Now that you have created a blueprint of your website i.e. chosen your website niche, made your list of highly profitable keywords, analyzed your competitors and planned your website structure. Now you are super ready to choose, analyze and register your dns domain name suitable to your niche and attractive at the same time.

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What is Domain Name?

Domain names are unique identifiers on the Net. You need to get a dns domain name if you're serious about making your business successful. Having your own domain instead of an extension of someone else's, gives your site better credibility, recognition, and visibility with the search engines and directories.

Technically speaking, dns domain names are aliases which refer Internet users to IP addresses, complicated series of numbers that represent the location on the server.

If you haven't purchased a domain yet it's best to buy one that includes one of your most profitable keywords for higher relevancy. The engines will rank your site higher for your keyword if it's included in your dns domain name.

Besides, when readers hit your site, they should be immediately able to understand what your site is all about. And the best way to do that is including your concept keyword in your dns domain name. It's a better description of your Web site.

The length can be up to 63 characters, although the shorter the better. You may use dashes if it helps readability. Generally, don't use dashes if your name has only two words in it.

Domain names include the Top Level Domain (TLD). The most popular TLDs are .com, .org, .net, .cc.
.com represents companies or for profit organizations, it's also the most common extension. Most personal Web sites also use this extension.
.net generally represents Internet Service Providers.
.org represents non-profit organizations or groups.
.cc is actually a country domain that has become a popular alternative when .com isn't available. Country domains are typically more expensive and that's the case with .cc.

Though these are general guidelines, you may use any of these extensions when registering your name. If you want to make sure no one else can benefit from it, you can register all variations.

Choosing domain names

This is very important step in the entire process of building a Web site, and due to the recent "gold rush" for dns domain names, it can also be one of the most difficult. The right selection can make the difference between a successful Web site and one that fails to attract any visitors.

It may seem that nearly all "good" names have been registered. This doesn't mean, however, that there's nothing left, you just have to be a bit more creative.

Here are some tips for choosing dns domain names...

• Keep the length between 5-20 characters if possible.

• Try to base it on a common phrase, that's easy to spell and easy to remember.

• The generic TLD .com is by far the most marketable, and thus the most valuable domain.

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Check for dns domain name availability

The next step is to find out whether or not "your" name has been registered. Prepare to be disappointed. You'd be surprised at how many people share your idea. The link provided below will help you conduct this check.

Check if your domain name is available: www.    co.uk me.uk org.uk eu com net org info biz us name mobi tv ag sc

 

This service not only checks them, but also generates a lot of available domain names based on yours.

Domain name generators

If you can't come up with something that works, you may want to try dns domain name generators. With a couple key words, and a company name for commercial applications, they'll usually be able to come up with something acceptable. Here are some of them...

Dotster.com
Just enter the name that you originally wanted and this domain name generator will whip out synonyms, word combinations and other alternatives for you to consider. It can also generate available dns domain names based on the keywords you enter. Even recently expired domain names are included in the search results.

Domain Fellow
Generates dns domain names based on the keyword you enter, and one of over a thousand popular descriptive prefixes and suffixes in their database.

If you still can't find the available name

More than 32 million domain names are currently registered worldwide, but only a fraction represent live, active Web sites. Thousands of these valuable names expire each week, and the competition for their registration is intense.

BizMint
BizMint offers a unique online database which informs people on the dns domain names that are about to expire and become available.

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Domain Registration

Domain registration is relatively simple process these days and can be taken care of for a small fee by a large number of dns domain registrars. Most hosting companies will also register domain names for you.

Before you start the dns domain registration process, you should understand exactly what it is, and why choosing the right name is so important.

The domain registration service is provided by dns domain registrars. These days there are literally thousands of them on the Web, all offering a variety of services, so make sure to shop around for the best deal.

Here are a few inexpensive registrars to start...

www.GoDaddy.com
No. 1 in new dns domain registrations and the second largest domain registrar in the world in terms of total names under management. The current price is $10.69 a year. It also offers a free Starter Web Page with every domain. If all you need is a 1-page site to establish an online presence, you can quickly create a professional Web page, using a simple wizard. No technical expertise or knowledge of HTML code is necessary. Each dns domain also includes 1 personalized email address (you@yourdomain.com) with powerful protection against viruses, spam and fraud.

Omnis Network
It offers low priced domains ($7.95 per year). Available TLDs: .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .co.uk, .me.uk, .org.uk, .ws, .bz, .cc. Omnis also offers inexpensive Unix and Windows Web hosting.

iPowerWeb
It offers cheap domain registration ($6.50 per year). Available extensions: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info and .us.
iPowerWeb is also one of the best hosts for standard and small ecommerce sites. It provides much more disk space and bandwidth than an average site needs, free dns domain name, daily tape backups and powerful website builder.

1&1 Instant Domain
It provides cheap dns domain registration ($8.99 per year). Available TLDs: .com, .net, .us, .org, .biz, .mobi, .name, .info, .ws, .cc, .tv. Each domain comes with Starter WebsiteBuilder (5 Web pages) and email account (2GB storage and up to 200 email aliases). 1&1 also offers a wide variety of hosting plans which include one or more free domains and a free website builder.

Name server (DNS Domain Server)

A name server is a computer that contains a list of dns domain names and the associated IP addresses. When a name is typed in a Web browser, the name server associates that with the IP address and the correct Web site opens in the browser.

The DNS information from the hosting company is required at the time of dns domain registration. If you don't have a hosting provider yet, you can register domain name, that will not be hosted anywhere. After that, you can notify your hosting provider about your domain so it can set up its computers, and then you can log into your registrar and enter the DNS information.

Domain transfer

There are two different types of transfers...

• From one hosting provider to another

• From one domain registrar to another

Transferring your name from your current hosting provider to another is a relatively simple task, and can usually be performed for you by your new hosting provider. Name server updates usually take somewhere between 24 and 72 hours to fully propagate throughout the Internet.

If you want to get your existing dns domain name to work with your new hosting account, you need to update the name server information. This is done through your registrar, or the company that you purchased the name through.

If you've decided to transfer your dns domain to a new registrar, you should know that while no registrars will refund any fees you have already paid, some registrars will give you a credit for any remaining time when you transfer a name to them.

For example, suppose you performed 1-yr. domain registration with registrar 1 on January 1, 2002. If you transfer your name to registrar 2 on June 1, 2002, registrar 2 will require you to pay an additional year's registration fee, but will extend your new registration until January 1, 2004. To see whether a particular registrar offers this program, check the registrar's Web site.

If you do decide to change, many registrars have an on-line system, which allows you to transfer your name to a new registrar in less than two minutes.

Conditions for changing dns domain registrars...

• No outstanding bills or payments to original registrar.

• Domain is older than 60 days.

Domain parking

This is having two or more dns domains point to the same IP address.

Suppose you already have a hosting account and the domain name "something.com." If you register the .net and .org versions and park them to your main account, you would have "something.com," "something.net," and "something.org," pointing to the same IP address, so that no matter which one you typed in, it would still go to the same site.

Renewal of dns domain name

During the dns domain registration, you have to select the length of time you want to register it. To continue the registration after the original expiration date, you should pay the renewal fee.

Some registrars offer a discount if you register dns domain names for a multi-year period. That way, you don't need to reregister them as often, but if your current registrar goes out of business, you'll probably have to move them to a different registrar and pay a new fee.

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