The domain name is the entry to your site. Domain name represent your business. You need to pay attention to it, because your company name will not always be the best domain name you can get for your website. There are certain considerations you should keep in mind when choosing the domain name you will use:

• Your domain name should be easy to remember for the intended audience
• Your domain name should contain keywords so it helps your site positioning in search engines.

With these in mind, you will soon discover that your-company-name.com is not always the best alternative.

The domain name is a tool you can use to help your business grow. Spend the necessary time thinking about possible domain names, and trying to find their good and bad aspects.
A good idea is to get more than one domain name and point them to the same website. So if people type your-company-name.com or they type your-keyword-rich-domain.com they get to the same website. This way you can still use your company name as domain name, and also some other keyword rich name you register.

Another good idea is to register common variations of your chosen domain name. For example, if you register mydomain.com, you could also register my-domain.com or mydomains.com.
Once you come up with the domain name(s) you want to use, you need to register them. The first step is to check if they are available, because they could have been already registered by someone else. Once you have verified this, you can register them for a period of time, and they will be yours to use for that period. You can always renew them afterward, before the period expires.

P.S.Group is new. I started group for people who is new to domain industries, and those who already have knowledge. If you have any suggestions, or questions , please feel free to share with all of us. I’m also active bido expert on auction site to sell and buy domain names. If you want to share your experiences or need help let me know.

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Now is the time for Webmasters to get in on Central nic domain names! That’s right—thanks to the availability of central nic domain names, all webmasters can get a chance to get the domain name they desire by registering for a domain name with any registrar that handles central nic names. Think about it; registering for a central nic domain name has so many advantages.

1.Central nic is a domain registry offering alternative to the TLD and Country level domains. Get the domain name you want with a .com extension!

2. uk.com, gb.com, .eu.com, and more are all available from domain registrars. Thus, if you missed out on your opportunity to get a .uk, .gb, or a .eu domain name, you will get a second chance to get the domain name you desire when you register for a central nic domain.

3.If you are set on a name that has been taken by another Webmaster, a Central nic name can be a good alternative. With a Central nic domain name you can still get the domain name you want with the added commercial extension. Don’t settle for a second choice domain name—get your central nic domain name precisely the way you want your domain name to be.

4. The commercial extension in a central nic domain name is already well established.

5. Using keywords in a domain is useful for SE purposes—yet, it can be difficult to get a domain name that is keyword enriched if the applicable domain names are already taken. Now, with our central nic domain name offerings, you get another great opportunity to get a keyword enriched domain name that will immediately improve your search engine ranking.

6. You don’t have to worry about compromising a memorable domain address—the .com extension is easy to remember and hardly increases the length of a domain name at all. In fact, with so many domain names ending in .com, the commercial extension is almost expected by web users.

7. Registering for a central nic domain name now will ensure that you get in on the most popular domain names available. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to get the most popular domain names available. Popular domain names that draw significant traffic to websites will disappear quickly. Thus, the sooner you register for your central nic domain name, the better your chances will be that you get the exact domain name that you desire.

8. Beat the rush—you already know that on April 7, 2006, the Landrush phase for .eu domain names will commence. Why submit an application in hopes that you will be able to get the domain name you desire. Instead, secure a central nic domain now with a .com extension and ensure that you get the domain name you want.

9. Whether you want to establish a business website or a personal website, there is no restrictions when you apply for a central nic domain name. That’s right; anyone can apply for a central nic domain name, even if their website is not for commercial use.

Now is the time to get in on all of the central nic domain names available—the more time you spend delaying—the lower your chances are for getting in on the most popular central nic domain names.

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Have you heard about domain names that sold for over a million dollars? Inspired by this, you imagine registering a great domain name, hanging onto it for a while, and then selling it off to become the next multi-millionaire.

First of all, many of the truly great domain names are already taken. Second, the dot com bust took some of the wind out of inflated domain name prices. (If you sell your domain name for millions of dollars worth of stock in a publicly traded dot com flop, what is the name really worth?)

The cybersquatter buys domain names totally on speculation. Sometimes he will register names of famous brands, companies, or individuals. Time and again, these domain name speculators learn the hard way that they must respect intellectual property rights.

