How to Choose, Register or Transfer a Domain Name

Every professional business should be keeping up with the demands and needs of its customers, if it is to survive. One of the essential tools of any business these days is to have a professional web site. This begins with choosing and registering a domain name that will clearly identify and brand your business online for many years to come, so you need to choose wisely. What is your experiences and suggestions ?

1. Try to register a short and easy name that your customers and visitors will associate with your Website. You have to keep in mind that people need to be able to remember it, and easily type it into their browser.

2. Using your company name is usually the best idea. Try and avoid hyphens and special character names even if the name is long.

3. There are many different extensions available right now. For businesses, I would recommend a .com extension. It is the first extension that most people type when searching for a website.

4. Avoid Trademarked Names because you may land in trouble if the particular company to whom the trademark belongs takes a legal action on you. Also the trademark name may not be very useful to you and your business.

5. You can also register similar domain names with different extensions. If you have "yourname.com" you should register "yourname.net" too. You don?t need a separate web page for each of those names, several domains can point to the same website.

6. When you have selected a few available names, see what your friends and clients have to say. It is possible that a name that may make perfect sense to you but may be too hard for them to remember.

Once registered a domain name and want to publish it you should have a hosting service from a hosting provider and change the nameservers to the nservers of the provider.i.e ns1.companynameserver.com, ns2.....( In case domain name is registered somewhere else)

Apart from .com, there are also .net, .org, .biz, .info... TLDs.And also for countrys like .be, .cn, .jp....

now all i need to think of a good domain name that is available. i want it to be catchy.