How to Buy a Website Name to Boost Your Business+
03 May 2024
Want to do a domain name registration for your website that will give your brand-new business a boost? Think of this as your all-you-need-to-know website domain education. Here we run through everything from how to buy a website domain names, to working our way through some tips for website/business name coherence.
Seven fast tips for buying a website name
- Start by choosing a powerful business name
- Keep it short, keep it simple
- Avoid slang terms
- Forget about hyphens and numbers – they’ll probably confuse
- Don’t buy a domain name that’s intentionally similar to an existing website
- Opt for a .com
- Check for trademark conflicts before buying your website name
Key question: How do you check website name availability?
If you want to know whether a domain name is available, you could simply run a search on a domain registrar website. Such sites will return either an ‘available domain’ message or, if the domain is unavailable, it will present alternatives. These alternatives to your preferable site name will either include different word/letter combinations in the website address and/or different domain extensions. For example, you check whether a website name is available by typing in www.isthisdomainavailable.com. As it isn’t available, you might be presented with the following options… www.is-this-domain-available.com OR www.isthisdomainavailable.net www.isthisdomainavailable.biz www.isthisdomainavailable.cc And so on.Key question: how to buy a website name?
You have several options for buying a business name…- You could purchase your domain name from the company that hosts your website
- You can use a domain registrar
- You can purchase from a domain marketplace – such as brandnic