However, you can still make money from domain names if you are sensible in your approach. Here are some suggestions on ways to profit.

1. Affiliate Programs: Use your domain name to promote an appropriate affiliate program.

2. Informational Sites: Create content and then profit from it by earning advertising revenue through Google AdSense or a similar program.

3. Redirect to Your Own Site: Some reasons you might want to do this include preventing competitors from using a particular domain name and benefiting from searches some users perform by domain name. (For example, if they wanted to order flowers, they might just type “flowers.com” in their web browser.

4. Product Sites: Create your own or sell someone else`s product appropriate to your domain name.

5. Park Your Domain Names: You might feel that your name has real potential for resale value. There are companies that will allow you to park your domain on their servers, advertise that your name is for sale, and split advertising revenue with you.

The trick is to generate traffic for your domain name. That traffic in turn will create revenue.

First, you will have a fully developed website. A fully constructed building on a piece of land increases the value of the real estate property. Similarly, the value of your domain name is enhanced by a complete and operating website.

Second, you have traffic. Just as a shopping mall with no traffic results in no sales, so a website must have traffic to generate income.

Third, you have income.

Similarly, the gross income, net profits and cashflow of a website have value. For example, if someone offered you $1,000 for your domain name and website when it was generating $10,000 per day in profits, you would likely laugh at him.

You really can profit from your domain name investments by adding value and properly developing your web properties.

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Along with the introduction and the function of the domain name, there comes the so called “domain name disputes” which becomes one of the hottest subject of most domain name queries and discussions.

What are the domain name disputes and its nature? What is the cause of the domain name disputes?

Well, the domain name disputes are considered to arise largely from the practice of cyber-squatting.
For your information, the cyber-squatting as a primary cause of domain name disputes involves the pre-emptive registration of trademarks by third parties as domain names. This particular cause for domain name disputes greatly exploit the first come first served nature of the domain name registration system that is intended to register the domain names of the trademarks, popular people or even businesses with which they have the bond. Along with such factor, since the domain name registration is typically a simple and inexpensive process, which is noted to have less than US $100 in most cases, most of those who are engaged into cyber-squatting often undergo certain domain name registrations wit hundreds of such names as domain names.

In such case, the domain name disputes largely emerged. And in relation to cause of domain name disputes, the domain name disputes also surfaced when the cyber-squatters, as the domain name holders of such registrations, are considered to have often placed the domain names up for auction, or there are some instances that they offer the domain names for sale directly to the company or person involved, with prices far beyond the cost of the regular domain name registration. The domain name disputes then emerged since they often keep the registration and use the nice name of the person or business that is associated with that domain name with the primary aim to attract business for their own domains.

Today, due to such situation that cause the domain name disputes, it is very sad to know that the number of once handful domain names disputes increase resulting for so many domain name disputes.

. Moreover, the domain name disputes continue to rise since the growing business value of domain names on the web has led to more cyber-squatting, which then results in more domain name disputes and litigation between the cyber-squatters and the individuals or businesses who domain names have been recorded in worst condition. But due to such rise of the domain name disputes, the domain name authority is doing their best to solve the domain name disputes issues and so to help the domain name owners.

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Domain names are the hottest net-real-estate on the internet. It’s no wonder services like: “Domain Name Back-ordering” is available to the public. Can someone really back-order your domain right from underneath you? Guess again…

So what is Domain Name Back-ordering?

This is a service that allows anybody on the internet to reserve a domain name if and when it goes up for sale! Guess again…

Companies all over the internet are ordering this service for website url’s that seem to be popular! What if by chance you just happen to forget to re-order your domain name? Let’s say that you go on vacation and neglect to check your emails that are now telling you to renew your domain name?

Someone else now owns your domain name because you simply neglected your duty to keep your net-real-estate up-to-date!

Unless you own a Canadian domain name protected by the CIRA, or you have a trademark on your domain name or business name, you are “really” out of luck.

. On the flip side, some of those websites are simply a mistake. I think the point here is; avoid making that mistake and renew your domain name for at least 5 years.

