How to search, buy and register a domain name.

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HOW TO SEARCH, BUY AND REGISTER A DOMAIN NAME.

As I said in my previous post titled “Brief Explanation Of The Major Terminologies

Used In Website Designing”, a domain name is nothing but an identification string

that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority control within the

internet. Example of a domain name: ceeceecomputers.com , this is my own domain

name, that means whenever you click or insert the address in a browsers address

field, it will directly take you to my website homepage where you will know more

about me and my business, so whenever you hear of a domain name, just know that

it is just that name/address you use to identify yourself or your business online

(Website).

In this very article, I promise not to waste much of our time but to deal directly with

topic we are faced with here.

So since you have known what a domain name is, the next question that might be

running through your mind while looking at the very topic we have on ground is

“How can I search for a domain name”, okay just calm down and read on, all the

questions running through your mind are all going to be answered in the next few

paragraphs.

Now let’s start with the first question;

How can I search for a domain name?

As you can see I used “How can I search” instead of “How can I get” a domain name,

this is because you don’t just get your preferred domain name at anytime you wish,

since there is internet and you are not the only one that wishes to own a website,

after all the article you are reading now has its own domain name. So what I am


http://www.ceeceecomputers.com/ceedailies/2015/08/11/brief-explanation-of-the-major-terminologies-used-in-website-designing

http://www.ceeceecomputers.com/ceedailies/2015/08/11/brief-explanation-of-the-major-terminologies-used-in-website-designing

http://www.ceeceecomputers.com/


trying to say is that you first have to search on a domain name registrar website

your preferred domain name to see if it is available or not, assuming it is available,

it will be written “Available” with price tag, if not, it will also be written “Not

available”.

Now let’s say that your preferred domain name “mydomainname.com” is not

available e.g. (see image below).

The domain name registrar I am using for this particular site which I also used to

show the above image example is “Registeram.com” and I think their services are

okay; their uptime for me is around 99% which means that it has a very negligible

downtime.

Please forgive me if I have taken much of your time talking about the above

registrar, all the explanations are just for better understanding not for

advertisement, after all they paid me no dime.

So now that your preferred domain name isn’t available for registration, the next

thing is for you to do some modifications to the domain name by adding a hyphen,

rephrasing, rearranging or by totally using a different domain name. Now if I add a


http://www.registeram.com/


hyphen to it at any position, it will surely make a change but who knows the one

that will be available….Okay let’s see!!

Now adding a hyphen after “my” yet it’s still not available which means that

somebody owns this great sites or any domain name that isn’t available. I even went

ahead to change the domain name to my “mydomain-name”, yet not available.

Lastly I changed it to “mydo-mainname” wow!! Available but looking at the domain

name, you will see that it isn’t giving the exact information we wanted. Your domain

name represents your business, it can simply be your business name, but if that your

business name isn’t available, then you look for another domain name that is still fit

to represent your business. Okay let’s not waste much time and try to get an

available domain name.

Rearranging it won’t work, e.g. rearranging it to “namedomane” or “manedoname”

isn’t the right way to go, this is because the domain names aren’t related to a

suppose website with domain name “mydomainname”.



Now the best alternatives left are;

Entirely using another domain name that is still related to your website or

business name.

By changing the domain name extensions. E.g. “.com, .net, .tv, .ng, .com.ng,

.solutions” etc.

Entirely Using Another Domain Name:

As you can see I changed the domain name and fortunately it was available for

purchase.

By Changing the Domain Name Extension.

Looking at the image above, you can see that we still achieved the originally

intended domain name “mydomainname” with a different domain name extensions

(.ng and .solutions). So if really you must use your originally intended domain name,

then be ready to use any domain name extension available.



NOTE: ALL DOMAIN NAME MUST BE IN LOWERCASE i.e. Small letters.

SUGGESTIONS/PRECAUTIONS:

Avoid domain names that are too long, preferably use short or abbreviated

domain names, the reason behind it is that short or abbreviated domain names

are easier to be remembered than long or unorganized domain name. But it

isn’t bad to use long ones if you must.

Example of long, short and abbreviated domain names.

a. Long Domain name: mydomainnameinternationallimited.com

b. Short Domain name: mydomain.com

c. Abbreviated Domain name: mdnil.com, this is just the abbreviation of

the long domain name above. The abbreviation must be meaningful.

Purchase a domain name immediately the domain search result tells you that it

is available. The reason behind this is that some fake domain name registrars

tends to purchase any domain name that seems very useful to an individual or

a company, then after when you will need it, they will now come and sell it to

you at a very dubious/costly price, and so many other reasons.

Don’t share your proposed domain name on any social media platform or

forums asking suggestions to know if it is okay for your business, you might lose

it when someone in the same business as yours sees it nice and sharp. Rather

ask for their own opinion and suggestions regarding to the kind of business you

do.

For beginners that needs a website for maybe learning, blogging, website

designing/developing, I suggest you go for annual domain names registration

with shared web-hosting instead of monthly subscriptions, it is

cheaper/affordable.



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HOW TO BUY A DOMAIN NAME:

Now that you have gotten your preferred domain name, the next thing you have to do is

to purchase the domain name by clicking on the ”ORDER NOW”, but before you do that,

you must be a registered member of the registrar’s website.

To be a registered member, you need to signup i.e. create an account with the domain

registrar and to achieve that;

Go to sign up/register

Carefully fill in the form provided and proceed to payment page.

You can pay with any payment option/medium of your choice, i.e. through

Voguepay, PayPal with your debit card which can be Verve, MasterCard or Visa

etc.

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