How To Find Domain Names That Are Impressive And Available

Say you have a nice looking website either for your personal use or for your business; the next thing is to host it on the World Wide Web. You need to find a web hosting provider to host your site for you, as well as a domain name which the users will type in the browser to get to your site.

Here are some thoughts on how to find domain names that would impress your clients or readers. A good web address has certain qualities, and knowing them will benefit you when you look for one for your website.

Features of a Good Domain Name

Following are few things that you should be concerned of when you look for a domain name. First of all, a domain name should be fairly descriptive in the sense that a user reading your website address name should get a brief idea of what your website is about.

Or at least it should be good enough to arouse their curiosity to go in to your site to see what it is about. For example, a web address, such as www.readgoodbooksonlineforfree.com tells you that it goes to a site that allows you to read e-books – most importantly for free. This web address has almost all information you need to know about the site.

Next, your domain name should be short enough for the user to easily memorize it. Most online users tend to memorize the website address that they frequently access, and having a short web address makes it easier. Also, in technical aspect, the maximum character length of a domain name is 63, so when you look for a name, make sure it doesn’t exceed 63 characters.

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Finally, a domain name should be simple, in the sense that it should not have complex phrases and special characters. Not including numbers in your website address name is also a good practice. It would be embarrassing to lose a customer to a competitor’s website, just because that website’s name is less complicated and easily memorized than yours.

How to Find Domain Names?

Here are some tips on how to find domain names that suit your website:

Domain names are unique. That means that there can’t be two web addresses with the same name, just like it is with emails. There are a lot of online tools that allow you to check whether the domain name that you prefer is available. Most of these tools also suggest alternative website addresses that more or less resemble the one you prefer, if that one is not available.

Further, most of the domain registrars and web hosting companies provide the facility to check the availability of web addresses. Once you find the website address that you prefer, you can buy it from a registrar such as goDaddy. They are the companies who sell web addresses. When choosing a domain registrar, there are a few things to consider such as reputation, ease of payment methods, server uptime, etc.

Jack Jameson

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Jack Jameson loves to share useful information about domains (interesting to know is that the Danish term is domæne). His favorite hosting company in Denmark is UnoEuro.