The Internet is now getting converted to the central focus for the businesses to communicate, and if in this present online era if you are not present there, definitely it’s going to cramp out the prosperity and the surge of your business and sweep away the potential clients.

If you’re deciding to launch your own business and escort it all over the cloud then be ready for one more important and burning concern “domain name.”

Many intellectuals thinks that domain name is not a salient stuff to be considered, if you find yourself in the same jar than Sorry to say you buddy! But you’re absolutely wrong. Your domain name is as important as your Facebook account and the website itself.

Now, if you’ve planned to grab a catchy domain name, let me tell you it’s not going to be very easy. You must have seen sometimes designers involving more time in deciding the domain names and not in designing the website.

Here are suggestions for you if you’re in the same phase of business.

# Brand: The Identity

Brand, a word which differs Coca-cola from no name cola, Reebok from Reeboke and what not a brand does. Branding is the thing which which can frame and can even rupture your business. Your brand let your customers not forget your name. Many companies invest a lot for their brand identity because it is for your customer’s rely only.

Your brand composes a matter of rely and remembrance of your customers.

Some years before it was not so necessary but today if you’re running a company and desires to convert your product a brand then primary knowledge of domain names is very significant because it is like to your office address. It is the place where your customers can search you and can contact you.

# Extensions

By domain extension what are the words which strikes our mind very first, yes, it’s .com, .org and .net. Indeed, this is a fact that the people who doesn’t grasp more about web, they don’t even think that there is something else exists besides these three extensions.

Sometimes what happens with me is I forget the sites, then in found of the website I start adding all the three extensions after the website’s name, and yes! It works for me almost every time, so what happens with other people as well.These three extensions got so trendy  that visitors now starts expecting companies to use them.

Some companies buys all the three at a discounted price.Trust me, it’s really a good idea after all this is a very witty move to put yourself in the pole position. These three are cheap, popular and recognizable and i believe these three reasons are enough to go for them.

I am not saying that only these three extensions can help you in getting a popular recognition. If you’ll check the domain name of Matt Mulenweg, co-founder of WordPress, I can say it is the coolest domain names ever that is www.ma.tt, he has a Trinidad & Tobago domain, which fits his name accurately. If you can do something creative like this,then go for it.

Related: How to Choose a Correct Domain Name: 14 Top Tips

# Your Location

Before this we talked about the Extensions, now coming to the location, Wikipedia has a long and complete list of world wide TLDs

It depends a lot on your business, your clients,

If you have the company which deals with Danes then using .com doesn’t makes any sense, if you can go for.dk .

Hence if you can be creative as Matt then go ahead and be creative.

# Domain Hacks

Hacks, can be said are those agile stuff to blend domain extension into your domain name. Creating such combinations are really frustrating like anything, don’t worry there are options available which will spread hands to help you in the same.

If you have prepared yourself for Domain Hack then I’ll suggest you for Domainr

People get pulled up by Hacks not only because they are stunning but also because this is the best way to get the most convincing domain name for your company. Find your domain name might frustrate you, so go for hacks.

# Leagality

Okay You have chosen your extension considered your location provided Brand to your company. It’s all done, Right? No, it’s not the step when you find yourself at the last stage of finessing your Domain, stop for once and go through the legal norms.

After all you would never like to become a mirror of some other company like you. Always be very clear about if your domain name is creating any legal contention with any other company

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A domain is a web address which helps people to find your website. Most of domain names have three parts which are separated by dots: The third level domain (“www”), the second level domain (company name, product or brand) & last part is top level domain (.com), this may contain country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) like: .us, .in, .uk etc. Most popular domain names are: .com, .info, .biz etc.

Domain name is important for the people who starts their business & wants to promote their business online.

• By using domain name you can reach millions of user.

• It helps to get traffic & lead for your business.

• A Domain name must have at least 3 characters and less than 63 characters.

• Very short domains are easy to remember but expensive.

Good Domain Name Features

• Your domain should be memorable & this is relevant to your products or services.

• Your domain name should be short (two or three words) & easy to spell.

• In domain, you should avoid non-standard characters.

• The Domain name extensions which are chosen according to the nature of the company are more valuable.

• By registering multiple domain extension of a domain name, you can secure traffic & raise your business.

What is Domain Name Lifecycle?

