How to Choose a Domain Name

Buying a domain name is easy, but choosing a good domain name is not easy. Please keep in mind that domain name is very important to help visitors find you on the web.

Below are the tips for you to make a good decision before buying a domain name.

Choosing a Domain Name

Before buying a Domain name you should think about keyword. What specific keyword are you targeting for your website. The domain name is part of the SEO equation so its best to choose a domain name that is related to your website's contents.

Don’t try and get it too fancy or broad. Just remember that your domain name should be a keyword. Having a keyword in your domain name and the contents of your website are critical. In this way, Google knows that your website is relevant to that particular niche.

Tips to Choose a Domain Name

1. More shorter more better
   Choosing a domain name that is as short as possible as long it remains recognizable. It is easier to remember and it also minimizes the risk of typing it wrong.
2. Make it simple and easy to remember
   Domain name should be easy to remember. If you can, choose domain name with less than 3 words. Avoid using hyphens, abbreviations or anything that could put your visitors in doubt how to spell or call it.
3. Domain name should be a keyword
   Your domain name should be a keyword that connect to your website content or purpose. Example if your website talk about car model, your domain name should have a word "car" in it. Why? Because when visitors wish to find a new car model, they will think to your website. Especially, your domain name is also easy for all the search engines to find it.

Domain .com or .net ?

The difference between .com and .net is .com has been known before .net, so visitors always reflect to .com. Base on Google and many other search engines are not rank domain “.com” over “.net” by its extension, but it does with the SEO factors. However .com is popular than .net.

Domain .com Vs .com.us?

Domain .com and .com.us have different benefits, .com is easy to remember global on the Internet, while .com.us is useful for search engine. Example: if someone in USA searchs for Car model and there were two competing sites, one was located in USA www.car.com.us and other one www.car.com, both websites have SEO in the same level, then the website “.com.us” must be ranked first as Google knows where the person who is searching for a ‘car’ is located.

Explanation of Some Domain Names:

• .com domain is intended for commercial organizations and can be registered by anyone. It is also the most popular domain name in the world.
• .net domain is also a popular and can be registered by anyone. It is intended for entities connected with networks, networking.
• .org domain is for organizations around the world. It is designed for the noncommercial community, but can be registered by anyone.
• .info domain is open for everyone to register and is meant to be for informational websites.
• .biz domain is intended for businesses entities and can be registered by anyone.
• .jobs domain is designed jobs companies and for human resource managers.
• .name domain is reserved for individuals that want to establish their name as a brand. It can be freely registered here.
• .travel domain is reserved for travel related entities and cannot be registered by anyone.
• .mobi domain is a more recent domain for websites connected with mobile products and services and for mobile-compatible sites.
• .pro domain is restricted to professionals: doctors, attorneys. Applicant has to provide credentials in order to register.
• .museum domain is restricted only for museums.
• .coop domain is for cooperative associations. Not very common.
• .cat domain is reserved for the Catalan linguistic and cultural community.
• .aero domain is reserved for members of the air-transport industry and cannot be registered by anyone.

Special Domain Name:

• .gov domain cannot be registered by public. It is exclusive for the United States Government.
• .edu domain is reserved for US educational institutions.
• .mil domain cannot be registered by public. It is reserved for the needs of the United States Military.
• .int domain is used strictly by organizations endorsed by international treaties between governments.

Tip:

Don't forget COUPON code when you buy domain name or renewal your old domain name. Coupon code always change from time to time, so please do a research on google to find out the best coupon code that suit your purchase.

Example: 2010 coupon code gda731a from GoDaddy - Save 30% off for .COM .Net and .Org domain Registrations and Renewals.

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