How To Choose a Domain Name

  • Name your site as your domain name – For Webpreneurs it is good to name their site after registering the domain names. It is always good to name your website as your domain name. for example, people think about “alvistor” then they first go for “alvistor.com”, if i have website url as “AlvistorForYou.com” then i should name my website as “Alvistor For You” rather than “Alvistor”.
  • If you are trying to name a website for an active organisation for which the name is already registered then try to stick with the first point and name it as like alvistorcorp.com, alvistorco.com

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  • Generic names and brand names – There is different between generic name and brand name.it is best to name a drinks company website as their brand name like pepsi.com,coke.com and worst to choose like drinks.com,cooldrinks.com.
  • Short and long names – both has their own pros and cons. short names are easy to remeber. when choosing the short domain names try to sitck with the other rules.some times short name will be so comfusing. nvu.com is some time confused to nuv.com. but in.com is never confused to the viewers. some of the website names are long but easy to remeber and easily found from search engine.
  • Hyphenated names – hyphenated names were better than the long names. “alvistor-for-you.com” is better than “alvistorforyou.com”. one more benefit is search engines omit ‘-’ (hyphens) and took the words as keyword.
  • Plurals included names -  you can also try for the plural included names like “thealvistor.com”,”mysalespage.com”. temember the first point, the your website name should be ” The Alvistor”

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  • TLDs – try to stick with Top Level Domains, like .com, .net, .org, .info, if they are occupied, then go for others like .tv, .name. If your website is Geographical oriented, that is hotel in india, then go for “yourhotel.in” a pizza hut in uk then go for “pizzahut.co.uk”.
  • Abbreviations – avoid abbrreviations. it will not help you in any way. eg: naming “Acme University of Science And Research ” as “AUOSAR.com”
  • Keyword, Niche – it is a smart way to include the keyword into the name. for example you are trying to name a website to affilite health products then you can name like health-products.com,cheap-health-products.com
  • Relevant and non relevant – try to maintain the relavancy of the domain name to the content of the website.but also i would like to remind that the worlds best website doesn’t have relevant name, ex : google, yahoo, bing, so try for a attractive word that is easy to remember, or you should make the name famous and attractive.

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  • check for already registered – search for the name that expired or already registered. find out the registrar from whois database and bargain for the domain if it is worth.
  • Don’t forget to check the precautions before registering a domain name, be aware about Domain name fornt running and unscrupulous domain registrars, and the worst doamin names from related post section

Written By Sakthi Tharan (tharansakthi)
About Author: Developer and Web Designer, blogs about latest technology and tech news.
June 12, 2009Permalink 1 Comment
One Response to How To Choose a Domain Name
  1. MarkSpizer says:

    great post as usual!

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