There is a misconception is that people think they have purchased a domain name. But this is not possible to purchase a domain. In fact you pay for rights for using domain name for particular time. You need to learn about the domain name life cycle.

Here are different stages of domain name life-cycle.

Available Domain Name

This is the first stage of domain name life cycle. In this stage domain is not registered & available for all the people.

Domain Registration

Available domain can be registered for period 1 to 10 year. The domain name will become active once you have paid for it. This will remain registered for duration of time you registered it. After that you will need to renew the domain.

Expiration Grace Period (1 To 45 Days)

This is the date when registration period is over. A domain name will stay expired for between 1 to 45 days, this is the grace period. The webmaster can still renew it in this period. The domain would still stay in your domain control panel.

Redemption Period (30 Days)

Next stage is 30 days redemption period. During this period registrar may delete all information about domain. Most registrar charge a lot of money to recover the domain during this period.

Pending Delete Period (5 Days)

Now domain enters pending delete period for 5 days. At this stage, the domain name is locked & there is not any possibility to renew it. So if you want to register it again, you will need to wait while domain name is deleted & available. But you must keep a track because this will available for all & other people can register the domain.

Also Read:

Basic Facts About Domain, Domain Related Services and Service Providers

How to Choose a Correct Domain Name: 14 Top Tips

Hope, now you understand the domain name life-cycle very well. If you have any query or thoughts to share, do drop in comment box below!

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Everybody is well aware of the importance of a name in a person’s life and similarly is the importance of existence of domain name for a business or organization may it is private or government.

We have discussed about domain in our previous articles- Read Here, and now we would love to share some important facts associated with domain since its birth.

• 148,344,875 domains have been registered till date (updates from 2014)

• Symbolics.com is the first ever registered domain name, registered on March 15, 1985.

Other domains registered in following dates are mentioned below:

bbn.com April 24, 1985.

Think.com May 24,1985 and the countdown continues…

• FREE Domains

Yes free, but until 1995. All the domains were free until 1995 and after that the domain selling started.

1995: $100

1997: $70

Then price kept falling frequently after the formation of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers) in 1998.

• The Nigerian domain extension, “.ng”, is the most expensive TLD which is $40,000/ year.

• Vacationrentals.com is the most expensive domain name ever sold in $35 million in year 2007

Others in the list are:

Privatejet.com -> $30.2 million

Insure.com -> $16 million

• All possible combinations of 2 and 3 word domains are already taken and are not available. One may buy them from the seller but at price higher than normal and the price will depend on the popularity and potential power of the name.

• All the a….com domains are already taken and this includes all the combinations for example:

a.com

aaaa.com

aaaaaaaa……………x63.com

• A person name Mike Mann holds a record of registering ~15000 domains in a single day and claiming it as a future economy building work.

• Standard domain name length is 63 characters and currently there are only a few domain names this much long.

• Total number of TLD including ccTLDs: 363

• Worlds shortest domain names are as listed

www.g.cn

www.c.cc

www.m.tv

www.e.tc

www.s.ki

www.b.mp

• Google.com was supposed to be spelled Googol.com

It was a mistake committed by the person who registered the domain as Googol.com was not available but Google.com was available.

• The most common letter with which most of the domains start is “s” followed by “c”, “a”, “m”.

The least popular are “q”, “x”, “y”, “z”.

• There are some domains names already reserved for private testing purpose and are not available for registration.

Test.com

Example.com

Invalid.com

Localhost.com

• Another new TLD which is quite expensive is “.RICH” which costs $1,999/year (as per the sources).

These are certain facts related to the domain names and we welcome the readers to share more of their knowledge with us and add to this article.

Also Read: 30+ Impressive Hosting Facts and Stats

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• Is it possible to host more than 1 domain on single hosting space?

  Yes, this is very much possible to manage multiple websites or run multiple websites on a single hosting panel. For this one may required a package serving the need and you may do this by creating an add-on domain.

  Add-on domain refers to the option where more than one domain may run on a single hosting space and this is not possible by basic hosting plan which allow to run only a single website.

  Add-on domain helps to run multiple websites sharing same bandwidth and same disk space, which can be controlled from a single location, and the outsider cannot find out the background architecture.

  Now, no need to buy new hosting space and spend extra money to run another website.

  Next comes the point as to how to manage the system and do the configuration. For this one may easily contact the vendor and ask for initial guidance and then you are free to use your package.