Google is apparently looking through the “WHOIS Data Base” to see which websites have the staying power online and are serious by registering their domain name for more than 1 year at a time.

Again, should domain back-ordering be allowed?

Just like a patent for an invention, you should have up to 1 year to claim that domain unless you transfer the domain name to another company or individual. This way we would have less domain name theft and less “hick-ups” from companies who simply forget their important responsibility.

Protect Your Net-Real-Estate!

Your website address is the most important commodity you have online. It is as important as your business name itself. It is what ties your company offline to online. People know you through your domain name. Potential clients may end up visiting your website later on, you wouldn’t want some other company in your place?

Please be careful when give out the access information for your domain name to anyone that isn’t within your trusted circle.

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Your domain name is the .com, .net, .org or some other dot something that people use to get to your web site.

A group of investors headed by Jake Weinbaum (the guy behind Disney’s go.com) paid $7.5 million for the name Business.com back in 1999, aiming to make it a showcase B2B site. Yes, it’s a terrific name — short, sort of descriptive and easy to remember.

Each year for 15 years the first $500K in profit goes toward amortizing the cost of that domain name. That could also pay for a terrific affiliate program, a truckload of banner and PPC advertising, and a nice BMW lease for Mr. Weinbaum (who probably doesn’t need a BMW).

But the Business.com thing has set off a wave of domain name speculation that staggers the mind. People are snapping up domain names and ransoming them off to wide-eyed entrepreneurs with business plans and dreams of riches. Being a hardcore capitalist I am torn about domain name speculation — I am tempted to applaud the person making a buck by getting there first and grabbing up the good names, but I am annoyed at the restraint of commerce that takes place while someone negotiates with one of these guys to get the right name.

So if I look at the top 50 websites on Alexa, most of them should be easy to remember names, right? I would argue that only one, match.com, is an easy-to-remember name that describes what the site is about.

I keep hearing that the reason these so-called generic or descriptive domain names are so valuable is that some people just type domain names into the address bar of their browser rather than using a search engine. I find it hard to believe that someone looking for information on a particular business would type in www.business.com. Furthermore, if I look at the top 50 websites on Alexa only one, match.com, is an easy-to-remember name that describes what the site is about.

I wondered how many people actually type in their address bar (address bar?) instead of using a search engine anyway.

What makes me believe that people typing stuff into their address bar doesn’t happen much is this simple fact. In other words, instead of typing in http://www.ebay.com, people Goggled EBay and clicked on one of the results. That is absolutely hysterical.

If your domain name can get the minority of people who just type into their address bar to your website without a search engine, its worth more than someone who can’t.

Here are some of the legendary domain name sales in the past several years.

$14,000,000 – 2006 – sex.com
$7,500,000 – 1999 – business.com
$5,500,000 – 2003 – casino.com
$5,000,000 – 2002 – asseenontv.com
$5,000,000 – 1999 – korea.com
$3,500,000 – 1996 – worldwideweb.com
$3,350,000 – 1999 – altavista.com
$3,300,000 – 1999 – wine.com
$3,000,000 – 1999 – eshow.com
$3,000,000 – 1999 – loans.com
$2,750,000 – 2004 – creditcards.com

All of these with the exception of eshow.com (computer networking) should get address bar traffic, because people who type will type in the descriptive names — if I’m looking for sex-related stuff, I’ll type in sex.com. If you’re selling something on asseenontv.com that nets you $25, you’ll need to sell 200,000 of those George Foreman grills just to pay for your domain name.

It also dawned on me that if you pay $12,000,000 for sex.com, the free publicity generated is probably also worth millions.

So now everyone gets dollar signs in their eyes and thinks they can make a million with their domain name. Some examples of listing on EBay while ago.

6usiness.com (yes, that’s a 6) – $7,000,000
ajobformom.com – $3,500,000
Exbay.com – $1,000,000

Well, there’s some good news and some bad news.
You can choose a pretty good domain name, put together some terrific content, employ some simple Search Engine Optimization and buy some keywords or exchange some links and you have a pretty good chance of getting people to your site the first time. Since most of them are coming via a search engine they’re not going to notice your domain name until they get there anyway, so your domain name means the same thing (nothing) to the majority of people using the search engine.

