How to Select Great Domain Names for Your Business?

 

Domain name is the address of your blog and this is the first step to your online success. Picking up right domain name according to your business is very important and here I’m sharing some useful tips which will let you grab best domain name for your next website. Remember selecting a domain name is always like naming a new-born baby and for lifetime baby will be known by that name.

When it comes to selecting domain names for a company, you need to keep your brand in mind. Your name should be same as your brand name but like a smart name. If your company name is something like, Royaler Info Ltd, you can opt for Royaler.com or RoyalerTech.com or Royalerinfo.com (Subject to availability).

Keywords and name:

Select atleast 10 keywords that is related to your niche and 5 random popular words. You can take help of bustaname service to find the name which you are looking for. Bustaname, randmize your given keywords, and give you a list of all the available domain names.

Domain names:

As a newbie, you might find it very confusing which domain name extension you should go for. From my exeperience, you should try to grab .com domain first and if not start with .org or .net. Any other domain extension is not so popular.

Easy to remember:

Lets go back  to school. How hard it was for you to remember a name which is hard to type? For example: whoossaazt. Can you remember this name? Now look at my domain name: SHOUTMELOUD- Shout – ME – Loud. Do you see the difference? Go for a name which is easy to remember and easy to type. Specially try to avoid names which is easy to pronounce but might create confusion in spelling when you try to type.

Copyright Infringement.

Before you pick a new domain, make sure you not violating any existing brand copyright policies. For example WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a domain name with WordPress in it. If you do, get ready for an official letter. Though they let you use name like wp instead of WordPress.

Avoid Hyphen:

If you are creating a niche blog and looking to grab a keyword rich domain. It’s better to stay away from domain name with Hyphen in it. Earlier it’s easy to rank with domain name which has hyphen in it, but lately it’s become tough and if you have notivced current ranking system, you would realize that it’s better idea to look for alternative domain name instead of going one with hyphen in it.

Though people suggest that you should keep your name according to your blog niche and they justifies it well but for blogger who are looking for domain names with tech and blog like:

techtip, techblog, bloggertips and so on then do remember there are almost thousand of blogs and website already on the Internet. So Instead of going for it go for such names, it’s better idea to go for something which can become a brand for you in future.

Moreover using a name like “tech” and “blogging” people will always expect you to write article related to it. And with a generic name, you have wide possibilities to increase your niche.

Places to buy Domain names:

You can buy domain names from any of these domain registrar. ShoutMyDomain is my personal venture.

• Godaddy: $11.98
  

• ShoutMyDomain: $9.99
• NameCheap: $9.98
  

Anyways feel free to leave your own opinion regarding selecting a good domain name. Any extra tips and ideas will be much appreciated.