This will give you some indication as to the quality of personnel and equipment that are being employed by the host. Their connections, servers and support team should be of the highest quality. This is especially important to those of you that may have never registered your own domain name before. InterNIC is the Network Information Center that has been set up to serve the Internet community. They make the rules, administer the registration process and maintain the official data base of registered Domain Names.
All applications are subject to InterNIC approval.
FTP Access File Transfer Protocol is used when you want to upload or download files or web pages to your web host's server. This is especially important for anyone planning on building a commercial web site. Make sure that your web host provides this service. With this option there will be no limit to the amount of times that you can upload to your server. Also, no time restrictions.