Along with selecting your web host, the domain name can be one of the most important parts of building your website. For instance, a website like bobs-stuff.com won’t work for a website selling water fountains.
If you have a company name, that should be your domain name, without a question. Register your company dot com name, and call it a day. It’s also important to register the other TLDs, such as .net, .org, and .info. Simply point those to your .com website. If you don’t, someone could register those and pose as your website, causing problems ranging from security issues to massive profit loss. It’s just bad news.
If you’re planning on making a web-only business (particularly a blog or a forum), it helps to make your domain name relevant to your content. If you have a discussion forum on wine, you could register wineforum.com, or something of the like.
You should also keep your domain name short. Short domain names are much easier to remember than longer ones.
Try to register a .com or a .net address. The other extensions smack of lower quality.
If the domain you’ve selected has already been chosen, you can either try to buy it from the current owner, or select a similar name. Try hyphenating the domain name (Changing bobsstuff.com to bobs-stuff.com), changing pluralization, or selecting keywords that are synonyms to what you’re currently using.
When you select a service to register your domain name, it shouldn’t be expensive. At the absolute most, you should pay $10 per year, but you can find them registered for a lot cheaper.
Selecting a domain name, just like any other kind of name, can be a bit stressful, but take your time and you’ll find one that fits. A lot of my websites start out with a relatively generic name, but that name makes more and more sense as people start talking about it.
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Author: Phil L Smith
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