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Advice and Tips to Find and Register Domain Names
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| To register a domain names without any misfortune, the perfect way is creating them right from the top of your head, convenient, short, catchy and easy to remember, that includes the purpose of your website and/or the primary keyword. But because there are already millions registered, in some cases finding an available domain name, will not be an easy task, and could be time consuming.
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Always search for available domain names based on the purpose of the website and its keywords, since this could help people find your website when making searches for a service you provide or your business name. But don't be surprise or get frustrated if you find the perfect domain for your website already taken but not in use, however, in most cases you can contact the current owner and try to buy it, although it will not be as affordable as buying it directly from a web hosting provider. |
Domains Finding Tips
In order to find which could be the most appropriate name for your website, begin defining what will be the website purpose as previously explained in the Build a Website page, based on this fact your options would be:
 If the website purpose is to give information about a specific topic, you could compose a domain name using keywords related to this topic, for example, the purpose of this website is to give advice about how to make a website, based on this fact, one of the most appropriate names available was WebSiteAdviser.com.
If the purpose is to create a personal website, or a weblog, you could create a domain name using your own name like maryjones.com or mikegonzalez.name, or just register one like political candidates do during elections like george2000.com.
If the purpose is to make a business website or an online store to sell a specific product or service, the best options would be to try to register for example: yourproduct.com, yourservice.com or yourbusinessname.com.
Check Domains Availability
You can check for a domain name availability with any extension directly from WebSiteAdviser.com. In just seconds we will try to get to the main page of the name we want to search for availability, and we will request for "date" in headers, if we get a response to our request, the name is taken, if we are unable to get a response to our request, the name may be available, (other posibilities are that server may be down, not accesible, or DNS entries are incorrect). If a name may be available, you can then go to our web hosting providers page and register it.
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<%
If request.form("domain")<>"" then
' Intruduce the url you want to visit
GotothisURL = "http://www." & request.form("domain")
' Create the xml object
Set GetConnection = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
' Conect to specified URL
GetConnection.Open "get", GotothisURL, False
on error resume next
GetConnection.Send
' ResponsePage is the response, then print it out to the page
ResponsePage = GetConnection.getResponseHeader("Date")
' Write response
if ResponsePage="" then
Response.write("This domain name may be available")
else
Response.write("This domain name is taken")
end if
Set GetConnection = Nothing
else
%>
<% end if %>
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To check for the availability of another name, just click on the Back button in your browser and enter the new domain name to check.
Google's Rationale For Domain Registrations
You must look ahead, plan and manage your domains more tightly than ever before or face the risk of not ranking well in Google search results. According to recently release information, Google might be using your domain name to determine the ranking of your site, since information relating to how a document is hosted within a computer network, can directly influence the ranking of a specific site as Google's way of determining the legitimacy of your domain.
Google may be considering to determine the value of your domain or identifying it as a spam domain, using the criteria of checking the length of the registration to see if its greater than one year or less, based on the premise that valuable domains are often secured many years in advance, while domains used for spam are rarely secured for more than a year.
So if you plan to have your website for a long time, is always a good idea to make the domain name registration for multiple years, to ensure that Google consider the value of your domain and avoid that it is identity as a spam domain. At the same time remember that the longer the length of the registration, the lower the cost by year, so you can save money in web hosting, and have peace of mind about it for a long time. Visit our web hosting providers page to learn more.
Domains Registrations Tips
If your website will be translated in different languages, our advice is to register the same name translated into all those languages, like websiteadviser.com in english and websiteasesor.com in spanish. If a version of the same website will be open in other countries, we recommend always get your domains registered with the extensions of those countries too like WebSiteAdviser.co.uk for the United Kindom.
Another good ideas to make a fast and easy registration, is to add words to the name like “online” in autosoftonline.com, or combine your business name with the location like in yourbusinessmiami.com or yourbusinessatlanta.com. You can also change or miss some characters in the domain name like in wking4solutions.com, use abbreviations like in cpb.com, or add numbers or letters like in cpb1.com or esolutions.com.
Sometimes to find a convenient, short and easy to remember domain name, is not easy so if the purpose of the website is to sell a service or a product, our advise is that before filing the articles of the new incorporation, first create and register the domain name of your choice, and once it is yours, proceed with the incorporation of the new business.
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