After reading plenty of helpful guides and advices on DP for a day after my joining to DP, finally, I had made up my mind to get my own domain to run my own blog as a beginner on internet business. Can I get some ideas here from you guys about how do I name my own domain name and which type of domain name best for starting blog. Sorry for asking this newbie question, as I am now do not have any ideas on how to register a good domain name. Do a domain name related to my own name work the best or maybe I will just get a business domain name...really got no idea now for further steps... Can you guys/girls give me some inspiration? Regards, Amanda
Hi Amanda, One of the tips I received about domain names is to have your core business show up in the name (so pubdomains.com for public domains) thus it is easy for folks to recollect or remember your site. Also a study shows that 5 - 7 letter things are easy to remember (google / yahoo / hotmail all fit in that range !!!) hence domain name should be short and sweet (which makes it difficult to get now... since almost all 3, 4, 5 letter names are already aquired!!!) However you can always go for a .ws instead of .com or .info for a name you want (except people may land up at somesite.com instead of somesite.info... if they don't remember your domain name and extension) thus preferred choice would always be .com you may also try out the tool for choosing names on my site pubdomains.com which gives you options for keywords you put in for your search. and if you take a hosting package for $3.95 / month you may register a domain for $1.99 only for first year... that is a real good bargain cheers Gaurav