So many people, myself included, worry about what they should register as their domain name. Concerns include (but not limited to): How long should it be? What are my keywords? Should it be .com, .net or .co.uk? etc.
My advice is this:
It does not matter if it is a .com or not, most likely all the good ones are gone anyways. Think about the audience you are trying to attract - are they location specific? If so, a .co.uk will work fine if they are based in the UK. If you cannot get a .com, then .net will do just as well.
BEFORE you start building your website, you should register your domain name. It is a simple cheat to ensure Google knows about your domain name, and so will keep looking back to see if you have launched or not. This will also give you extra brownie points when you do launch your site, as google favours domain names that have been around for longer than brand new ones. This will also ensure someone else doesn’t buy it before you do!
Try and get your main keyword in your domain name. This will make it easier for people to find you in Google. I could have gone for something like money-making-secrets.com, to ensure top listings, but I decided not to because it would of made my site sound like every other greedy git out there trying to sell you something.
Very often, if you can’t get the domain name you want, the domain name registrar will suggest alternate forms of the name you typed. For example, if you wanted website.com, and it was taken (of course it is), it might suggest forms like: thewebsite.com, mywebsite.com, websites.com - and the like, if they were not already taken as well. The question is, should you take them?
I hope this helps you out a little more. For domain names and hosting, I suggest 1&1 Internet, purely for the fact that I use them (this site is hosted there), they are very reliable, and more importantly their 1&1 Business package comes with 3 free domain names - which means you can buy one domain name as the ‘main one’, and then have two left over for marketing (two different domains with two different sets of keywords in them) - or you could just use the other two to launch some more websites on the same hosting… the choice is yours!
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