ATTN Web People: How do I register a web address that doesn't currently exist?

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I want to buy/somehow procure a www.****.com URL but since the **** bit is a word I've totally made up, I can't go through the usual route of typing it into my browser, finding out who owns it and buying it off them.

It doesn't exist as .com, .net, .co.uk, .org or anything else I try; in fact, it returns no results when just the **** is typed into google!

So - what do I do? Soon as possible, please!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

New answers from UK-based ILE-ers if you don't mind - don't wanna be regionalist, but I'm based in London ;-)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't register masterbone.com! Or masterbone.co.uk for that matter.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Have a word with my mate Jonnie, he works for a net registration firm.

netnames I think they're called

― chris (chris), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

if the name doesnt come up when you search for it, you can assume it is available and you can buy it...as a failsafe you would be prevented from purchasing it if it already existed and someone else owned it anyway.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

i recommend 123reg.co.uk for domain registration

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I second that recommendation.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.alldomains.com and check if your ***** is available

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

if the name doesnt come up when you search for it, you can assume it is available and you can buy it...

This is what I'd already assumed, but if it isn't already regiatered, who do I buy it from?!

Do I go to, say, 123reg.co.uk and just say, "Hello, I'd like to register www.****.com, can you sort it out for me?", and they'll just do it, just like that? Or is it more complex?

Sorry to sound like a webnoramus (ahhh, sweet neologism), but I'm new to all this.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yes charlie thats all you have to do, peasy.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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