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Domain Names
Which ever provider do you chose (paid or free), you'll get a
tedious URL like server/members/paid/ yourname or something like
that. It' obvious that you'll have to find a shorter domain name.
There is a couple of ways that you can do this. First of all, there
are free URL redirection services like www.cjb.net
(yourname.cjb.net) , www.kickme.to (yourname.kickme.to and few other
choices), www.freeURL.com
(many possibilities like: yourname.is.cool or yourname.co.inc) and
many more. As you see they are not bad at all, best of all they
are FREE. They will work great for your secondary websites or for
the first few months of your business (or until you see what will
actually come of it), but for your prime website, the one you expect
will make the most profits, you HAVE to get a .com .net .cc or .info,
they are standard in internet business and you just have to go with
that standard (there are few other i.e. .tv or .co.uk they'll work
fine too). The best one is .com of course, but all the good ones
(meaning = short) are already taken.
Here are some criteria concerning domains that I think you
should stick to:.
1) A good domain name should be short, the shorter the better.
Short is better chiefly for two reasons: it is easy to spell without
error and it is memorable.
2) But not all short URLs are memorable. Imagine a company
with DKWV as initials, dkwv.com is short, but it is only memorable
to a handful of company insiders. Now if you're IBM, then using
initials for your domain name makes sense; that's how your customers
know you. But most of the time, using initials for your domain name
is a most unmemorable and customer-unfriendly approach to business.
3) The very best domain name should be one you can guess.
Just a few days ago I needed some resources on Perl, I typed cgiresources.com
and I was there! If your business name is too clumsy, look for something
that relates to your business.
4) Our fourth criterion may seem obvious -- hard to misspell
-- but you'd be surprised how many domain names are tough to spell
if you've only heard it orally. Many people are poor spellers. Still
others are poor typists. Combine them together and you're better
off with a short, memorable, logical, easy-to-spell domain name.
Buy Alternate Domain Names!
If you're a very small business, then $70 to secure a domain name
for two years may seem like a major investment. But as you grow,
you'll wish you had purchased the common misspellings of your company
name, or at least the .net and .org versions. If you're successful,
your competitors may make a nice living off the traffic from poor
spellers who intended to get to your site but weren't apt with the
alphabet. You should only advertise one, but you use the others
to bring traffic, and point all the domain names to the one site.
The investment in multiple domain names is small compared to the
potential marketing value to your company.
This is a list of a couple of companies where you can register
your domain for the minimum amount of
cash : DomainMLS , CC , DomainDirect, PlanetDomain
Written by Larry, NY
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