Domain Name-How Do I Get One

November 8, 2011 | By Admin In Great Reading |

If you are going to set up a blog then you will need a domain name. To buy a domain name is an easy proccess which doesn’t take long and is not to expensive.

So how do we go about choosing a domain name. You can have pretty much any word or phrase as a domain name as long as it is available. Choosing a domain name can be the tricky part, you may come up with a great name only to find out that it is already taken. You have got several chances at one word or phrase though, what I mean by this is, say you decided you wanted “fishing party” as your domain name. Then you would be looking for www.fishingparty.com but .com might be taken, so you could go for .net or .org the list goes on. These are the most popular and nearly always get taken first. Others are .info, .biz or .me as I say the list goes on. I would try only to get .com, .net or .org as these are the most trusted amongst web users.

If your chosen word or phrase is not available then you may have to change it slightly, so you could try my fishing party or the fishing party. You will find one that is available and when you do you can buy it.
You will be charged a fee for it that will last a year and it will be your domain for as long as you want as long as you pay the fee every year.

A great place to check out to get a domain name is Dynadot there is a box that says search for a domain, in there type in your required name (without any spaces between words) and hit search. You will be shown the results of what type of domains are available. When you find your choosen name you can sign up for an account and purchase it. It really is straight forward to do, the hardest part is choosing a name that is available.

Although the name fishing party was just plucked from my head as I was writing this post, I checked and the .com and .net are taken. So you can see that it might not be possible to get your fisrt choice of domain name.