Awesome: you have a brilliant idea for your blog or website, you know you will follow through with it, and you can feel ideas forming in your mind.
Now you have to get a domain name and put that idea of yours on the web!
A domain is the address of a website. For example, webjourney.me is the primary domain for the website you are currently viewing.
Before registering a domain name, it is important to choose your topic, and choose your domain name. I highly recommend reading both of these posts before registering a domain name because they can save you a lot of frustration later.
Registering a Domain Name
A domain register sells domains. I recommend choosing name.com, namecheap, or Godaddy as your domain register. .com domain names cost about 10 dollars a year from these registers — the cheapest price you will find domains for.
The most common way to get a domain name is to search for one through domain register’s search engines; however, if you are having trouble finding a good domain you can try these three methods.
Snapping a Domain Name
For a fee, domain snapping services (such as pool or snapnames) will attempt to "snap" a domain when it becomes available. The use of these tools is highly recommended when you want a high quality domain name that will soon expire. If you don’t use these tools then quality domain names will be registered long before you get a chance to register it yourself; a human cannot beat a domain snapper.
Buying a Domain Name
A great way to get a quality domain is to buy it. Buying a domain name can be as cheaper than registering a domain name regularly or as much as millions of dollars. Finding a domains for sale is easy; finding one that suits you for a reasonable price will take hours of searching.
Look on Sedo.com or a domain forum such as namepros for domains that are for sale. Note that some domains will be for auction and others will be for sale. Consider looking at some auctions to catch a great deal.
Expired Domains
Every day, hundreds of domains are not renewed or dropped. Many of these are bad, but searching through lists of expired domains can prove to be useful.
Another benefit of expired domains is they often already have links pointing to them and are indexed in Google. Expired domains can serve as a sort of jump-start for your website.
Of course, some expired domains can be banned from Google or shunned by other websites. Take this into consideration, and research before you purchase an expired domain.
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