Best Ideas for Choosing a Domain Name

The preliminary step to start up a website is the choice of a domain name. Whether you are building a site to advertise your local business, an e-commerce site, photo or video or music download site, information site, or if you want to start up a website to display photos of your newborn online, the entire enterprise begins with the choice of your domain name.

The next logical question you might ask- “What is the best choice of domain name?”. There are various factors to take into consideration. The domain name chosen for a family and friends website won’t be as crucial as with other types of sites. Why? Most likely in that instance you’re not looking for tons of traffic, your site is probably only something you are going to produce for family and friends, to keep them up to date. In a case like this, it does not matter whatsoever if you find a domain name like “mybabiesphotos.com” or not, since most likely you will only be giving out the name of the site to a few friends and family and maybe your crazy Uncle Bill.

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The point is that in a case like this, there is no real concern with getting a lot of visitors to the website other than friends and family and coworkers, so there is no real harm in naming the website ANYTHING, because you will be giving out the website address to a select few people. BUT……

What if you are looking to attract customers? And to get as much traffic coming to your site as possible?

The simple answer is, it can bring huge dividends to have a domain name that drives traffic to your site or business. If your website is about car parts for example, do you really expect the average web surfer to remember how to get to your website if it is named “bobsthingsforsale.com” or some other unrelated name? So be sure and choose carefully when deciding on a domain name. Best case scenario is to get the name of your business as a dot com or dot net, etc. In lieu of that, at least try to get the category of business that you are in incorporated in your domain name. For example, a jewelry website should have a domain name like jewelry.com or jensjewelry.com, something that immediately associates the domain name with the theme of the site. It’s all about branding, and making a lasting impression on the target audience or customers.

The WhoIs database contains all domain names registered, and when you are searching it will show whether or not your desired name is already registered. For your convenience in searching, I have conveniently placed a domain name search engine on StartYourWebsiteToday.com for this very purpose. When searching for the domain name, the results given will instantly show whether or not the domain name is available, and if so, give you the option to immediately register it. If it’s not available, several alternative domain names will be proposed, to help you fine tune your search, or possibly giving you an acceptable alternative domain name to register instead.