Thursday, September 24, 2009

Selecting A Good Domain Name

By Reva Symond

A domain name is quite important for any website. You cannot think of a website which is without a Domain Name System (DNS). Let me tell you one thing that a perfect domain name describes the company's work side view and the creating of logo is also made easy on that behalf.

If you want to decide that which domain is better for various purposes then you will have to go through the subsequent points:

1. Should be short A good domain name should without doubt be short. I have seen many domain names which are more than 50 characters long and spell out the complete company's name. Do you feel that such domains are of good quality? I will definitely not agree with you on this behalf. Let me tell you one more thing that such domain names are very hard to keep in mind and there are more than enough chances of misspelling it as well. Therefore you should not use the long domain name.

2. A good domain name should be unique and should not have been used in any form before Let me tell you that a good domain name should be inimitable. Just consider the google.com. You will not find any other site having this name. How has this happened? The google.com is registered under the US patent and trademark database. It is also registered under the trademark database of most of the countries. Hence you cannot use this domain name. Like Google, you should also make sure that your domain name is only one of its kinds and no other company is using it.

3. Do not try to copy any domain name You should not try to duplicate any domain name which is quite famous. Take yahoo.com as an example. Do not try to use Yaho.com. This will not help your cause if you are thinking for a long term business. Try to be ground-breaking and come up with new ideas.

4. It should be memorable This is certainly very important. Just take an example of the domain names like altavista.com, amazon.com and so on. All these are quite easy to keep in mind. As an example take the amazon.com. How can we forget the Amazon River? Hence the amazon.com is a high-quality domain name. However there are many tricks which can be applied. For example you can use any rivers name or any machine name which suites your companies profile.

5. A good domain name should hit the target viewers This is certainly quite important. If accessible you should unquestionably select the .com domain. You can also select the .net domain. The main motive behind this is that most of the viewers in US are familiar with .com or to some extent .net. So it would be better if you choose any one of the above two.

These are some of the tips regarding the domain name. It is hundred percent sure that if you will follow these ideas then you will come up with some great domain names.

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