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As written on Wright Creativity *
The first step in getting your website up and running is
picking your domain name. You want to pick the right one that best portrays your business, industry, or relevat to what your website is.
Company Website
You first will want to try seeing if your company's name is available as a domain name. If so, great then you are on the way. If not, you will have to do a little more research. What does your business provide? What is your industry? For example, my company does web design, hosting, maintenance, domain registration, etc. everything a person will need to get a website up and running. Now, luckily my business name was available as a domain name! I currently have registered;
www.theeverydaywebexpert.com and
www.kylereddoch.com, both of which goes to my company's website.
Let's say that my company's name wasn't available. What would I do? Well I would have to look to what my company does. Maybe even the region where my company is located, or town. I would then put all those together and find the right domain. Here are some possible domains that I could use for my industry:
Just take some time to
search available domains and find the right one that fits your company.
Personal Website / Blog
If you are creating a website for personal use or a blog, you might want to go a different route to decide your domain name. For personal websites or blogs, you can have your name as the domain name. For instance,
www.kylereddoch.com is a great one for me :). You can also have a domain name that suits what the purpose of the website or blog is about.
You want to make the domain name easy to remember though. You don't ever want a person trying to remember your domain name...because in all reality, they won't.
There are thousands of possibilities for domain names out there, you just have to find the RIGHT one!
~ Kyle Reddoch