There are two things in one go: Buy Domain Name and Host Website
There are two important aspects that are generally misunderstood by many Melanesians when talking about Web Hosting and Domain names.
To have an email address with your own name and to have a website content are two different things that included in one package. In order to have an email address, you need to have a domain name. However, owning a domain name is not complete, you need to host the domain name. only after hosting the domain name that you can have email name and web content on your domain name.
For example, I use my email info@wantok.biz, that I means I already bought a domain name called "wantok.biz" and then I have already hosted that domain name. In other words, if I only buy the domain name, and do not host the domain, I cannot use the domain name as my email address.
We are not talking like google.com (gmail) and microsot (hotmail or outlook) emails, where they only give free email addresses in their domains. We are talking about both domain name and web hosting. Particularly for google.com we have email and then we can create blogger.com blogs.
The Price and Payment for Domain Name and Webhosting is separate
When you buy a domain name, say, such as www.melanesia.us or www.wantok.us, then you have to pay domain name at domain registrar.
A second thing is that domain name is always charged annually. There is no monthly payment for domain name.
Buying this domain name does not mean you can use email accounts using these domain names. The next thing you need to do is to host the domain name with a web hosting company. The web hosting company charges customers on various terms. There are options for monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually, biannually, and so on.
Domain Names and Melanesia-Specific Domain Name
www.8plus1.org as product of PAPUAmart.com LTD, a local company based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, we are here to encourage all WANTOKS in Melanesia to buy domain names related to Melanesian peoples, names and identities, primarily using local languages, but can also use foreign language.
Melanesian-Specific Domain Name means the domain name is the name of a person, a family, a clan, a place, an object, a plant, an animal, a land, a mountain, a water, a river, a valley, a spirit, in Melanesia and in Melanesian languages.
In other words, we do not advocate names like Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, West Papua, New Caledonia, Oceania, and others, i.e., the names are Melanesian names, but they are not the names in our local languages, and we do not have these names in any of our languages in Melanesia.
Melanesia Specific Web Hosting
We provide special web hosting services for Melanesian peoples: individuals, families, clans, moieties and tribes.
