Tips on Registering a Good Domain Name

So you're ready to start a website and you have to choose a domain name. You may think this is a brainless task, but there's actually an art to picking the best domain name for your website! This is a guide to help you start the first step of building your successful website!

First off before you actually get ready to register, have you picked the best registrar for your needs? Some of the registrars out there don't allow you to edit your own nameservers or domain preferences. Make sure that you have full admin abilities over your domain names before using that registrar! My personal favorites are Name Cheap and Go Daddy. Make sure you compare prices when you register your domain name. For instance it used to cost $70.00 just to register a single domain name through Network Solutions because they held the monopoly. However now since there's more competition, the price has been driven down to usually between $5-$8 per name.

So after you've found your registrar, you need to do a bit of thinking before you actually register a domain name. As you can imagine, most of the good .com domains have been taken, but trust me, there are plenty good ones left! You just have to be creative! Let's say you have a site about tennis. Obviously tennis.com is most likely registered. So you have to think of something else tennis-themed but just as good.

Here are a few tips that you should follow when deciding on a domain:

Make sure your domain name is less than 3 words in length. This is so that people can remember to type in the whole phrase and also search engines can pick out the keywords in the phrase. Preferably it's best to have your domain name be 1-2 words, but no more than 3 maximum.