• What if my .com extension is not available?

  Although one may have big concerns if the .com extension of finalized name is not available as .com is a commercial domain, which is one of the main domains, used by almost everyone.

  But depending on the business nature one may use some other tld too apart from .com

  This is a business where some groups register the domain which are either very attractive or those which was earlier used and famed but for some reasons cannot be renewed. These domains are then sold at price higher than usual. The concern behind this fact is that it is not necessary to buy a costly domain if not affordable, other ways can be thought over.

  a. Choose some other name

  Whenever a name is thought over, we have multiple choices and hence you may drop your #1 idea and shift to another one. This may not be satisfactory but may be helpful.

  b. Register the .co TLD

  Another option can be to choose the .co domain name instead of .com as there is a difference of letter “m” only. This is a good option and visitors frequently read it as .com only.

  c. Domain hacks

  Hack refers to using a full domain name to spell as a word or phrase like read.me, chatwith.me, del.icio.us, get.me etc.

  This is a popular method these days to find an attractive name, which can be easily remembered.

  d. Choose another TLD serving your business nature

  You may choose .in, .org etc. TLD’s for your domain name but make sure no website is running on .com TLD of same domain.

• What is domain status code?

  In the whois lookup one may find the option of status according to which one may decide the working status of the domain. The status will decide why your domain is not working.

  Some of the common status code are as mentioned below

  ACTIVE

  The domains are mainly on this state only and can be used to run website, create email ids and any other process possible.

  REGISTRAR-HOLD

  This refers that the registrar has put the domain on hold and domain cannot be used for any work.

  REGISTRY-HOLD

  The central registry has put the domain on hold and hence domain is not accessible.

  REGISTRAR-LOCK

  Registrar locked the domain and settings cannot be changed.

  REGISTRY-LOCK

  The central registry locked the domain and now settings cannot be changed.

  REDEMPTION PERIOD

  The domain is expired and now the central registry is waiting for 30 days before releasing the domain.

  PENDING RESTORE

  The expired domain is restored to “ACTIVE” status.

  PENDING_DELETE

  The registry is about to delete the expired domain.

  CLIENT_DELETE_PROHIBITED

  Registrar has locked the domain and cannot be deleted.

  SERVER-DELETE_PROHIBITED

  Registry has locked the domain and cannot be deleted.

  CLIENT_HOLD

  Domain on hold by registrar so cannot be used.

  SERVER_HOLD

  Domain on hold by registry so cannot be used.

  CLIENT_RENEW_PROHIBITED

  Domain locked by registrar and cannot be renewed.

  SERVER_RENEW_PROHIBITED

  Domain locked by registry and cannot be renewed.

  CLIENT_TRANSFER_PROHBITED

  Domain transfer locked by registrar.

  SERVER_TRANSFER_PROHBITED

  Domain transfer locked by registry.

  CLIENT_UPDATE_PROHIBITED

  Domain locked by registrar to prevent any kind of changes in settings.

  SERVER_UPDATE_PROHIBITED

  Domain locked by registry to prevent any kind of changes in settings.

  INACTIVE

  Name servers of domain either not added or there is some issue with name servers, so that domain cannot be used.

  OK

  Active domain, can be used to host the website, create email ids or register name servers.

  PENDING_DELETE

  The domain is about to be deleted by central registry.

  PENDING_TRANSFER

  The domain is in process to be transferred from one registrar to another and no changes possible meanwhile.

  PENDING_VERIFICATION

  The registry is in progress to make the domain records.

  Domain life-cycle explanation

• Date	Event	Status
  1/1/2015	Domain registered	ACTIVE
  1/4/2015	Domain can be transferred if desired	ACTIVE
  1/11/2015	Domain renewal notification sending process starts	ACTIVE
  1/1/2016	Domain expired but not deleted yet by the registrar and can be restored without extra cost	REGISTRAR_HOLD
  9/2/2016	After 40 days, domain is deleted by most registrars but can be restored at high cost	ACREDEMPTION PERIODTIVE
  10/3/2016	After 30 days, domain cannot be restored and registry will soon drop the domain to be booked again	PENDING_DELETE
  15/3/2016	After another 5 days domain is dropped from central registry	NONE

  The most effective way to keep your domain active for long is to maintain alarm to remind yourself about the renewal date. Another process can be to renew the domain for a longer period if you are economically able.

