Domain selection tips, Web Development & Web Hosting services

Below are some of the Domain selection tips which will help you select the best domain name for your industry and business area:

1. Introduction and Meaning.
2. Selecting the correct TLD.
3. Domain names are preferred to be small.
4. Seo friendly domain names.
5. The domain name sholud be checked by trademarks.
6. Check the domain name availabilty.

1. Introduction and Meaning.

For selecting the best domain name suited for your web business you need to first understand the meaning of domain name and the types osf domain name available in Internet. Domain names are actually URLs used to identify particular Web pages. A domain name is divided intof three parts: the second section is kown as domain separated by a "dot" and the third section is a TLD. TLD means Top level domain i'e third section and thus the second section is called as second level domain. Every domain name has its own TLD. TLD differs according to the categories and types of websites.

Most common top-level domains:

• com - Commercial, for commercial websites & profit organistions.
• net- Networks, for organistaional websites.
• org- Organisations, for non profit oganisational websites & individuals.
• edu- Education, for educational websites, degree ganting colleges & universities.
• info- Information- for informational websites.
• gov- Government, for websites ruled by Government, federal government agencies.
• uk- for United Kingdom websites.
• us- for United States websites.
• ca- for Canadian websites.

2. Selecting the correct TLD.

.com TLD is the most popular and common domain TLD used today nationwide. You can select a particular domain extension according to the category of services offered by your websites as mentioned above. However .com TLD is the best for commercial websites looking ahead for online profit making businesses.

3. Domain names are preferred to be small.

Domain names are usually preferred to be small as short and snappy domain names just explaining their product brands or categories are easy to remeber and to pronounce. You should make sure yourself while selecting a domain name that the name is clear enough to spell and make sure that it can be easily pronounced over the phone calls or on the radio.

4. Seo friendly domain names.

The most important search engine i.e. Google gives lot of weight to keywords in the domain names. So it is more efficient if you select a domain name which is small and explains the name or category of your product or if the domain name is the name of the important keyword itself. On the contrary I would prefer that you keep your domain name elegant and user-friendly. When page ranks come into priority Google gives higher ranks to Domain names having TLD as gov, in, info, org, and then com. The reason after this is that search engines gives importance to websites offering enormous data even termed as guide, dictionary, webopedia or encyclopedia as this helps visitors to study things online thus hitting huge traffic on their serach engines.

5. The domain name sholud be checked by trademarks.

Many times customers are fooled by the web hosting companies by giving them domain names which look similar to trademark rights and protection but actually are not the regisetered trademarks. The second level name in the domain names are many times copied or similar to other names. So before selecting a domain name make sure yourself if the domain name offerred to you is of registered trademark. You should not buy domain names of recognized brands or trademarks that actually doesnot belongs to you, even if they are available in the market. It's a violation of copyright law and you might owe an punishment for this in court of laws.

6. Check the domain name availabilty.

Your web hosting company is a very important part of your online presence in Internet. Check availabilty of domain names from here..

Log on to http://domains.creativewebhosting.net
for booking your domain names & web spaces.

Click here for more articles related to Website Development.

Birth of a Professional Website.

Articles on Web applications and Web application Knowlegde base.