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Domain Names - Help - Why you need a Domain Name
Why Do You Need A Domain Name?
Increases your name recognition. Makes it easy for your customers to remember
your address.
Indicates you are a serious Internet player. Helps brand your image. Adds a
level of trust and integrity to your site. Many search engines refuse to list
pages from free sites. Some search engines will only index the first page of
a domain site. Domain names containing 'keywords' aid in higher search
engine ranking. Allows you to use your domain address (www.yourname.com) and
virtual email addresses (yourname@yourname.com) on your business cards and letterhead.
Once a domain name has been registered, it is no longer available. The most
popular and easily-remembered domain names are being reserved daily,
at the rate of one domain name every 5 seconds! At that rate, in the near future,
only obscure domain names will be available to the general public. Avoids
somebody else from registering the name you want. Lets you change your current
email provider and still keep the same email address. Protects your Internet
advertising investment from failure of your Internet Service Provider.
How To Select A Domain Name:
Make it as short as possible - Make it memorable - Make it easy to spell - Make
it pronounceable
Make it a name you can brand - Make it non-confusable with another domain name
Make it not conflict with an existing trademark - Make it easy to say
Make it trust-worthy, not off-beat (i.e. a .com instead of a .to or .ws)
Make it directly related to either your business name or
Make it directly related to keywords from your industry or
Make it descriptive of your site's content
Consider multiple domain names: obtain similar names to avoid competitors
confusing your customers obtain misspellings of your domain name to keep competitors
from taking advantage of misspellings obtain names for future offerings (services
or products)
link to your main site from additional domains to aid in your search engine
ranking (major search engines use link popularity in their ranking algorithms)
Search for your Domain Name:
Enter one Domain Name each line without "www" example
"yourname.com"
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