| What Domain Name To Choose - A dot com? | | | | all over the World. By limiting your business to your |
| The first step I did when I was choosing a domain | | | | country, you may also be limiting the opportunities |
| name was to ask myself, what does my business | | | | that are available. I do recommend considering |
| do? Since this is a website for people to learn about | | | | registering a domain name for your country as well. |
| how to start, run and succeed in an internet business, | | | | For example if you are in Australia, you would au and |
| I made sure the domain name had "InternetBusiness". | | | | have that redirected to website as well. That way |
| This it is a keyword that is commonly used for this | | | | you will have presence globally and not just in your |
| particular topic and when other sites link to my site, I | | | | own country. |
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| keywords and SEO work. | | | | that can help you register your new domain name. |
| The second factor to consider is the length of the | | | | Personally I would choose the cheapest one available |
| domain name. This may not sound so important but | | | | and consider the one that would offer 2-3 years of |
| when you are distributing print material such as, | | | | domain name registration so you won't have to |
| pamphlets, business cards, brochures or catalogues, | | | | worry about this for sometime once it has been |
| you will want to consider making it easy to | | | | setup. Furthermore if you have not purchasing |
| remember and short enough to make sense. Try to | | | | hosting for your site as yet, these companies usually |
| use no more than 5 words for a domain name and | | | | give you a domain name for free when you sign up |
| no hyphens(-) as it doesn't come up in search engines | | | | for the first time. A company that offers this is |
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| The last factor, which I consider to be the most | | | | Hostmonster |
| important is choosing the extension of a domain | | | | If you already have a hosting company and you |
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| that ends with.com, regardless of which country you | | | | GoDaddy, iPower and Crazy Domains. I have used |
| are in. The World Wide Web is now a global network | | | | these companies to register additional domain names |
| of websites and most businesses are doing business | | | | and they are very easy to setup and good value. |