Setting Up on the Internet Pt II - A Guide To Business On The Internet For Newcomers: Choosing a Domain Name
Even if you're new to surfing the Internet, you probably know what an URL is. But in case you don't, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is essentially an address on the Internet for a web page or some other file (image, document, script). An example is the address of this blog (at the time of writing): http://www.chameleonintegration.com/blogs/netmarketing/index.html. This is the "address" that you will see in your web browser while viewing the main web page of this blog. Actually, you may see http://www.chameleonintegration.com/blogs/netmarketing, which is considered to be the same thing, but that's a story for a later post.
Another term you will come across on the Internet is "domain name". In the above URL, the website's "homepage" (front door) address is http://www.chameleonintegration.com. The domain name is "chameleonintegration.com". A domain name is the base identifier for setting up a website and related services. If you want to run your own website, you will need a domain name. Presumably, you would like a domain name to match the name of your business or service, or possibly your own name. My consulting business is called Chamleon Integration Systems. I did not want to have chameleonintegrationsystems.com, as this is quite a long name. I checked a number of different variations, but many of them were already taken. I finally settled on chameleonintegration.com for my domain name, but realized after the fact that I might also have selected cisystems.com, chameleonis.com, etc. Choosing one of these, of course, is more than likely to impact my company logo. Which brings me to an important point: Don't have your online logo designed until you have selected and registered a domain name.
Before you choose, make a small list of possible domains that appeal to you, and that you think would be relatively easy to for your website visitors to remember. In the next post, I'll talk about the different types of domain name suffixes (.com, .biz, .net, etc.) and which ones are best to choose from. In the post after that, once you've selected a domain name, I'll tell you how to check to see which domain names are available for you to register.
(c) Copyright 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://www.chameleonintegration.com/blogs/netmarketing
Another term you will come across on the Internet is "domain name". In the above URL, the website's "homepage" (front door) address is http://www.chameleonintegration.com. The domain name is "chameleonintegration.com". A domain name is the base identifier for setting up a website and related services. If you want to run your own website, you will need a domain name. Presumably, you would like a domain name to match the name of your business or service, or possibly your own name. My consulting business is called Chamleon Integration Systems. I did not want to have chameleonintegrationsystems.com, as this is quite a long name. I checked a number of different variations, but many of them were already taken. I finally settled on chameleonintegration.com for my domain name, but realized after the fact that I might also have selected cisystems.com, chameleonis.com, etc. Choosing one of these, of course, is more than likely to impact my company logo. Which brings me to an important point: Don't have your online logo designed until you have selected and registered a domain name.
Before you choose, make a small list of possible domains that appeal to you, and that you think would be relatively easy to for your website visitors to remember. In the next post, I'll talk about the different types of domain name suffixes (.com, .biz, .net, etc.) and which ones are best to choose from. In the post after that, once you've selected a domain name, I'll tell you how to check to see which domain names are available for you to register.
(c) Copyright 2005-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://www.chameleonintegration.com/blogs/netmarketing
