Domain name

A Few Tips while Choosing Your Domain Name

1. Your domain name should be easy to spell and remember

2. Try to have the .com extension as a priority, although this is now fast changing and not a requirement anymore - as people are getting familiar with the alternate domain extensions. (TLDs)

3. You should plan to have words that spell or identify your business type. This will help in directory ranking, and in rare cases Search Engine Optimization, and direct “type-in” traffic.

4. Even if you already have a domain name that spells out your company name, and does not describe what your business is as an English word(s) – you should go ahead and book a new domain name that uses a combination of English words (or your language words) as a part of the name. Try and snap up a few combinations and once the domain is booked, simply point traffic coming in to your main company website. These extra domains will help you rank higher up in Search Engines and pull in additional traffic.

5. Most single dictionary words are taken, try and combine 2 or 3 short words to make up your name.

6. If you are selling only in a particular geographical area – try and get that countries extension.

7. Feel free to use other country extensions if you get a catchy and easy to remember word. Eg. Try and snap up yourname.in , yourname.ws , yourname.tk etc.

8. Visit domain brokerage sites like www.buydomains.com and see if you can find any interesting domains, that fit your product or service, being resold (at higher prices generally) from the current owner. Sometimes, you can get a rare deal – that will help your business in many way – including the fact that this new domain may already have certain amount of residual traffic coming in on a daily basis. Email the owner(s) and ask them as many questions as you feel – before you snap up the domain – specially if it is costing you a bomb. Buydomain acts as the middleman and Escrow services are provided – so the transaction is clean, and there is no need to worry about anyone cheating you by not transferring the domain name to you even though you sent the money. Escrow services hold on to your money until they get a green signal from you that the domain name transfer has indeed been done. Only then do they release the payment to the domain seller.