Top 7 Web Domain Name Registration Mistakes
by David Murry
Hello My Friend! So you are going
to reserve your new domain name. If you avoid these top 7 web domain name
registration mistakes you would not only have more valuable domains but also a
high resale value if you want to sell it later on.
7. Waiting to Reserve Domain Name till Finish This Article I don't know how but
it seems that a good domain name do not come in to the mind of a single person.
May be up to hundreds of people are thinking about that domain name. And the one
who reserves it first is the winner. So if you have a good domain name in mind,
don't even wait finishing this article. Go and reserve that domain name first.
You do not have to use that domain name at all if you later found it to be not
so fit. But you have it, you can sell it or use it for something else or at
least you won't be sorry because domain names are very cheap these days.
Remember domain names are cheap but only until they are not reserved.
6. Register Someone Trademark as a Web Domain Name Do an exhaustive research
that your domain name is not someone else trademark. Laws are changing rapidly
everywhere and even ordinary surfers feel bad about a website when its web
domain name is looking like a cyber squatted web domain name. Also there is a
chance of getting legal notice for doing this. They may not ask damages but they
can easily take back domain name! So please either do not use anything that
looks like some trademarks in your domain name or do a research. Again if a
trademark infringement war starts you would be in better position if you have
reserved it first so get it now!
5. Spelling Your Web Domain Name Is Difficult Can anyone easily spell your
domain name At least your possible customers should be able to spell it right
the first time. Try this: Talk to someone on phone and ask to spell your domain
name. If he needs to confirm the spelling by re asking then probably it is not
an easily spelled domain name. Make your domain name easy to spell because that
avoids typing mistakes and also you would not have to tell every one twice about
your domain name spellings.
4. Domain Name Having No Connection to Business Name Try as much as possible
that your domain name is your business name and vice versa. If it is not
possible then you have to publicize two names, which is not only difficult for
you to market but difficult for the customers also because he has to remember
two things instead of one.
3. Not Protecting Domain Hijacking Double check your name and contact is listed
in Whois as owner and technical contact of the domain name. Your hard developed
domain can be hijacked by your ISP or the person doing registration for you. Not
all are bad. Some may be lazy only. They have already typed their details that
can be auto filled in to registration forms. But this is their problem. You
should insist your name and contact email on Contact Information. Mostly used
fields are: Registrant Contact Information, Administrative Contact Information,
Technical Contact Information, Billing Contact Information.
2. Anything Other Than Dot Com for Business Web Domain Name Registration If you
are registering a domain name for business purposes then make sure you get it in
dot com like "YouDomainName.com". There are many reasons for this like it is the
default extension in user minds and in most browsers. If you get say "YouDomainName.Net"
then you would be one-way sharing your traffic with "YouDomainName.com" which is
not a good idea.
1. Domains of More Than 7 Letters Though Domain names can have up to 67 Letters
length, very few people would be eager to type your domain name for just seeing
your offers. Also typing errors grow exponentially with lengthy names. So
whenever possible use least possible domain name length.
About the Author:
David Murry is an Domain Name
Analysis Expert at
Solaxim :: Domain and Web Site Design Experts.
His website contains more articles related to domain name services.
Source of article:
www.goarticles.com
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