Critical Steps To Online Success - Launch Your First Website-how Do You Get A Domain Name?
- Date: 2007-06-27 - Word Count: 347
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What exactly do you need to do to get your website up and live on the web?
Let's take a quick look at some terminology.
When you launch or publish your website to the web you have two basic choices. Either you use your own server (not a good idea unless you're seriously web and computer savvy and have a powerful server) or you use a Web Hosting Service Provider. For a small monthly fee these companies will provide you with space on their hosting servers and take care of all of the intricacies of getting your site up and keeping it active.
But before you can get your website "hosted" you will need to select and register a "domain name" for your website.
A domain name is the body of the website URL you choose. The part between the "www" and the ".com" plus it also includes the extension like ".com" or ".net" etc. You might find that "john.com" is already registered to someone else but "john.us" is available…unlikely because "john" is such a popular name.
These days you need to go through quite a number of choices before getting a domain name you like. Most of the good and easy ones have gone.
Just go to the Domain Name service of your choice and enter some choices in the search box they provide on their front page.
I like to stick with the ".com" extension because that's the one most people default to. They remember your website name and automatically add the ".com" on the end. Why fight city hall and risk losing them.
If you can't seem to get a Domain name you like a good trick is to add an extra word at the beginning or end of your selection to find something that has not already been taken. Quite often these days you will have to settle for something longer than you would initially like.
Let's say you want "SuccessUnlimited.com".
Well unfortunately that's already taken.
But "MySuccessUnlimitedGroup.com" is still available…at least it was when I checked today. So if you like that one then grab it quick.
Keep on winning
Regards
Jim
Let's take a quick look at some terminology.
When you launch or publish your website to the web you have two basic choices. Either you use your own server (not a good idea unless you're seriously web and computer savvy and have a powerful server) or you use a Web Hosting Service Provider. For a small monthly fee these companies will provide you with space on their hosting servers and take care of all of the intricacies of getting your site up and keeping it active.
But before you can get your website "hosted" you will need to select and register a "domain name" for your website.
A domain name is the body of the website URL you choose. The part between the "www" and the ".com" plus it also includes the extension like ".com" or ".net" etc. You might find that "john.com" is already registered to someone else but "john.us" is available…unlikely because "john" is such a popular name.
These days you need to go through quite a number of choices before getting a domain name you like. Most of the good and easy ones have gone.
Just go to the Domain Name service of your choice and enter some choices in the search box they provide on their front page.
I like to stick with the ".com" extension because that's the one most people default to. They remember your website name and automatically add the ".com" on the end. Why fight city hall and risk losing them.
If you can't seem to get a Domain name you like a good trick is to add an extra word at the beginning or end of your selection to find something that has not already been taken. Quite often these days you will have to settle for something longer than you would initially like.
Let's say you want "SuccessUnlimited.com".
Well unfortunately that's already taken.
But "MySuccessUnlimitedGroup.com" is still available…at least it was when I checked today. So if you like that one then grab it quick.
Keep on winning
Regards
Jim
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