Choosing a Good Domain Name
A name by any other would smell as sweet? Not in the internet world. A name is your identity online. Your domain name can literally make or break you, so choosing a good one is of paramount importance. There are several key factors you need to keep in mind when choosing your domain name. These days its becoming increasingly harder to match your domain name to your business name. Almost every English word in the dictionary has been taken in the dot com arena. Everyday a staggering number of domains, running in the several millions, are being registered. As a result it's getting harder to find a good dot com domain that has not been registered.
The Quick and Dirty on Choosing a Domain Name
Many people ask me to give them advice on which domain name to choose... Example: Which one do you think is better for a driving school in a city named Kelowna? (Assuming they're all available! ) a) www.professionaldrivingtraining.com b) www.kelownadrivingschool.com c) www.learn2drive4life.com d) www.superior-intelligence-driving-instruction.com e) www.UBCdrive.com If you answered "b" or "e" you got it right! So what's wrong with the others? Well they all violate the 3 golden rules of domain names in some way. When choosing a domain name remember the golden rules: 1. Be short. (A to D aren't great, but D especially fails) Nobody wants to type in a long, tedious domain name.
How To Avoid Purchasing Banned Domain Names
If you are in the business of buying and selling domains, catching domains on the drop, or collecting domains you think might be valuable in the future, it is important to make sure the domains you are purchasing are not damaged goods. Domains have been known to be banned by search engines like Google for breaking their TOS ( terms of service ). Domains have also been known to exist on global spam blacklists. Many domains get blacklisted for spamming search engines or spamming via mass emails. You certainly don't want to pay top $ for a domain only to find it never gets indexed by a search engine and you are left with fishing for traffic from backlinks and paid traffic for the rest of that domain's life.
Several Pitfalls Of Buying An Expired Domain Name
An expired domain name offers you several benefits and advantages. However, along with these potential benefits, you will also find a number of disadvantages and pitfalls after buying them. In many ways, buying an expired domain is almost similar to buying a lottery ticket. Thus, you should be ready to face any adverse consequences that might arise out after buying your domain name. Some of the notable disadvantages of using an expired or pre-owned domain names are: Probability of Spam: When you buy an expired domain with a proven history of getting lot of spam, then you are more likely to inherit and own the same spam folder.
How To Find Expired Domain Names
According to most sources there are over 90, 000 domain names deleted every day. That is a huge number of domains you'd have to traverse in order to find gems that you might be interested in registering. If you try and do this by trying to register domains one domain at a time, you will get disheartened and give up quite quickly. So, you need a plan to do daily searches of expired domain names. Firstly, you need to find bulk sources of expired domain names. I find the odditysoftware lists to be quite good for this purpose. Of course, there are others too. Usually, the websites that list bulk lists of expiring/expired domains allow you to filter the lists by date, alphabetically and some also provide a feature to filter lists by character length.
Domain Names Free Privacy - Protect Your Privacy When You Register a Domain Name
Are you worried about your privacy online when starting a website? You should be. When you register domain names - free privacy settings from your registrar can protect you from spam, prying eyes, or worse. What's the problem? You have to give your real contact information when you register a domain name. This includes your full name, mailing address, telephone number and email address. Your contact information is publicly listed as the contact for your domain name. Your name and personal information is published in the WHOIS database which can be searched by anybody using free web tools.
The Cheapest Domain Names - What Do You Get For 1.99?
There are several sites on the internet claiming to offer the cheapest domain names. If you look hard enough, you can find domain names for as low as $1.99 or $2.99 per year. So, what's the catch? You have to realize that not all domain names are created equally. And, not all domain registrars include the same services in the price of your domain name. A good .com domain name will cost around $10 per year and should include at the very least, free domain forwarding free personalized email addresses & alias forwarding free parking full DNS access free domain registration privacy When you buy a cheap domain name for $1.
How To Find Available Domain Names For Your New Website
Over the past few months I have received many emails from frustrated readers asking for ways to find available domain names for their new websites. They don't have the time to look for or wait for domains to expire. They also don't have the startup cash to fork out for a pricey domain. They just want a cool, fresh, new domain name to start working on their website. The tool I use to brainstorm available domain names is called Domain Name Analyzer. It is made by DomainPunch and is free to download. It is an amazing tool and does the job perfectly. Well, let's say I am looking to get an available domain for a "golf tips and equipment" website I want to make.
With Dot Com s Nearly All Taken, What s Next?
Countless times I've found myself struggling to find the perfect name for a new site idea that I've been putting. Variation after variation leads me to realize that it may just be impossible to get a short and straight forward name with a dot com ending because someone has already beaten me to it. Registration sites love to offer you all of the alternative names that they have available, but when it comes down to it, adding a number of more unnecessary characters to the url can be more harm then it's worth. But as the web is expanding, more domain options have come to light and are readily available for purchase.
Domain Names for Sale - What s the Catch?
We're starting a few more blogs and websites, so we're in the market for some decent domain names. This time, we thought we'd check out some of the lists of domain names for sale, instead of trying to coming up with new domain names. The problem with domain names that are on sale is that they're more expensive than buying a regular, new domain name. If you can come up with a good, new domain name that hasn't been registered yet, it should cost you around $10 per year. If you need to buy a domain name that someone else is re-selling, then the initial asking price can be considerably higher.