As with everything else in the planet, plans like setting up your own website start with a basic concept. It could be dating services that you’re interested in. Sell clothes. Write for a living. Put up a food review site. There could be thousands of ideas dancing around your head right now. But choose something that you are most passionate about.
Choosing a domain name could either make or break that vision. It could render your brains dry for hours. Find a domain name that you think suits your intentions well. Use keywords that would best describe your product or service. Example, if you specialize in nutrition, you could use diet.com. People who search the internet go by the subjects not specific proper nouns. If you are concerned about your pagerank in major search engines, don’t use sweeneytodddiet.com. Otherwise, you defeat your purpose of getting your website at the top page.
But if you’re an established corporation and building a solid corporate image in your area is more important than getting site traffic, you can always register your company name as it is. Example is sanmiguelfoods.com.
There are websites that offer cheaper but reliable domain registration services. You are allowed to register names from 3 to 63 characters long. Although it is always best to keep it short so that it would be easy to remember.
These domain registration websites have search boxes where you can check the availability of your chosen domain name under several extensions. These extensions, such as .com, .net, .org, .biz, etc. have specific purposes. .com stands for commercial and it is the most widely known extension in the world while .org applies to non-profit organizations. If you don’t want your domain name be copied, register it using all extensions.
Some domain registration websites also offer web hosting packages at very friendly rates. You just have to choose which plan is most appropriate to host your web pages.
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