Planning to start an online business? Then, it’s time to choose the right domain name for your business. It’s important to have a domain name of your own even if you are going to promote other businesses (affiliate marketing). First think about which domain name(s) makes sense for your business.

Your domain name is your identity and people uses that to find your business. Now should you go with a .info, .biz or similar domain names? No!!!

Just go for a .COM domain name. Search Engines give more importance to .COM domain names. Also, people trust a .COM domain name more than any other domain names.

Now analyze the ‘Keywords" for your business and use that information to select a domain name. It’s because having a keyword rich domain is critical for your online business.

Start your "Keyword Research" using the following keyword suggestion tools.

Overture Keyword Selector Tool

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

Wordtracker

Good Keywords

SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool

Now select those keywords which are popular and rank them according to its popularity.

Registering Your Domain Name

Registering a domain is very easy these days. Just fill up the form and pay using your credit card (or PayPal).

There are tons of websites which provides domain registration service. I have registered around 24 domain names. I didn’t register all those domains from one site instead I used different services.

Recommended Domain Registration Services

I recommend three domain registration services namely GoDaddy, Netfirms and Yahoo! Domains.

GoDaddy is the largest domain registrar and it surpassed Network Solutions in terms of total domain names registered. GoDaddy offers one of the cheapest domain registration service. GoDaddy charges you $6.95/year for a domain name and charges additional $6.99/year if you want to enable Whois privacy.

Netfirms charges only $4.95 for the first year and then $9.95/year from the second year onwards. What I like about Netfirms is that they give domain Whois privacy absolutely free. So its a deal.

Now, what’s up with Yahoo? Yahoo! Domains charges just $1.99 for the first year. Renewals are at $9.95/year. What about Whois privacy? Yahoo! charges additional $9/year for Whois privacy.

If you want to enable Domain Name Privacy then I suggest you to go for Netfirms. And if you are looking for the cheapest domain registration service then choose Yahoo! Domains. Finally, if you want to join the largest domain registrar then register it with GoDaddy.

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