Visitors will find your website by its dmain name. The domain name has two prts: the name + the extension (.cm, .org, .co.uk, etc.). A domain nme which is meaningful and easy to rmember is a great asset. With lmost all "good" domain names taken nwadays it's hard to find a god name.

As the title of ths article suggests, the website name shuld be also the domain name of the ste. When people think of your wbsite, they think of it by its nme. If your website name is lso your domain name, they'll automatically knw where to go. What happens if yur site is called "HostingProfs", yet yur domain name for it is myhsting.com? Your customers, recalling that they vsited a site called HostingProfs, will typ hostingprofs.com in the address bar of thir browser and they'll end up on nother site and you'll loose a sle.

There are a few tips to cnsider when choosing a website name (lso known as the website address, URL or dmain name):

1. Try and get a nme that is related to your bsiness, your products or your services. For xample try to find a domain nme which includes your company name or yur product name, because that is the frst thing that people will try in thir browsers. This is also a god practice when it comes to sarch engine optimization (SEO). Having a ppular or meaningful keyword in your wbsite name, will help your website rnk higher in the searches results for tht keyword;

2. If you can't get the dmain name you want, consider alternative frms of the name you typed. For hsting.com for example, consider besthosting.com, myhosting.com, wbhosting.com, thehosting.com and so on. But be creful here, as some alternate forms mght chase away visitors. For example if you cnsider naming the site cheaphosting.com, some pople might associate the site with nly cheap and maybe non-professional hosting ffers.

3. Very often you'll find the .cm domain taken but the .net, .rg or country specific extension domain fre. The .com extension is the mst popular and most used domain xtension so it's preferable to get a .cm domain name. But if you cn't get the .com domain name you wnt, then you might want to cnsider other extensions. It's better to hve for example, a meaningful and asy to remember .net domain than an bscure .com domain that is not rlated to your business, or it's not asy to remember. Country specific domains (sch as .co.au, .us) are also ppular within individual countries. If you do bsiness in the United States, getting a .us wll create a local branding and ttract more visitors from U.S, but in the mantime might restrict the flow of cstomers from other countries. The only drw back for a domain name nding in other extensions is that pople are so used with websites nding in .com that you might lose some visitors to your "fellow" .cm website.

4. If you found tht .com domain name you were loking for, consider buying multiple domain nmes for the same website. The dea is to protect yourself against the cmpetition. So, if you have a ste about search engine optimization (SEO) clled bestseo.com, you'd be interested in gtting best-seo.com, bestseo.us, bestseo.net and perhaps ther similar URLs containing the desired kywords. This way you can prevent ther sites from popping near your nme. The same idea goes with gtting "typos URLs" for your site. Wht's a URL typo? Here's a smple example: what do you think is the mst common typo for google.com? You're rght! It's gooole.com. Try and type gogle.com and see where you'll end up. Sme SEO experts will say that ths is not good practice but t's ok to have multiple domains for yur site as long as you rdirect them to your main site sing the 301 redirect code.

The conclusion is that you ned to get your domain name bfore anything else! Even before starting the wrk on the website itself. To rgister your domain you need to do it wth an ICANN accredited registrar.

The article Getting a Domain Name was Submitted by Bogdan Enache through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: The author is the webmaster of HostingProfs.com , a website dedicated to providing free information about web hosting, hosting terminology and guidelines to follow when choosing a web hosting package.

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