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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Tips on domain names

Tips on domain names
by Nurashikin Ismail


Domain names would be one of the first things you should do when you have an internet marketing business. A domain name is like a brand name, address or an identity to your website. It has to be unique, concise and memorable.
Good domain name is preferably memorable. One that is memorable would be those that you can remember even if you saw it once, many years ago. It is also understood that if your domain name is memorable, it would be more likely that users would type in the correct URL in their browser.
It also has to be unique, because, you would not want your users to confuse your domain name with that of another, especially if it were your competitors. So, be clear about how it would look and sound like. One point to note is that, there are many other domain names that end with the extensions, such as .net, .biz, .tk and so on, but the .com domain name is one that is prevalent in the internet. If, for any reason, that your domain name is one that ends with other extensions like .biz, make sure that you make it memorable by capitalizing the extension. For example, if you have an address like www.domainnames.net would want to make it more obvious by displaying your address as www.domainnames.NET. This way, users would be more likely to remember that it ended with .net instead of .com. Being memorable helps to bring more visitors.
When your business is progressing more aggressively, you may want to consider buying a domain name that is wrong as well. For example, your URL could be www.domainnames.com, however, some users may remember it as www.domainname.com, without the's' at the end. You can then direct the users who typed the wrong URL to your website.
Your domain name should reflect what type of website that you have. No point having a website about cars but your domain name says something like www.goodseats.com. The further away a domain name is from whom you are or what you do, the more likely it is you won't have great success in marketing.
You can register for a domain name at www.GoDaddy.com. They have a good range of domain name extensions and you can use their smart search if you have difficulties in deciding what domain name is the most unique, concise and memorable.
About the Author
Nurashikin is an Internet Business Entrepreneur who is still a student and wants to help other students and mothers to make an income from home. She has successfully generated an income for herself in her first month of business. Find out how she did it at http://www.upsizemysuccess.com

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