subject: Registering|getting} Your Website Name And How To Avoid The Domain Renewals Letters [print this page] We register domain names because they want to claim a certain name - whether for personal or business considerations. What this means you can register domain names for your product names, business names, and brand names for all your local and worldwide markets. There are many thousands of fresh domain names registered every single day. The best domain names tend to combine a bit of search engine optimisation, marketability, brand awareness creation, attract links and easy to link to, authority, and uniqueness into one. Search engine listings may not favour domain names with keywords in them but from what I've seen that people viewing them do. To suit the content of your website, search engine optimisation, customer support, reliable functionality all have their part, and domain names can certainly be a starting critical factor for all these elements.
It makes real sense to register variations of your domain names, including different product names and spellings. There are lots of advantages in for this but most importantly to ensure that these unregistered domain names don't end up in the ownership of competitors. Don't forget registering multiple domain names can enhance your search engine rankings and is looked upon as part of an well developed search engine optimisation plan.
When someone wants to register a domain name, a user has to visit a registrar, which is a firm approved to register domain names. You may have spotted that domain> can have a number of different endings. The .com extension is the gold standard of domain names. Some government or educational extensions, for eample .gov or .ac.uk have certain rules on who can own them. Some nations also don't like it when you use their domain ending if you don't live there. But interestingly, registration of .asia domain names is not restricted and does not need any proof of Asian residency or orientation. Due to the exponentially increasing expansion of the Internet, when new extensions are launched prime domain names are registered at a very fast pace.
Domain Name Renewals
You usually pay a yearly amount for a domain name and you can have lots of domain names. When you have many domain names, you may want to sell them. Unsuprisingly, some domain names that have fetched a great deal of money, including I heard vodka.com which was sold at $3 million in 2006. One word of caution is when it it is time to renewal of your domain name. There are many unscrupulous companies out there who will send you what appears to be a renewal notice for your domain, but the truth is they are not the domain company that you originally registered the domain with and in fact want to deceive you into changing registrar and usually paying a much increased domain name renewal price than you will do with your exisiting {registrar| company. To avoid getting conned, take a note of when your domain names are due to be renewed and be suspicious of invoices coming too early.
Be careful to if your domain company is taken over by another company, or it is not the actual registrar company you are a customer of and the intermediary company you are dealing through suddenly decides to swap registrar for renewals or hands over renewal of your domain to the registrar, this actually happened to me a few years back and I was amazed to find out the domain that I'd got for a few pounds would be almost a hundred pounds at renewal, needless to say I quickly got in touch with the usual registrar I use and got the domain transferred to them and now pay just a couple of pounds a year once more.
