subject: Tips To Choose Effective Domain Name [print this page] Domain name actually becomes your websites unique identity over the internet. Through the name your clients associate your companys name to the website. Whether you want to promote your business, create awareness among your prospective customers, enhance your brand image or increase your sales, you can easily use the mode of internet for the same. Today internet has become the best friend of all the businesses, whether small, medium scale or large scale. The business owners can easily create their websites for promotion, advertising and marketing.
After the creation of website, a website owner needs to buy domain name for the website that will act as the unique identity of the website, for instance, google.com is a domain name. Domain infers the server of domain where the website is hosted. Domain name permits only numeric and alphabetic characters. Accented symbols and characters are not permitted. But there are some exceptions; like the non-alphanumeric character that are allowed include multiple dashes or a single dash, for instance, www.your--domain.com or www.your-domain.com.
Following are some of the vital points that will help you in choosing viable domain name for your website:
First and foremost, write down the name of your business. Always remember that short and crisp domain names are the most effective ones as they can be easily remembered by your clients. So, make a list of the domain names that will complement your business name and will be short and sweet.
Next, you can also write down the names of the services which you provide and make domain names from the services.
To get more probable names, you can also create catchphrases from promotional materials and brochures.
If you want to buy domain name for your personal use, then you can choose a domain name using your name, your surname, your childs name, your hobbies or even your pets name.
When you have cut down your choices to few, then you can visit the Whois website, i.e. www.whois.org. When you have entered the website, you can type in your favorite choices and check whether they are taken or not. If you discover that a website name which you have chosen is already taken, then you can try your other preferences.
When you have finally selected the domain name, you can contact a domain name registration company to buy and register the name and have your companys unique identity over the internet!
