How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Website

How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Website

Domain name is the first impression of your website. So be careful while choosing a domain name for your website. Because domain represents your website’s content. A visitor can make an idea about the content of a website. If your website’s domain is irrelevant to your content then you may loose visitors at the very beginning stage when they will search in search results and find your domain name irrelevant to there search.

After deciding the nature of your website you just have to go to any registrar’s website and register a domain name for your website. If example if you go to powweb.com and now check your domain’s availability by filling the domain checker form on the home page of that website. If your desired domain name is still present then you can register it by signing up and making payment by any of the given method of payment. At powweb.comif you choose web hosting service then you need not to set name servers or dns for pointing your domain to a hosting server because this will be done automatically be thepowweb.com.

There are some other recommended web hosts and domain registrars. such aswww.hostmonster.com , www.webhostinghub.com, www.justhost.com

Some strategic points those must be kept in mind while choosing a domain for your website:
Domain name must be your website name or abbreviation of your company or content which your are offering. It should reflect your business or the content of your website.Domain should be an easy to keep in mind to your visitors.Keep it short as possible.Choose a prefix according to your requirement. Such as if your are going to make a website for your organization then .org is suitable. And if your website is for commercial purposes, then choose .com prefix. The most recommended domain prefix is on .com.www.dotomator.com has a powerful tool to choose a suitable domain. Just try it.Avoid using hyphens and numbers in your domain. Because such domains are difficult to remember. For exampleIf you have multiple options to choose a domain name from available domains then choose a very common and known name.Prefer a unique domain name.Your domain name should not the violation of some one’s trademark.If you find that your required domain name is still available then register it quickly.If your business or website is on wider term then it is suggested that register your domain name on different prefixes such as .com, .net, .org etc. In this way no one can use your unique name for other prefixes. You need not to make separate websites for all domains. Run your website on your preferred domain and all other domains should be redirected to your preferred domain.Do not use trademarks or brand names of other companies.Choose a domain name which can be spoken easily and can be understood easily such as on phone or while any one talking about it.Do not choose misspelled words such as “kool” for “cool” because it creates doubt in minds when in case you use it in talking.Don’t use “4″ instead of “for” or “2″ for “two” or “to”.
When choosing a domain name please keep in mind that in future you may broaden your network. So choose a domain name in wide range of your main idea or theme. For example if you are going to make a website about a popular Sports Car “Honda CR-Z” and you have chosen a domain name as “www.hondacrz.com” then you put all the information about that car in your website. And in future you feel that you should add more information about other most popular sports cars then it is not suitable to put your other irrelevant information to this domain. Because you have limited the content of your website at the very beginning step. So keep in mind that your topic must be relevant to your domain name.

Now consider if you were chosen your domain name such as “www.hondasportscars.com” then you can put data related to all Honda sports cars. Now, broaden more domain name such as “www.sportscars.com” or “www.popularsportscars.com” then you can put your all data related to all sports cars. And your website you can categorize your content by brands.