Craft Business Domain Names
Domain names can be a very important tool for creating and maintaining traffic to your website. A domain that is easy to remember will keep people coming back.
So, what is a domain name? It’s what you type in your into your browser to visit a particular website. Here are a few of the more well known ones you may be familiar with: Amazon.com, Google.com, Yahoo.com, Cashcrafters.com. Okay, so maybe that last one isn’t so well known.
Ideally, your domain name should reflect the theme of your website. It should be short, simple and easy to spell. Lets imagine you’re creating a website about birdhouses. Some domain names you might try are:
Birdhouses.com
Birdhomes.com
BirdhouseDesigns.net
HouseofBirds.net
Some you might avoid are:
Byrdhowses.com
Birdhousedesignsforyoutobuildyourself.com
See the difference. The first examples are easy to spell and remember, contain keywords important to your site and are search engine friendly. The last domain name examples are either difficult to spell or to remember and not likely to yield good search engine results.
Once you have some ideas for a domain name, you’ll need to find a registrar to purchase your domain from. You might expect to pay as little as nothing to up to $10. Anything more than that is probably unreasonable.
Some popular choices are Yahoo and Google, although most web hosts also sell domain names. Certainly you should look into finding a good web host, before purchasing a domain name, since many will have special deals for their clients. Some offer free web hosting with the purchase of a domain name.
Basically domain names and web hosts go hand in hand. Your domain registrar and your web host don’t have to be the same but it can make things easier. If they are not the same, it is easy enough to point your domain name to your web host account. Just follow the directions provided by your registrar.
