yogi3939
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Another member posted a thread titled "web site naming". I gave a more complete answer to him than I gave here. This is what I posted on the other thread.
Naming a business, and its website, can be a very personal thing. I will try to give you some tips but I won't suggest actual names.
1 - You are right about simple and easy. My e-mail is ****-Inc@*******.net and my website is www.****-Inc.com. Both the same and since the real website name (not **** by the way) is actually the short form name of my business name they are relevant and memorable. However you have to be pretty creative or have a pretty unique business name to stay simple nowadays. FYI - I am not showing my real site name here because it is not related to photography but to industrial engineering and consulting.
2 - When you consider that there are many good hosting sites you may want to do what I did. I didn't want my domain name tied to any particular site so I could take it with me to a new hosting site if I needed to. So I went to mydomain dot com and registered my domain name there. Then when I did set up my web site I didn't care what it was called on their server. All I had to do is go back to mydomain dot com and do what is known as a stealth forward. Let me give you an example. Say my domain name that I own on mydomain dot com is sassy.com (other extensions like org and edu are also available) but I set up my web page on vistaprint and named it yackety yack.com. The stealth forward function lets me, and my potential customers, go the sassy.com and end up at yackety yack.com without ever seeing the stupid yackety yack.com name. If you then decide at some point in the future to change hosting sites from vistaprint to some other host all you have to do is go back to mydomain dot com and change the stealth forwarding pointer to the new web site name and nothing else, like your business cards and flyers, has to be changed. This is much easier than trying to move a website to a new server and trying to take your name with you from the old server. And in the case of vistaprint all their names have this format "www.sassy.vpweb.com. Obviously you cannot take that whole name with you to another host server.
3 - At mydomain dot com you can also do searches for names similar to what you want that are still available. And you can, if you find that the name you really want is taken, make an offer to the current owner of the name to buy it from him through this website - http://www.buydomains.com/
4 - As to the hosting servers, there are many good hosting sites now with some very good features for a low cost per month. Vistaprint, for example, has three package levels and the top one is still pretty low cost with nearly unlimited bandwidth and a ton of features you can build into your page from the dashboard. It is no longer neccessary to have a professional design your site to get a good looking one with all the features like slide shows and many others thrown in.
5 - Mydomain dot com also has the ability to post metatags and a meta description to help you get hits from search engines. Just another reason to use it or a domain name site like it.
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