top-level domain name with lots of potential uses including publishing, printing, tattoos, and link shortening with the webhostifier. People have registered over 40,000 domain names ending in .INK, and Webhostifier is one of the top registrars people use to register the domain extension. Here are some ways Webhostifier customers use .INK…

Let’s talk about Terraform

Let’s talk about Terraform

As your chosen registrar, we want to help make your life as pain-free as possible when it comes to domain management. For this reason, we offer our customers the ability to manage domains with Webhostifier through Terraform. This incredible tool allows developers to manage, monitor, and provision resources without the need for manual configuration.  Interestingly,…