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3 Top Mistakes Made When Choosing a Domain Name Published on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 by CMather Admin

Every day thousands of web sites are launched on the online world. And each of them is offered under a unique domain name. CMather.com statistics show that most of such sites are related to business rather than personal sites.

To open a business is similar to building a house. Before you start building, of course you have to lay the firm foundation. The house will only be safe for living when a firm and secure foundation is constructed with a quality building plan. So, don’t forget that a good domain name is a high quality foundation, in other words a successful start-up for your business.

Not everybody takes buying a domain name into account. Some people consider that if a domain name they have chosen doesn’t fit their needs there won’t be any problem with buying another one. Buying an incorrect domain name can have drastic consequences towards your business. People remember domain names and often can lead to difficult situations or confusion when a domain name is changed.

So, to choose the right domain name you should take the following tips into consideration:

1.      A domain name should be simple and easily-remembered.
It’s better to choose a short, simple name that is suitable for your company profile. What do you do if all the optimum short domains are in use? No trouble. In this case you can choose an easily-remembered word or word combination. In fact, not shortness, but simplicity and memorisation are more important criteria to stamp your web site’s address onto the memory of the visitors and clients. For example, if you want to buy a short domain name such as bendigohosting.com for web hosting business but it is already taken you can consider buying bendigowebhosting.com. The main thing is that it will be easily remembered.

2.      Avoid hyphens and digits.
Every company wants a professional image on the Internet. From this point of view a domain name plays an important role. The domain name introduces and represents your company profile everywhere on the online world.  If you use hyphens, various digits or other signs in the name of a website, it looks unprofessional. You can even lose your potential clients because of an untidy or complicated domain name. In other word, except letters, use various signs only when it’s just necessary, or you cannot find another alternative variant.

3.      The domain name should correspond with the company profile.
The third important criterion in choosing domain name is to take into account the features of the product or service you offer. The more the domain name fits your business profile, the more you have a chance to be popular towards the online market. You can always redirect domain names to one central point. So having 5 domains names for your products and services is a great way to increase your reach on the online market.

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5 Responses
  • by Naveen December 3, 2009 at 8:11 am

    Thanks for this tips, I usually uses hyphens and digits when the direct domain name is already taken, will it affect my business?

  • by Lathika December 5, 2009 at 5:32 am

    Yeah,It is really helped me.I wasn’t consider these mistakes.Now I think it was my failure.Now onwards I will choose domain with a great care.I will share this to all

  • by Aitcheson December 23, 2009 at 2:22 pm

    Thanks for these information. One important thing I found with choosing domain names is that the extension. Most of the people go behind .com. But I heard that .com is not available any more. Is it true?

  • by Julianne Kibble December 28, 2009 at 12:49 am

    Good information. Choosing and registering a domain name is a simple and inexpensive marketing action. As it is simple, many companies make some basic mistakes. You described it well. Nice work.

  • by Earlene Villalva January 3, 2010 at 3:14 am

    I will follow what you mentioned here. I like to say one thing. While selecting a domain name keep in mind the golden rules that are a domain name should be easy to remember, easy to spell, and easy to pronounce.

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