Starting your own business creating a website and email help

[Moominator]

Could anyone help- muchly appreciated

Where to start? Of course I'd like a professional url and a non-yahoo (professional) email address but where do you start? Any recommendations?

I 'heard' that if you type into google etc to see if certain names are available they are auto-registered and the price bumped up?

[Moominator]

Thank you. How do you go about checking if a website name (and email address) is available or taken? I heard (alongtime ago admittedly) that if you enter in the name into a search(es) it auto-registers (bumps up the price) then sells it back to you?

[hora]

Interesting username 'feef

On these sort of services who owns the actual name/email/URL variation that you chose for your company name? I.e in the future can a provider up their charges and your stuck or you'd have to again reg with another and variate the email if the first decided to charge or increase? Part paranoid but thought I'd ask just incase as if I get established the email/URL name would be crucial

[hora]

Very true