• Also Read: Understand Domain Name Life Cycle In an Easy Way

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This is one of the first steps to be followed while setting up a new business of any type. A name is necessary for every business for a proper recognition and it is necessary for the name to be unique. So, here comes the need of a domain name.

Thinking of a person a parent always tries to name its child beautifully which is modern, ritual, easy to call and of course must be meaningful.

Similar is the requirement in a business too where the owner is like a parent and business is a child. Nourish the child first and then the child will nourish you.

Now, the main trouble is to choose a good name and in the process you need to follow the steps as mentioned in this article.

• Easy to type

Lengthy and complex spelled domain name is not good. This type of name may develop trouble to remember and type the domain name and hence people may not reach you even if your services are best. Choose a name, which can be easily remembered, and types by the visitors.

• Short and meaningful

Keep the domain name as small as possible. This will serve the need of easy remembrance than the lengthy domains.

But make sure to select a name which bear some meaning in it and the meaning must reflect your business nature.

• Choose keyword/s describing your business

Do not use keyword “fruity” for your business of clothes. Let the keywords explain your working and direct the audience to the products you provide.

• Choose a name so people may search with your local business name

If you own a shop in your locality and the shop is famous then choose the same name for your domain. People will of course search for your local name and hence your online presence will be made successful without any additional efforts.

We may understand it like this: Say you own a jewelry shop with a name Sarv Jewels and now you want to make your online presence too. So, choosing a name like jeweler.com will be a big mistake. Choose the name sarvjewelers.com and you will rock.

• Avoid using numbers, punctuations

For example you choose a name waytosms but those who want to visit your website through verbal reference may also search you using way2sms

Here you will suffer. So, it’s better to avoid use of numbers or punctuations in your domain. If it is necessary for you to use the numbers and punctuations then its better to register all possible combinations and redirect them to the main website.

• Catchy and memorable name

Make your domain attractive, easy to remember and with an eye catching effect. This will require some research. Once you are done making a list of good domain names then rotate it among your company management, friends, family and let them rate the domain which is the most appealing and bear some sense in it.

• Make it unique

Select a domain name that does not appear similar to any other running domain. This will avoid confusion and make your domain unique.

• Use a proper TLD

TLD can be defined as the suffix used at the end of the domain name like .com, .net etc.

There are a lot of TLD6 present meant for different geographical area, work nature etc. So, choose the one that suits your work best.

.COM: Commercial

Most popular one basically made fore the non-profit organizations but is used by almost every business including profit, non-profit, educational, individuals.

.ORG: Organization

.NET: Network

.GOV: Government agencies

.IN: India

.biz: Business

.INFO: Information

So, better know your business and choose the tld which best defines your business.

• Buy all possible combinations of your domain (even the misspelled ones)

Say you want to register a domain fastfive then you should better register all possible combinations including the misspellings like fast5 or fastfaive etc.

• Book the domain for longest possible validity

Domain is a long-term investment and it will present your business till your business exists. So, choose the longest possible validity for your business and choose a vendor, which keeps you updated about the domain expiry. You may choose the vendors like godaddy, resellerclub, and sarv.

• Make a quick decision to avoid confusion among a long list

Create a list of selected domain name and circulate among your friends, family, management to find the best one and finalize the same. No need to keep discussing about the domain for many days, as this will only increases the confusion.

• Register the TLDs including .in, .co.in, .co etc.

Along with .com you may register .in, .biz as your work nature demands. Booking multiple tlds will avoid the trouble of someone else grabbing same domain name with a different tld. This may harm your business by distracting the traffic. So be intelligent while making the decision.

• Let the TLD match your business nature

  • .ORG: Organization

  • .NET: Network

  • .GOV: Government agencies

  • .IN: India

  • .biz: Business

  • .INFO: Information

• Register the long and short form both.

If your business name is long and it make a acronym then book the long a short forms both and redirect both on a single website. This will help you not lose the traffic.

Read More: Understand Domain Name Life Cycle In an Easy Way

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Domain suffix represents the type of particular website. For example .com is for commercial purpose. Domain registration is very cheaper now a days and it’s a best and necessary way to make an online presence.

There should not be any restriction to access any domain regionally. If there is any, then one must know the reason and get the solution ASAP.

Who need Domain?

