Top Five Articles On How To Choose A Domain Name
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Choosing a domain name in my opinion is one of the most important decisions when you decide to start a web site or a blog. The domain name represents a lot of your online site and if you choose a bad one you can end up paying for that for the entire life of the site.
Because of how important choosing a domain name is, today I invested some time into searching the net towards finding what I feel to be the top 5 written articles on helping you with learning the proper ways in choosing a domain name. These five articles will teach you quite a bit. They will teach you no only the process involved in registering a domain name, but also, you will learn about how so choose the right words or phrases in your domain name.
All in all, I think that after you read these five articles, you’ll come out being an expert in the process of domain name selection. To me, that is very important. If you are into building web sites or blogs, you have got to have the proper skillset in selecting and ordering killer domain names.
In no paticular order:
- 12 Rules For Choosing The Right Domain Name - This article was written on Feb 2nd, 2007 by RandFish from seomoz.org. He explains that he has covered this topic ones before many years ago, but added that it was indeed time for an update. This is a very excellent article to read.
- How To Choose A Domain Name For Your Web Site - This is a very powerful article that covers many DO’s and DONT’s of choosing and selecting domain names. I don’t know who the author is.
- How To Choose A Domain Name For Your Web Site - Same title, different article. This one was written by Dana Greenlee, the Co-Host for WebTalkGuys. This article gives you some added insight on misspellings, using hyphens and numbers.
- How To Choose A Domain Name For Your Web Site - Hmm… again, very common title but also again, a very nice written article. I don’t know who the author is, but in this article you get some special tips on brainstorming and phrase combination strategies. Very useful and nice work.
- Tips On Choosing A Good Domain Name - This article was written ny Christopher Heng. What I like most about this article is that it provides new beginners with a very easy to swallow pill covering the basics of domain names and how to order a very good one for your site.
If you want to know which one is my favorite, I would have to say the one written by RandFish from seomoz.org. Not only is this article amazing but the entire seomoz.org web site and community is amazing.
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Date/Time: 7-13-2008 00:31:33 Comment #16921
Hey Garry,
My one and only piece of advice on this subject is this: Use a spell checker!
I registered a domain that I thought would be great. Not very SEO friendly but a great phrase. Well apparently I suck at spelling and I mis-spelled a word when I submitted it.
That site is dead and I won’t be renewing it. Oh well it only cost me $5.99 not a bad price for a very valuable lesson. (I can laugh about it now, but I was pissed at myself)
P.S I have stumbled this post as my 500th stumble and I used a spell checker.
Date/Time: 7-13-2008 00:50:22 Comment #16923
OMG… you would not believe how many times I have done that. There was one night where I was just hitting the GoDaddy form like crazy, just looking for some names to add to my list and then I came upon one that was HOT… and I was like “NO FREAKING WAY!!!!!” This domain name is going to save the day… I am going to be SO FREAKING RICH!!!!
So, happily I ordered the domain name… and went to bed feeling AWESOME!!! Life was perfect… again, I was going to be rich!!!
So… that next morning, I was waking up and I had already dreamed about all my plans on this domain name. I already had everything planned out in my mind and I was really to start building.
I had the DNS pointed to my server and went to configure my server and all was great…. went to have lunch and tend to a few other things. As you know it can take a few hours to get the domain name pointed to your server.
So, after lunch I checked to see if the domain name was live (nothing yet). A few hours later… still not live… I called GoDaddy.com to see if they could speed things up. They ran a test and said the domain name was pointing fine, but it didn’t appear to be pointing to my server correctly.
“You’re nuts… I set this up myself. This is on my own server too… I know what the hell I am doing!”
They said give it a few hours…
A few hours later… my domain name still isn’t LIVE!!!
WHY????
I am going to be RICH!!!
Finally later that evening after totally destroying Apache and demolishing my server thinking that there was something wrong, I finally realized that I wasn’t going to be rich and that I also made a ton of work for myself with messing up my server all because I….
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Misspelled the domain name that I ordered.
Life sucks and then you die, unless you can spell and order the right freaking domain name!!
LOL!!!!!
I can laugh about it now… but OMG I was so freaking PISSED OFF when I realized I misspelled that domain name. Again, I was going to be rich!!!
Ha Ha!
Date/Time: 7-13-2008 00:44:45 Comment #16922
LOL, that’s funny. Not because you screwed up, but because I’m not the only one anymore. I did that when I registered my very first domain name. I was so excited that I just typed in the name I wanted and hit the button. Imagine my surprise when it dawned on me that I missed 2 letters in the middle.
Yes, it is a very valuable lesson to learn. I’m just thrilled that I’m not the only person to have done that. LOLOLOL
Date/Time: 7-13-2008 00:52:13 Comment #16924
I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have done that. More than I would like to admit. LOL!!!
Date/Time: 7-13-2008 02:19:18 Comment #16927
haha..no wonder ur “domain” isn’t up..because u misspelled domain that u ordered..good experience you had haha..but becarefull when you gonna buy it next tiime !!
Date/Time: 7-13-2008 23:29:01 Comment #16943
I did the same thing as you Garry. I dreamed up all the possibilities and directions I would take it. I was so excited and then boom the dream was dead.
I thought the only hope I had left was that maybe I could capitalize on it and score some traffic by other people mis-spelling the same phrase…..Nope turns out the proper domain was registered as a premium parked domain. So nuts to that.
How are you adjusting to the 1 post per day on here? I’d image your upcoming post queue is pretty long by now
Date/Time: 7-13-2008 23:31:27 Comment #16945
one post per day sucks.. I started up a separate blog within the blog that allows me to post deals.
I am indeed having post withdrawals.