How do you choose your domain name?

How do you select a domain name? What is registration and how does it work? The main questions people have about creating their website. Choosing a domain name that identifies your service, product or information is key.  This is a very important step and is something that should involve a lot of thought and consideration as it identifies what your website is all about and is a major key to the success of your website

Your domain name is important in interesting people to go to and visit your website and with time it will be the name that people identify with your product, service or idea. So, how does one pick out a god or appropriate domain name?  You may get frustrated in your search and find your domain is already registered.  And you may even start to wonder if all the good names taken for your website are taken.

 And you would be justified in your wondering and frustration.  There are over 110,000,000 domain names already registered.  It’s a fact and there will only be more and more registered as time goes on.

There are several rules for selecting good domain names (should the names be available)”

1.     Short is good – the shorter your domain name the better – people are more apt to remember short words.  If you can sum up your domain name with one word that’s great.  Try to keep it to three words or under and try to keep your name at less than 18 – 20 characters.

2.     Make sure your domain name is memorable  TipsForTennis.com though 14 characters long and three words is far more memorable than Bpcw3.com

3.    Try to stay with words that are easy to spell.  Do not use numbers or hyphens.

4.    If you are lucky enough to find the name you want get it with a .com extension.  The .com extension is the most popular and most likely to be typed in by a potential visitor. If not try to get the .net  or .org. 

5.    Make sure your domain name is descriptive or your product, service or data.

Good luck, don’t get frustrated there is a domain out there that you will be able to use.  And if it already registered you can always offer to buy it from the party who registered it!