Secrets of Choosing Great Domain Names
Name reflects its business and its temperament. People know your business by its name. People get attracted by your business name. Name Name Name, IT DO REALLY MATTERS
While going thorough the process of choosing your domain name BRAINSTROM for a while and make a list. Be CREATIVE,TRENDY and PERSONAL while brainstorming , be clam ( there is a reason why you calmness is required. I will mention it below keep reading).
Do you want to create a brand image for your service or product ? OR Do you want create a personal image on internet ?
Tips for choosing a domain name for branding your services or product.
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SHORT and RHYTHMIC
Short name are easy to remember. Short name should not be greater that 10 character.
Try to have some rhythm in your domain name . For example GOOGLE, YAHOO, EBAY, MSN. That is right, they are big giants on internet. Have to ever noticed these giants have short and rhythmic domains ?
Okay lets dissect some of the names like “GOOGLE”.
Okay now I want you to say GOOGLE out loud in real. I mean REAL so please do it. I promise it will really help you. Now repeat it continuously. Hey, have you noticed something when you pronouns google, it got a rhythm in it ‘ogle’.
Okay lets do that with MSN as well shall we ? Pronounce MSN, have you noticed something ? Yes that is right it got rhythm of ‘MN’. Right, one more but not least, the domain name I really like is ‘webwise’. Yes again you are right its got rhythm of ‘we wa’
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SHORT, RHYTHMIC and TRENDY
Okay you got the list of short and rhythmic words by now. Let move further LOL.
Pick the five trendiest words from brainstormed list. And if it hard for you to find out the latest trendy word, Don’t worry, there is a service called http://www.urbandictionary.com/ which is the collection of slang version of the of non slang words from your brainstorm list LOL. I think this kind of service is really helpful in providing trendy version words, ofcourse if you are using for decent word. You got the point Right
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Don’t confuse your USERS
It is vary basic but worth knowing it, if you are doing a business in USA and have the capability of providing business only in states then choosing a domain name having .co.uk or .au does not make sense Does it ? Choose country specific domain names very carefully because it limits your business to the specific country. That is the reason why .com and .net are more popular because they represent whole world.
Tips for choosing domain name for personal website
1) Touch personal senses
If you are trying to create a personal website or a blog to brand yourself . You need something that appeals to people on a personal level. The trick is mix emotions with domain name for example “TreeHugger”
2) Sense the words
Think of the incident the that effected you most in past and your still passionate about it. Rephrase it into a single word and use it as your domain. Personal is website for personal use the word that effect your sense and emotions the most.
Okay by now you must have list of word you really want to have as your domain name. Now hold you calm. Here begins the search for availability of domain name.
There are various Top Level Domains (TLD) with various meaning behind them. Let make describe them in very layman terms.
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.com this represents the commercial business. Its is like you are say “ .company ”
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.org this represents the organisation which provide free services lets say it “ .organisation ”
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.net this represents the internet lets say it “ .network ”
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.biz this represents the business lets say it “ .business ”
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Now comes the country specific domain name like “ .co.uk “ , .” au “ etc.
I recommend choosing “ .com ” because it is more commonly used in day-today terminology but this is not a hard and fast rule that you have to choose .com domain.
If you are providing best original content on your website or best service then user will visit your website again and again . They really do I PROMISE.
And if you are good in provide good content or service through your website you will have good ranking in search engines so here is the Search Engine Optimisation part is sorted.
I really don’t understand why people choose domain name for search engine not for there service or product they provide ?
At the end of the day its your services or product that really matter for million people on internet.
Hey by the time I was writing this post I found out the cool service (mentioned below) that can help you choosing your domain name. It is FREE and I am not getting paid by them.
Cool Services
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Sunny kapoor
Next step forward is How to choose a web hosting company. Hey !!! that might help
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Wow, there are some good tips here =)
Also, excuse me if you said this already, type the name out a few times before you pick it. Some names are really easy to mess up without even realizing it!
Take universityprincess.com, for instance. It’s really easy to type universtiyprincess.com instead, switching the S and the I around. Had I thought of this earlier, I might not have picked this name! I might have gone with something else.