One last thing: if you’re hoping to be close to the top in the search results (the so-called organic SEO), having your keywords in the name of your website gives you a huge boost. In this case, Google ignores TLD unless you tell it otherwise.

So if you think getting near the top of the organic search results is more important than having someone type your name directly into the address bar (and you very well could be right), then grab yourkeyword.cc or yourkeyword.to. I’ve done it, and I’ve suggested it to others.

No matter how great your name is, if the content is lousy they won’t come back anyway.

So should you buy a domain name?
I bought the name because I liked it, I liked the number of incoming links to it, and I felt comfortable paying for it. I would try to come up with my own name before I bought someone else’s

Try to go with a .com. It’s the name everyone associates with the Internet. Any other Top Level Domain (TLD) like .org or .net is just going to confuse people, unless it sounds better than the .com. For example, if you are about networking or a network, a .net is more natural. If your site is informational, you should use .info if it sounds okay. Hands down the most ingenious use of a TLD is del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site. The use of the .us TLD is absolutely brilliant.

If it’s a choice between this-domain.com, thisdomain123.com and thisdomain.net, take the .net. No one remembers to put the dashes or the numbers in, unless they are an integral part of the name like studio54.com or e-books.com.

Remember, every additional letter is a potential typing error.

If you have a domain name that needs to be reinforced, get a good logo and sprinkle it liberally on your web site, along with some slogan that will reinforce the name in people’s minds.

If you can save a few bucks with your own domain name or by buying a cheaper domain name, do it, and use the money to get yourself placed higher in the search results or Ad sense placement.

If you can’t come up with a descriptive domain name, go the other way. Depending on your site’s focus, pick a memorable short name that will stick in people’s minds, get a great logo and include the name prominently in your advertising and marketing.

Ask your wife, friend, boyfriend, husband, dog, lawyer, associate, Mom, Dad, cousin, uncle, Police Chief, blog writer.

There’s more good news though — in the real world most domain names sell for $1,000 or less.

Go to a site that sells domain names, and put in a word that describes your business. See if the name is taken (it probably will be). Open your word processor or go to thesaurus.com and put the word in. If there’s a .com available and it looks good, grab it. If not, add the word site or blog or online to your word, and see if that works. Don’t wait.

If you want something a little more sophisticated there are several sites that are good for helping you come up with a name.

Search for a word that describes what you think people will associate the name of your site with, and see what pops up.
Domain Name Journal tracks domain name sales. Going there is always fun.

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Investing in Domain Names?

Not yet? What are you waiting for?
The domain industry is growing, and it’s here to stay. The best decision you can make is to build your investment online in domain industry. The cost to register domain name are between $8 -$15 , and this depends of the domain extensions you are going to purchase. Can you imagine buying the house for $ 8 and sell it for $10,000 ? Well, you can’t . It’s not possible to buy Real Estate for such a low price.

The similarity between investing in Real Estates, and Domain name is lucrative investment cycle. What do you really know about domain industry is small pieces of puzzle. There are few factors to be considered when buying and building domain portfolio, and they are following ;

1.Traffic – amount of the visitors a domain receives

2.Length of domain – quality domain name is short in length, few letters,or at least 2 words ( most of them is registered), but if you are lucky still have a chance to grab some of those domains.

3.Extensions – most popular and well priced is .COM . Today domain market changing quickly, and other domain extensions selling as well.

4.Parking your domain – parking domain allow you to monetize traffic by hosting third party’s ad links on your site. It’s pretty much working the same in Real Estate industry when you rent your unused house or condo and making money at the same time .

5.Selling Domain – desert on the end. How much to sell domain for? The additional factors comes to considerations , keywords, search engine ranking, brand, memorability, and niche market .

Recently I purchased a few one word domains with .IM extension as investment. Why .IM ? As i stated in one of my previous post you can read here is very short domain extension and can be used 2 ways as Instant Messaging or English “I’M “ . For example www.Leader.im Pretty cool huh? Cost is minimal,only 2 Euro which is equal $2,8 US at the moment.

Search for available domains Today

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