You may ask yourself. Why do I need one?
Like any trade name, logo, or brand name, your domain name represents a part of your business identity - something customers and business contacts can recognize, remember, and associate with your services or products. Registering your domain name will at very least prevent someone else from using it. More important, however, is that with your own domain you have the opportunity to reach an audience world wide. If your not in business you may wish to register a name for your own personal website - or as a gift for another family member. A unique opportunity to buy something that once bought will be unavailable to anyone else. Alternatively you may wish to buy a domain for resale, a popular choice in today's e-environment. You only need to look at the stories on the News to see that the right name can sell for thousands.
Our advice would be to register your preferred domain name now even if you're not yet ready to have a web site: Email us if you would like us to check to see if your domain name is available.
Advantages:
Increases your name recognition.
Makes it easy for your customers to remember your address.
Helps brand your image.
Some search engines will only index the first page of a domain site
Domain names containing 'keywords' aid in higher search engine ranking
Allows you to use your domain address (www.yourname.com) and virtual email addresses (yourname@yourname.com) on your business cards and letterhead.
Once a domain name has been registered, it is no longer available. The most popular and easily-remembered domain names are being reserved daily, at the rate of one domain name every 5 seconds!
Avoids somebody else from registering the name you want.
How To Select A Domain Name:
Make it as short as possible.
Make it memorable.
Make it easy to say.
Make it easy to spell.
Make it pronounceable.
Make it descriptive of your site's content.
Make it a name you can brand.
Make it non-confusable with another domain name.
Make it directly related to your business name
Make it directly related to keywords from your industry.
