Choosing a domain name for your consulting firm website

Key quotes:

• "Today, domains and domain extensions are no longer just for your website.You can also use them to make the links you share online and promote your brand by sharing branded links to build a higher brand recall for yourself or your business."
• "Using branded links with a .SITE or .WEBSITE domain extension allows you to share content on social media platforms, forums, email and even offline."
• "With no associations to any country or region, no preconceptions and no restrictions, .SITE and .WEBSITE domain extensions are flexible and ideal for businesses and brands trying to build a global audience."
• "How can you use .SITE and .WEBSITE branded links? You can use branded links with a .SITE or .WEBSITE domain extension when sharing content on all your social media platforms."
• "However, if you’re a new business or a late-comer to the online world, nothing says “I’m here” quite like a domain name with a .WEBSITE domain extension."
• "If you’re a web developer, UX or UI designer or a graphic designer, it’s likely you spend a good chunk of time sharing links and trying to get people to click on them."

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• "You absolutely must have a domain name to start a website, and I don’t want the domain name to hold you up from taking action."
• "For instance, when I’m referring to Unsettle in conversation, I always say “Unsettle dot org”, because I don’t own the .com, and I know that would be the assumption."
• "There are plenty of awesome domain names that aren’t a .com, and some that are very popular: So, while a .com is preferred, it’s not necessary and a different domain ending won’t ruin your search engine rankings."
• "You have a list of words and phrases related to your topic, so now it’s time to find synonyms for those words."
• "Now that you have dozens and dozens of words and synonyms for the original words you came up with, plus the additions from a domain name generator, go down the list and cross out any that you don’t like."
• "But if you’re a normal person and don’t want to spend the amount of a (junky) used car on a domain name just to have the privilege of a .com, then you have a few options: If you’re still trying to choose between two or three, crowdsource it!."

Transcript: In this video I'm going to show you a really good way you can find excellent names for your products your business your blog or your website now if you've ever tried doing this you probably know just how difficult and frustrating this can be especially when you finally think of a name only to find out that domain name is not available well in the next few minutes I'm going to show you how to save yourself hours of wasted time and frustration so you can quickly and easily find new ideas with available domain names and even logo designs using just free online resources so you can save thousands of dollars so let's get started so the first place we'll go to is a site called Shopify now just this is just to give you a quick overview of what Shopify is it's actually a site where you can build your own online stores and if you click the link below to take you straight here to get 14 days free trial if this is something that might interest you you can build your own free stores sell your own products which are ever products you like to... See more →

Key quotes:

• "For example .pro requires you to be a government employee or government business Pick a domain name with confidence using a vetted company to buy domains from."
• "The .mo gTLD, .m requires you to sign up on the website that says it can take up to 3months to register the domain, that’s because .mo comes from Macau’s country code."
• "You can buy short names, multiple words, names with SEO words, names with funny extensions like .ninja, and new domain types are popping up with the addition of new countries joining the internet revolution."
• "Pick a domain name with people squatting on the dot com."
• "So, when someone buys the dot com and squats on it, everyone thinks that’s a sign to avoid using that word or key phrases, but to us, it’s a sign to buy the other domain."
• "If the primary domain name has a squatter selling the dot com, buy the other domains and build a company! I don’t mind buying the domain because someone thought it was a good idea already."

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• "For choosing a perfect domain name we use Domain Name Generator it helps us to generate several domains based on the keyword."
• "All you need to do is just follow the below-given steps for choosing a perfect domain name for your blog Domain name length is very important for SEO."
• "for choosing a perfect domain name that ranks higher in search results it length matters."
• "if the domain name length has more than 15 characters then it is very difficult to rank in 1st page of google search results."
• "if you use more than one hyphen or number in your domain then it is very difficult to remember your domain name which may affect your traffic."
• "it also affects your Google search results, your post may not rank on google 1st page easily so don’t use hyphens and numbers in the domain."

Transcript: Hi Alex here with some tips on how to register the best possible domain name for your business domain name represents your business address on the internet so it's worth spending some time brainstorming for the best possible domain name for your business to start with you want your domain name to be short memorable and relevant and when i say short one word is ideal but they're becoming hard to find and so you might have to go for two or three words in your domain name of course there are always exceptions for example a site like finest free online games com has four words in the domain name but that was to capture free online games phrase in most cases you're better off with a two word or three words domain name next make sure that your domain name is easy to remember and finally make it relevant remember that place is like google com or amazon.com had to invest lots of money and effort to associate their domain name with their service and they probably only did it because domain names like Serge calm or books calm were not available next when you register a top-level... See more →