Posted by Fione Tan, head internet marketing coach

Domain name prices are the same whether if you have a great domain or a bad domain. What is exactly a good domain name? Here are some tips to help you register your million dollar domain name.

1. Insert your product / service keyword into your domain name

- using a keyword in your domain name allows internet visitors to know what your website offers. For example, if you are using selling jewelry then you can add in this keyword to your domain name, such as 1SpecialJewelry.com

2. Avoid dashes in your domain name

- have you seen the domain names like my-website.com ? Not only is this domain name hard to read out, your visitors might just forget this domain name and end up in your competitors website of mywebsite.com

3. Use simple words and spelling

- avoid using “big” words that visitors might not understand and always spell check the keyword before you register this

- there’s nothing worse that using a keyword that you cannot even spell properly (and result in you even misspelling your domain name)

4. Choose the international domain name (top level TLD)

- rather than just registering your eonenet.com.my for local Malaysia market or eonenet.com.hk for the Hong Kong market, grab the eOneNet.com name as this name is easier to remember.

- what if your competitors own the .com and you only registered the .com.sg version? Then, it’s advisable to register another domain name where you can grab both the .com and the .com.sg (otherwise customers who do not type the .sg will end up going to your competitors’ site)

5. Register both the singular and plural versions

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Posted by Fione Tan, Head Internet Marketing Coach

Ready to register your own domain name? Unsure what needs to be done before you choose your domain name? Here are some popular questions asked by entrepreneurs that are starting an Internet Business. Part 1 discusses the issues related to registering a domain name while Part 2 will be covering other topics such as how to transfer a domain name.

1. Do i need a website before i register for a domain name?

No, you don’t need a website before registering a domain name. When you find a great domain name, wait no more and directly buy this .com name first and then decide on how you want to create your website

- normally your domain registrar (the website where you purchased the domain name from), will give you a temporary under construction webpage

2. Do i need to buy hosting before i register for a website domain name?

- you don’t need a hosting account initially as well. Therefore, unless you already know how you will design your website and what software you will choose, then you can add on the web hosting packages at a later date

- some domain name company also offers online site builder like the do-it-yourself website builder we have at http://www.eonenet.com/eoneweb/affordable_web_design.htm where you can just use the given online templates, fill up the forms and your website can be ready in minutes

- if using Dreamweaver or Frontpage to design your website, you will need to buy a hosting account to host your website files

3. Can my website have more than 1 domain name?

Yes, your website can have more than one domain name. This doesn’t mean you display all the registered domain names in your website home page as your website name. You can setup the domain forwarding or url forwarding for each domain name to all go to the same website or to individual different webpages.

Some domain name reigstration companies such as FreeDomainsRegistration.com provides free email forwarding, free starter webpage, free domain masking and other services with their domain name registration fees, while other companies might charge you separately for each of the service.

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