There is no restriction on who may need the domain but all those who want to make an online presence may buy the domain and make it live. This may include an individual, organization (public or private), small business including shops, factories etc.

Domain is very helpful for every organization to make unique identity in industry. If you have your own registered domain, it shows that how professional you are towards your business. A domain spread your brand name in the online world through the website.

Why we need Domain

• Domain makes an online unique identity for any organization.
• It also helps you to grow your business very professionally.
• It should be unique so to avoid the copyrights issue and increase the brand value.
• If your Domain is similar to your company name, will help you more to increase the brand value in market.
• If you are using a genuine Domain or official mail id’s to communicate with your clients, it adds more trust towards to you.
• Domain also helps you to grow online ranking in search engine.

How to choose the right domain

Domain name includes business name, which then is made live by making an online business as discussed earlier. When we are going to select any domain, make sure it includes your company/business name and select the category of domain as per business scale. If it’s a commercial, one can select .com and if it’s only for India business then preference will be .in domain. If once you have done with registration of any domain then no one can use your domain name.

How to choose a good vendor

If you are good at your place in terms of your quality of services, than you need to choose a good vendor to avoid any kind of issues related to support, connectivity, technicality etc. Always check the tenure of your vendor in this industry when you are selecting. Try to check what kind of brand value it has in market with the help of existing clients or customers. If vendor maintain the quality of services and provide good technical assistance for any issue then we can approach for the same.

Associated services with Domain

Domain is interconnected with multiple services for business, or we can say, to use any good Internet based services you require a domain. If you want to make an online presence via a website then you need a domain first to host your website, make your live presence on Internet with own brand name.

Domain itself generate the mandatory need of services like:

-Domain Registration

-Domain Transfer

-Domain reseller

-Web domain hosting

In Domain there should be division in sub domain. For example abc@sarv.com is main domain, thus blog.sarv.com is a sub domain of Sarv.com. A domain should always be easy to remember and easy to type. In order to make the domain live a hosting provider/service is necessary.

Domain Providers

In India or worldwide we have a lot of domain providers, who deal with domain based services. All domain services operate on different servers. There are some familiar names in domain industry as providers like Sarv.com, godaddy.com, bigrock.com, net4.in, domainindia.org etc.

How one can select Domain TLD category for your business

Domain selection matters a lot for brand image. It completely depends on type of your business profile. As we discussed that there are multiple category of Domain .com, .net, .in etc.

On the time of selection check that how helpful will it be for your website Google ranking. Domain plays a very big role in Google ranking.

.COM Domains

Your first choice should be .com before any other extension. This stands for commercial. This domain ranks easily & quickly in search engine. You should choose .com domain if there is availability.

.NET Domains

.NET extension stands for “Network”. Networking & Internet service provider companies mainly use this extension. This is not easy to rank a .net domain; you will need some time & more quality back-links.

.ORG Domains

.ORG is associated with non- profit organization. There are no needs for registration & anyone can register .org domain. .org ranks quickly & easily like .com extension.

.INFO Domains

This stands for “informational” domain & uses for sharing information. This is very difficult to rank this TLD.

Renewal of Domain

Domain registration will be for a time limit. We need to renew the domain after it get expire. You need to pay again the renewal charges for the same domain to continue with the domain services. If the business is set and domain is final then it will be wise to renew the domain for 10 years at once. This will release you from the headache of domain renewal every year and the risk of losing it if not renewed on time.

Sometimes, losing a domain costs a lot in business, as it will then probably be booked or renewed by someone else.

Domain web hosting

You can host your domain over the Internet, make a website and upload it on an online space called hosting. Through the website one may easily explain the work of a company, products scope etc. Explain your business in every bit so to increase the number of pages, but with valuable content. Good content with most searched keywords will surely help increase the indexing of a website in the search engine.

Domain Includes online account management

Provider offers you account management services to easily manage your domain name. And you can make changes in your domain plans as per your requirement.

Virtual Email ID’s based on Domain

If you have a register domain then you can make virtual mail id’s to communicate with your clients. For example abc@sarv.com is virtual mail id based on Sarv.com domain.

Re-buy registered domain

It is also possible to change the owner name of any register domain with new owner name, if previous owner allows. If you need a particular domain name and it is already registered by in other owner bucket then you can put a request to him to get the domain on extra cost. Cost should be depends on brand name.

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