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Whenever you want to start your own business online, you need to create a good website. You can obviously hire a website design company but what about the domain name. A domain name is the name of the website, the address or the URL that a user types in to go to your website. Understanding the significance and thepotential of a good domain name is very important.The domain name market is big with lots of companies selling dotcoms for your business. Whenever looking to buy a domain name, you should be very clear with what you want.Let us find out what makes a domain name good.

The most important thing to remember while choosing a domain name is to keep it short. A short domain name means a 7-10 characters name. An average domain name size is 11 characters long whereas longer names have up to 20 characters in it. Short names are easily remembered and typed than the longer ones. And you surely want to provide your online visitors with ease of access.Longer names are often misspelled and are confusing.

The domain name you select for your business should be able to describe your business. If people get to know about your business through your domain, it would the best thing they can have. For you it will help in getting higher search engine rankings.

Always have the correct spelling for your domain name. Do not use tricky ones to add style to your business.For example, if your company's name is Three Monkeys, please don't use 3monkeys.com to make it short rather use threemonkeys.com that is much related to your company.

When you set out to buy a domain name, you’ll find that your selected name has already been taken or there are lots of others similar to it. It is advisable to have some more domain names as options in case you do not get the most preferred one. If dot coms are not available, try looking for dot nets and dot orgs.Keeping extra choices is always good in case of domain names.

Top level domain (TLD) names are the most wanted extensions. The three TLDs are .com, .net and .org. The .com (Commercial) domain is for commercial websites, .net (Network) is used for technological websites whereas .org (Organisation) is used for non profiting organizations and NGOs. Other important domains are .info (Information), .biz (Business), .tv (Television), .edu (Education), etc. Country specific domain names, such as .co.in or .in are used to denote country specific businesses. .in and .co.in are country codes for India specific domains.

Whether using .com or a .net domain name, make sure that it relates to your business.Choosing good names shall help you in ranking high on the search engines. They add to the personality of your business making it much more reachable and easy to find.

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