1. Good Domains
Tips, tools and more tips on selecting the name
for your company’s web site

3. PURPOSE

4. PURPOSE

5. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS

6. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS

7. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE

8. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE

9. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE

10. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE

11. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG

12. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG

13. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET

14. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET

15. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET
.COM

16. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET
.COM

17. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET .BIZ
.COM

18. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET .BIZ
.COM

19. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET .XXX .BIZ
.COM

20. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
.ORG
.NET .XXX .BIZ
.COM

21. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
YOUR BRAND
.ORG
.NET .XXX .BIZ
.COM

22. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
YOUR BRAND
.ORG
.NET .XXX .BIZ
.COM

23. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
YOUR BRAND
.ORG
.NET .XXX .BIZ
GEOGRAPHIC
.COM LOCATION

24. PURPOSE DEMOGRAPHICS
INTENDED AUDIENCE LANGUAGE
YOUR BRAND
.ORG
.NET .XXX .BIZ
GEOGRAPHIC
.COM LOCATION

25. Good Domains are:

26. Good Domains are:
Short

27. Good Domains are:
Short
Memorable

28. Good Domains are:
Short
Memorable
Hard to misspell

29. Good Domains are:
Short
Memorable
Hard to misspell
The business name or relates to business
name

30. Good Domains are:
Short
Memorable
Hard to misspell
The business name or relates to business
name
Sounds solid to your target audience

32. Avoid hyphens

33. Avoid hyphens
Opt for dot com if its available

34. Avoid hyphens
Opt for dot com if its available
Avoid numbers in the name

35. Avoid hyphens
Opt for dot com if its available
Avoid numbers in the name
Buy extra domains

37. Use easy to spell words

38. Use easy to spell words
Register early and often if necessary

39. Use easy to spell words
Register early and often if necessary
Do your homework

40. Use easy to spell words
Register early and often if necessary
Do your homework
Ideally, when naming business consider
domain names

41. Whois Tools

42. Whois Tools
Domain Tools.com

43. Whois Tools
Domain Tools.com
Nameboy.com

44. Whois Tools
Domain Tools.com
Nameboy.com
Bustaname.com

45. Cybersquatting
registering or using a domain name with
ill intent to profit from the trademark
belonging to someone else. The
cybersquatter then offers to sell the
domain to the person or company who
owns a trademark contained within the
name at an inflated price.

46. Domain Tasting
the practice of a domain name registrant
using the five-day "grace period" at the
beginning of the registration of an
domain to test the marketability of that
domain.
The first 5 days a domain registration
must be fully refunded by the domain
registry.

47. Domain Spying
Avoid address bar guessing.
Avoid search engines that don’t make a
billion dollars a year in revenue. (Google
is good)
Avoid browser plug-ins that send data
back to the Internet.
Go directly to trusted registrars and

48. enom.com
namecheap.com
hover.com

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