Five important things to think about before buying a domain name

1. What is your site?

What will you be doing with your site, what will you be selling, what’s the point of it? Write down a brainstorm of your main purpose for the site, and side branches, generate a whole heap of words, and use keywords search to see what is searched for and what isn’t.

2. The key words.

You’ve found the keywords you like. Now, think about domain names that go around them, if you used pcrepair, pcrepairz.com is an easy one to choose.

3. The history of your domain.

What has your domain done before you found it? The wayback machine may well tell you.

4. Registering the domain.

Do you want a Top-level-domain? *.com is the most sought-after domain name, but if your website is intended to get hits from your area, a local ending might be better. For me, I registered both minguscasey.com and minguscasey.co.nz, both pointing to the same site, as I am a New Zealander, and I want a profile online.

5. Preparation.

Someone said, don’t do something if you can’t write 500 good words on the topic before hand, or atleast get your skills up to the point where you can. That’s what this is, I recently registered Godsdreams.com and PCRepairz.com and figured I would write about this.