Having your own domain name is a very important part of your website. An unique domain name shows that you are taking that extra step in presenting a professional website.
Many use the "free" server space that many of the ISPs provide for their business website or are a subdirectory on someone else's business server. These options simply are not going to cut it.
Sumantra Roy of 1st Search Ranking has written an excellent article, Importance of having your own domain name. Building up credibility, the search engines, professionalism are all points he makes. Check out the details.
Chosing a Domain Name
Normally you will chose a domain name what is your company or business. If that is taken, then you need to chose one which is represents your business or product the best.
You can use Touchstone Hosting's Domain Name Services to find a domain name or numerous products to secure or promote yours.
Paul Easton of www.CreateToolbar.com has written a nice article, How to chose your own domain name indepth. Paul talks about hypens, keywords, searching etc. This article covers a lot of info. For more great articles on domain names, see our article section.
Tool to Find Great Domain Name(s)
Touchstone Hosting did quite a bit of searching for a tool to offer its visitors/customers to help in finding a domain name. We found X Domain Spybot 2004.
This simple program provides a number of invaluable services. The main thrust of the program is on expired domain names. There are thousands of domains that expire each day-many are well established names with their own link popularity and traffic. By buying one of these names, you can instantly tap into those resources and start a step ahead. Click here for screen shots.
Tools that are built into the program:
- Domain Name Manager: All expired domain names that are found through the program are added to the main list, which sorts the domain names by length. You can then browse for domain names through a new browser window
- Domain Name Creator: Enter a base word, and the software will create and check the availability of thousands of domain name possiblities.
- Yahoo and Google Searches: Given a search term, the program will automatically search through Yahoo and Google looking for expired domain names.
- All Two, Three and Four letter domains: The program will search for all two, three or four letter domain names.
- Full Word List: A list of millions of potential domain names, which can be checked for availability.
- Custom Word Lists: The program has lots of word lists, from computer terms to business words, to entire dictionaries, which can be checked for availablity, or you can create your own wordlists to scan! Just put one word or domain name on each line of a text file.
As an official reseller of X Domain Spybot 2004, we can offer this great tool for only $8.00. At this price, you can't go wrong! Satisfaction guarantee! Windows 98 or better required.
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