Domain Name

"Supplementary Tips - Learn about the Do's and Don'ts When Choosing Domain Names"

5 Supporting Tips for Domain Name

There are many do's and don'ts about domain name flying around on the web, and if you were to gather them all, you might wind up don't know what domain name to register.

I've done lots of domain name registration and known that it all boils down to these few additional tips.

They should be sufficient to give some good ideas about registering a domain name.

But do take note, it doesn't mean that you cannot use what is being discussed here, in fact you can, but just that you must know when to use them appropriately.

Avoid Numbers Unless...

People are not used to remembering domain names with numbers, unless the numbers form a significant part of your brand name.

For example, if the brand of your product is called "G6000", then logically you should register g6000.com and create awareness for your brand so that visitors know about "G6000", right?

You can also use numbers in this way to promote your products such as "56daysOnlineProfits" or "16successways" etc.

As long as it makes good sense, there's absolutely nothing wrong with including numbers in your domain name.

But don't include numbers just because they're cool or they're your lucky numbers.

It's not cool and hardly brings you luck if people simply cannot remember what your cool or lucky numbers are.

The end result could be... zero sales. Period.
Avoid "and" in Your Domain Name

Is it barnes-and-noble.com or barnesandnoble.com or barnes&noble.com or barnes-&-noble.com?

What a confusing name!

I seldom go there, but when I do, I always have to figure out which one I should try first (I have very lousy memory).

Even at the time of writing this tip, I have to go try out which is which before I can tell you which is which here.

Quite troublesome at times.

Especially nowadays web surfers are getting more and more impatient (I'm one of them), and if they have to figure out "is it this one or that one or the other one...?".

Then when they got to the wrong site the first and second try, there will hardly be a third try unless your website has something they need very very badly.

Really, unless you have a compelling reason to include an "and" in your domain name, try to avoid that.
Avoid having the Last Character of First Word the Same as First Character of Last Word

If you're going to register a domain where the first word has a last character that is exactly the same as the first character of the second word, for example, "domain name", should you go for domainname.com (double 'n') or domainame.com (single 'n')?

Hard to decide, right? Because there's a tendency that people might spell domainame.com (single 'n'), and you don't want to lose this group of visitors who may well become your customers.

So what you can do is to avoid such a name.

However, if you "die die" must use names like this, then the best alternative is to include a hyphen in between to minimize confusion, like this => domain-name.com (looks better now, right?).
US or UK English?

Avoid using words like "color" or "favorite" in your domain name because they both have another spellings called "colour" or "favourite" respectively.

You can register for both possibilities.

But if you just want one and only one domain name, then the best thing is to look for alternative keywords to eliminate the likelihood of people from different regions typing your domain name differently.

For instance, instead of using "favorite" or "favourite", you can find some other keywords of similar meaning using a free thesaurus tool and then mix and match to see which keywords fit the best and roll off the tongue.
Using "to" in Your Domain Name

If you register tipstobuycar.com, you should also register tips2buycar.com. Why?

Since "to" and "2" rhyme, you may need to get both domain names registered because if you register only one of those such as tipstobuycar.com , the other name, tips2buycar.com might get hi-jacked later by some domain squatters (aka cybersquatters) who "specialize" in profiting from such possibility.

Do you want to run the risk that people flock to your competitor's website (tips2buycar.com) instead of your tipstobuycar.com?

Or if you want to cut cost by getting only one domain name for one business, avoid using "to" or '2' unless, again, it's your brand name that you want to promote or other compelling reasons that you have to include "to" in your domain name.