How to chose your domain name !

Hey guys, 

I got some bad luck today. I wanted to buy my domain name for the website and just noticed that the name I was thinking for some time, was taken this week. I am very frustrated now, because I didn't bought this until now. Anyway, I don't have to change to much for the project, the only thing is that I need to find another name, and it is a little hard. So, I started to read about how to chose a domain name correctly. I am listing below some important stuff you need to know before you buy your domain name.

1. There are two types : Generic names, or Brand name Domains.
You have to be very careful, and think about the future of your website. You're best choice would be a Generic name, if you would want to build a news, blog, forum, because you are not giving something specific, but more things that have to do with the name ( I guess ), but if you want to sell something, a product, you're best choice would be a Brand name. It's something like this, if you sell phones, you can't put phones.com because there are a lot of competitors. My advice is to chose a more specific name, like smartphone.com ( you know what i'm trying to say ). This is the first step into choosing a good domain name.

2. Try to make the domain name unique. Many websites fail just because they got similar names. Think that 20% of your possible unique visitors will come back by direct typing the website, and they miss a letter or something and end up into the competitors website. You really don't want that. So try to pick up a good domain name, unique and special, but keep in mind also your public.

3. If you want type-in traffic, you MUST buy a dot com domain. Here is why, because the public who enters your website by typing it, are very prone to put a dot com at the end. However, if you chose another type of domain, you will have to be very careful to promote your website as name.net or name.org.

4. Try to get short names. They are easy to remember, type and they are a lot better in promoting, posting them, making a logo for your buisness and they also allow you to put more characters into the url.

This are a few tips you have to think before you spend money on a domain. This are basic stuff, but with great power when you want to make something great.

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