Research notebook

A small, careful notebook for domain and website checks

Practical notes on reading domain history, choosing hosting that holds up, fitting favicons that load on the first try, and planning subdomains before they spread. The tone is calm, the checks are concrete, and the goal is to reduce risk before you spend hours building on a name.

Bright research desk with paper cards labelled domain history, hosting and favicon.

Find a check, a guide, or an example

Search runs entirely in your browser against a small index of pages. There is no tracker, no third-party search box, no auto-suggest API. If a topic is not yet covered, the search index will be the first place a new note appears.

The five things this notebook keeps revisiting

Pillar 1

Domain history

Before any small site goes live on a name, it pays to read what the name has been used for. The domain history pillar covers what to look for, what to ignore, and how to weigh signals like topic drift, language changes, redirect chains and index status.

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Pillar 2

Domain profile

A domain profile is the snapshot view of a name: TLD, age, language, ownership signals, subdomain footprint and crawlability. The profile is where you make a quick keep-or-skip call.

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Pillar 3

Hosting choice

Hosting decisions tend to look small until something breaks during a launch week. The hosting notes focus on the criteria that quietly decide whether a small site stays fast, stays online, and stays affordable when it scales.

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Pillar 4

Favicons

The favicon looks like a trivial detail and routinely consumes hours when it does not load. The favicon notes go through file formats, browser discovery rules, the tags that actually matter, and the testing pass that catches the silly mistakes.

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Pillar 5

Subdomains

Subdomains are useful for clear separation and risky for content cohesion. The subdomain notes weigh the trade-offs, look at when separation is genuinely helpful, and explain why most small sites do better keeping content under the main host.

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Pages that get the most use

Guide

Kриterii vyboru hostynha dlya saytu

The Ukrainian-language hosting selection guide that has stayed useful long after the original was published. Covers speed, uptime, support, backups and pricing with practical examples from small-site work.

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Guide

Yak zrobyty ikonku dlya saytu

The Ukrainian favicon how-to. Goes through formats, sizes, the HTML tags that modern browsers really use, and the small testing routine that catches missing or stale favicons before launch.

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Notes

Free domains: what they mean

Free domain offers come in several shapes. Some are useful for testing. Some hide migration headaches. The free-domains notes draw the line between sensible short-term use and avoidable long-term mess.

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Reference

Checklists

The lightweight checklists used across the notebook: domain-history review, hosting requirements, favicon tag set, subdomain planning, and pre-launch hygiene.

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How to read a domain history page in practice

The notebook keeps a handful of example evaluations. They are not live data reports. They are illustrations of what to inspect when a name has prior use, using neutral observational framing rather than claims.

updateuk.uk, wahyuddinrosi.com, iffiarahman.com, digitaltechnologyguide.com, thebeautygaze.com, techindiatoday.com and the broader domain history index.