How to register a domain name
An essential part of every website is the domain, thinking of a good name to register and name your website is probably the hardest part of the process, luckily there are many domain name suggestion tools out there online. The domain name generator that i have used the most over the years is Nameboy.com and I have also had success with DomainsBot.com but since they only suggest the domain names that is all I use the website for since they tend to be more expensive than other services online. The steps in registering a domain are listed as follows.
- Choosing the domain name and checking availability, I use namecheap.com to register all my domains as i like their user panel and interface.
- The next process is registering a domain is selecting how many you want to register, if your site becomes popular, people will register similar domains to yours and try and cash in on your sites popularity. Larger sites register every domain that you could think of
- Next step in the process is to choose how many years you want to register the domain for, usually i only register the domain for one yar s if the site doesn’t take of i haven’t wasted any money, you can always renew the domain if does become popular
- When you go to pay for the domain on namecheap.com include the voucher for January 2009 “happy2009″ will entitle you to a domain at the price of $8.81
- Next step is to setup your hosting, you need to get the name servers for your webs host and once you have registered your domain on namecheap there is a link at the side panel to manage the name servers, you need to change these from the default namecheap servers to your own.
That should be your domain will resolve to your web host, it may take a couple of hours for the servers round the world to refresh. I will update this post with some links to cheap domain registrars when i get them
