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Choosing Your Domain Name

Categories: Domains, General, Hosting & Domains

A domain name is the address or location used to find your website (aka. your web address, url). Your domain name should primarily be chosen based on your company or business name, what best describes your website or what your website is about. As a general rule try to avoid: Read more

The Way Google Looks Upon New Web Sites and Domain Names

Categories: Hosting & Domains, Internet Trends, Web

Everyday on the internet people worldwide are always coming up with a great idea for a new web site and then of course many of them make the decision to action this great idea for a new web site. So what happens now is they start to come up with ideas for their new domain name however the obstacles many end up facing is that new domain name is usually already taken. Therefore when you do finally find a domain name that has not already been taken you are so enthusiastic that you snap it up without thinking that you have not build the web site as of yet. Read more

Using Hyphens in Domain Names

Categories: General, Hosting & Domains, Small Business

Any internet marketer will tell you that getting hold of a domain name is the first step to setting up an online business. In reality, it is no longer as easy to find good domain names that have not been taken yet. It is definitely a whole lot less stressful to find domain names with hyphens. But is that recommended at all?

Here’s a quick recap of the qualities of a good domain name. A domain name should be directly related to your business, simple to remember, preferably contain one or two keywords and not be disputed. An ideal domain name should be a maximum of seven characters, the shorter the better. Given the scarcity of short domain names you may have to eventually settle for a domain name that is longer than seven characters. Read more

5 Ways to Think Up a Great Domain Name That Could Still Available

Categories: Design, Domains, Hosting & Domains

I could be so rich if I earned a dollar each and every time someone whinged that all the significant domain names had already been claimed. Fortunately it is just not true. Even within such a highly competitive industry, surely you must be able to think up new and marketable business domain names by using specific naming tactics that so few people use. Some examples: Read more

Domain Names Explained Simply

Categories: Design, Domains, General, Hosting & Domains

Just as your house has a street address so your visitors can find your home, so too does your website. The domain name, usually in the form of mysite.com, is the address of your website which is the home of your site and its pages and content; people will type this address into their browser in order to visit your website. For example, the domain name – or web address – for Google is Google.com Read more

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