Best Tips For Choosing Your Domain Name

Choosing your domain name (and equivalently your website name) can often be a difficult task. It can be quite difficult to come up with a good name, and this problem can get worse because some domain names are already registered. This can be annoying since you can come up with a great site name (let's say your great name), only to find out later that YourGreatName.com and / or YourGreatName.net are registered.

This means that you will then have to either select your name and select it again (and then double-check if the equivalent domain is free to register), or that you can use a less well-known domain extension (YourGreatName .org, YourGreatName). Information about your original idea etc.).

There is a third option - and this is to try and buy YourGreatName.com and / or YourGreatName.net from their owners. However more often than not it can be quite expensive (with sellers requesting $ xxx or even $ x, xxx + - ie hundreds or thousands) so that you can be sold the name. Therefore this article will not consider this third option; However, if you are thinking of doing this, always use a domain escrow service (ie Escrow.com, Moniker Escrow, etc.) for high-value domain transactions.

This article will focus on the following aspects of choosing a domain name for your website:

* Choosing your website name

* Selecting the extension of your domain name (.com, .net etc.)

* Where to register your domain

* Protecting Your Domain

Choose your name

Guessing your purpose / objectives, and an idea of ​​your website look / layout and content discussed in another article can also help you choose a name. You want your website name to correspond to the subject area of ​​your site, and you also want it to be as memorable as possible. While a relatively short domain (4–6 characters long) can help make your name memorable, remember that some of the most popular websites and brands (Facebook, Microsoft, etc.) are not necessarily short - more importantly They are admirable and they look good.

There are some good tools out there that can help you come up with a website name, such as NameBoy, Dot-O-Mater, MakeScript, Domain Exposure, and Bustname. Even resources such as a dictionary or thesaurus can help you choose your site name.

Once you decide a name, do a quick search in Google and see if you have any websites with similar names. Especially if the websites have the same place as yours, it is not good to have the website name as the name of the other website.

On a less common issue, one should also be careful if your chosen name conflicts with any existing trademarks or registered names. You can run a trademark check on a website like Business Link (UK site). Please note that, as far as I know, Business Link only sees UK-registered trademarks.

Summary

To re-emphasize the most important part of the first paragraph above: You want your website name to correspond to the subject area of ​​your site, and you also want it to be as memorable as possible. Also beware of websites / trademarks with names similar to your chosen name.

Choosing your domain's extension

As the old saying goes (in doming circles), ".com is King". This is the most popular TLD (top level domain - ie 'domain extension') around, and has been for many years. So if possible, try and register the .com version of your chosen website name.

Of course, since ".com is king" and it is the most popular TLD, there is a chance that a .com version of your chosen name has already been taken. In this case, you must either choose another website name entirely or register one of the other available TLDs. For the purposes of this section, we will assume that you choose the latter option.

When some other TLDs were first introduced, they were given a special meaning - ".net" was for "networking sites", ".org" was for organization sites, ".info" was information sites. And were for ".biz". "Were for business sites. However nowadays, especially with with.net and .org, such associated meanings are not as strong and therefore it is more acceptable to use one of the above for any type of website (actually my first popular website - which still operates today with 9,500+ members - use a.org TLD). ".net" is a very popular TLD specifically for any type of website.

Also remember that many different countries now have their own TLDs - known as ccTLDs (country code top level domains). For example, ".co.uk" (with ".org.uk" etc.) in the United Kingdom, China has ".cn", ".us" in the US, etc. So there are many options to choose from. - If your website is local (ie not specifically targeting an internationally diverse audience), it may be a good idea to choose your specific ccTLD.

.Com is the most popular in terms of popularity. Chinese ccTLD.cn has recently become the second most popular. This is the third most popular, and .org is the fourth most popular (recently going on Verisign's list of domain registrations). To be this minute

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