How To Select The Best Name For Your Website
What Is A Domain Name?
To reach a website you have to type an address into your internet browser – the domain name (e.g. www.websitesare.us). This domain name has to be unique so computers know where to find your website. ICANN, the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers, coordinates these unique identifiers across the world, and your domain name needs to be registered with ICANN through an accredited domain-name registrar. Domain Name Registrars usually charge about $10 per year for the registration of a regular .com domain.
Once you start looking for your domain name, you will notice that many names as we describe them above are already taken. So you might have to settle with a less perfect option, but we still urge you to keep the above rules in mind when selecting your website’s name!
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How To Select The Best Name For Your Website
- Select a name that is as short as possible and easy to memorize, so in case you want to do ‘off-line’ advertising like car stickers, your customers will remember it
- Preferably select a name that ends in .com or .us (or your country’s extension if you are outside the US). If you select a .net name, your customers might mistakenly go to the .com domain instead (if it exists). Avoid .biz or .info – these just don’t look professional. If you are a Non Profit Organization you may want to select .org
- Prefer names without dashes (mydomain.com is better than my-domain.com)
- If possible, include your most important ‘keyword’, or think of registering 2 domains: One with your company name, and one with your keyword that will point to your main website. E.g. in addition to ‘OnPointRealEstateGroup.com’, you might think of getting ‘SanDiegoFastHomeSelling.com’. Google shows websites with the keyword in the domain name first!
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We will assist you in finding you the (almost) perfect domain name by using software tools that allow us to check available domain names fast and easily.
