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| out and plop down your hard earned money to buy a | | | | away the most successful. Obscure domain names, |
| domain name or name your website. You've found a | | | | no matter how cheap- a $7.99 domain name or |
| host for your Ecommerce site and the price is right. | | | | otherwise, will not work, if the consumer can't |
| $7.99 is a good price considering that you could | | | | remember them. |
| actually spend thousands of dollars for websites. But | | | | If you have an established name, you will probably |
| you want to immediately attract business to your | | | | want to keep it. So some people simply buy the |
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| website name, your domain name. | | | | owns it. Many people are in the business of creating |
| Naming a website after the domain name is very | | | | website and domain names in the names of famous |
| important, since most people who think of a website | | | | people. They hold onto these websites until |
| think of it by name. If your name is also your URL, | | | | somebody wants to sell the product or use that |
| they will automatically know where to find you and | | | | domain name. Then they sell the names back to the |
| the products that you have to offer. For instance, | | | | people who want to use them, sometimes for |
| your business is named Clown Heaven, but | | | | hundreds or thousands of dollars. |
| somebody else owns the domain name Clown | | | | The cheapest or most cost effective way to go is |
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| sale. In fact, you've lost hundreds of potential sales. | | | | brand name domains, or hyphenated name domains, |
| In the world of the internet, it is very important to | | | | or really, really long domain names is a good rule of |
| have your domain name reflect your website or | | | | thumb. On the internet you want to keep it simple |
| business, if you want to make money. The | | | | and memorable. That is the way to attract traffic to |
| businessperson who makes himself or herself easy to | | | | your web or ecommerce site. |