Domain Tips and Tricks

[Roman]

1. Auto-Renew Domains
Most good domains registrars allow you to auto-renew your domain names. This will prevent you from losing your domain because you simply forgot about it or didn't have the time.

2. Lock Your Domains
Domain registrars allow you to lock your domains. This prevents unauthorized people from transferring or stealing your domain. By default, your domain should be locked, but you may want to double-check to ensure this is the case with your registrar.

3. Register Your Domain Anonymously
For a nominal fee, a domain registrar will allow you to privately register your domain name. This prevents your private details such as your business address, phone number, and e-mail address from being made available in the WHOIS database. The WHOIS database is a publicly available database that reveals information about domain owners. It has become a popular place for spammers to extract e-mail addresses. Another good reason to register your domains anonymously is to prevent your competition from knowing about your websites.

4. Use WHOIS Services
Use WHOIS.sc (www.whois.sc) and DomainsBot (www.domainsbot.com) to find good domains. If you've ever tried to register a domain you know how hard it can be to find a good domain name. You can spend hours searching for an available.com.

5. Use Automated Domain Registration Service
Use SnapNames.com to backorder a domain. If the domain you want is unavailable, but will be expiring soon, you should consider using an automated domain registration service such as SnapNames.com. This service will automatically try and register the domain for you once it becomes available.

[Octavian]

Cool tips! I am planning to put up my own website and this is very useful. Anyone who can give me a design idea?

[blue dolphin]

There are sites offering web design templates such as freesitetemplates.com, templatemonster.com and templatesfactory.com, to name a few. Some offer free services so you can get started.

[Manny]

Originally Posted by Octavian

Cool tips! I am planning to put up my own website and this is very useful. Anyone who can give me a design idea?

As far as web page design is concern, may I suggest GetMyWebSite? It offers wide variety of free sites. Remember that you don't need to have backgrounds in web development.

Originally Posted by blue dolphin

There are sites offering web design templates such as freesitetemplates.com, templatemonster.com and templatesfactory.com, to name a few. Some offer free services so you can get started.

Again, GetMyWebSite offers superb templates. From Sports to Business, to Family, to Church, etc.

Feel free to visit their site:

[Thesa]

The rule is just “K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple and Short”

Some tips for the creation of domain names:

a) They should not be too long to remember, for if a person can not remember it, he/she might not come back.

b) They should be short, simple and nice sounding names, so that the person can easily remember or recollect the sites’ information like the famous online names like Yahoo!, Google, MSN etc

d) However, names should be short, avoid long acronyms. Initials are a strict no-no.

e) The domain name should reflect the product or service which your business is offering as it helps the visitors to remember. It can be like this site, which had chanced upon, http://www.stopsnoringadvice.com, which gives some advice to stop snoring (the advice given does help).

[ABOTadmin]

I second Thesa. Domain names should be short and easily remembered.

The trend nowadays seem to be english words spelled differently, for example, pownce, digg, sphinn etc. Also people are inventing words that are catchy and memorable like Jaiku, jimdo etc.

Another trick is to split a word making it the whole address- del.icio.us, popuri.us etc.