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It is imperative today for individual persons to own their actual full name domain name for personal profile/ branding purposes. There is more. Today more & more companies are searching on line before hiring a likely candidate.

Whether you’re a aspiring executive, manager or politician or a established CEO, your name ‘Mr. John Q. Not So Public’ is very important. Imagine if a person with the same name as you were to commit a felony or some socially unacceptable act that ended up getting indexed on search engines under your name & then a potential client or recruiting firm Google’s you to see that news/ information come up first! It happens.

Many of my clients both small & large will not even hire a management level candidate prior to Googling that person. Depending on what’s found or not found will go along way to their hiring decision.

I was recently amazed at how many fortune 500 CEO’s & executives did not own their domain names or even ascribed much importance to this. Right. Well I can tell you the time of ignorance is coming to a end.

If you’re Googled & you own your domain & actually have something there you’ll always come up first.

Whether you’re an aspiring executive or a CEO on the verge of retirement your on line profile will be there long after you.

For under $10.00 please take the 10 minutes to register ® your name (especially the .com) & any other important names to you.

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Jason Redekopp
Founder & CEO
JasonRedekopp.com
Personal Online Branding Services

The location of a web site on the internet is just like the postal address of a place on the face of this earth. If you want to locate a house, you’ll need to know its address. If you know the address you can find that place. Same is the case with the web sites which exist on the internet. These web sites have their own numeric address. As it’s very hard for people to remember the numeric addresses, the scientists have converted the numeric addresses into the words & alphabets which people can recognize & remember. These names of the web sites are called as domain names. Domain names are very important. If a web site has a domain name which is easily memorized by people, the chances of getting more web visits will be higher. On the other hand if a website’s domain name isn’t attractive enough, it may fail to attract the attention of the internet surfers. As there is a lot of competition in the on line world, every small detail may have the potential of giving you an edge over the competitors. Keeping this in mind you must pay all due attention towards the domain name of your web site.

If you want to get a proper domain name for your web site, you really need to use your own creative abilities for this purpose. First of all, you really need to find some good domain names. There is more. These names need to be attractive enough & still easily memorable. It’s important that these names should be related to the nature of business you want to carry out. OK. Select some appealing name & get it registered.

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Are you good at remembering numbers? If you are, how many sequences of numbers do you think you can remember? The answer to this question will tell you the importance of domain names. There is more. The language of a computer is basically in numbers. It’s not possible for a person to remember the long sequences of numbers very easily.

Even if some of the people can do it, still, the others cannot. To resolve this problem the machine language is converted into readable language so that people can read the language they already know. The web sites content appears to us as written in English or any other language. If you take a look at the machine language, it will be all numbers. Same is the case with the domain names. If these names were there in the form of numbers only, it will not actually be possible for us to find all the useful information through the World Wide Web. This is the reason that the domain names came into being.

The domain name is the name of a web site. The URLs are in digits & numbers & people can not remember them very easily. To avoid this problem, domain names are used. A domain name can assist you in making a lot of money through a web site. If you want to have a really impressive domain name which will often help you in making money online, you really need to be really innovative.

You must use a domain name which is related to the nature of work you’re carrying out on your website. Make it easier for people to remember & this will also give your website a higher page ranking. Be creative, & promote your web site properly. The domain name will often help you in getting more visitors, & as a result will often help you in making money online.

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When one talks about domain names, one could not help but wonder what these domain names are all about. While people’s cognizance about domain names is very minimal & small, it’s practically useful to let people who own a site that they have knowledge about domain naming. This is so, because domain names, just like your site contents & design, play a significant role in pushing the traffic on your site. Therefore, it’s important that as a site owner, you select the perfect domain name for your site. The qualities of a good domain name may vary from one site owner to the other, but generally, the written things below help identify the good qualities of a domain name.

? A good domain name should not portray complexity on it in terms of wordings. The more simple words that you employ on your domain name the better because it fosters easy remembrance of the name. The easier the domain name to be remembered that more chances it gets to be visited.

? A good domain name is something that is shorter. A shorter domain name is a good domain name because it becomes easier to be indexed by the search engines & is easily captured by the search terms used by most net users.

? A good domain name is something that is competitive with the well established domain names. This means that you have the air of being correlated with other established sites but not exactly similar with the established ones.

? A good domain name is a name that contains important keywords on it… Keywords are search engine’s element for ranking. If the domain name spells out good keywords on it, then it’s mot likely going to earn good ranking from search engines, therefore, with net users, too.

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Every business requires some front to promote its products. Right. With the blazing growth of World Wide Web the use of internet as a means of promoting your business is very essential. The first step in this field is to make a global presence, & the best & easiest way to do it’s to make a website. This way your portal is open to the world. Here are six steps to get started with domain names.

First step for getting started is to make a professional website. The website content & all the feel & look of the website should be very professional. The numbers of websites are growing at a tremendous rate & this requires you to make your website stand out.

Second step is to have a domain name that best describes your website. If the website name describes the website or your business then it will look very professional.

Third step for the domain name is to book your domain name early as the names are diminishing at a very fast rate. For this you can contact the hosting services. There is more. There’re numerous hosts providing you with required domain name.

Fourth step for domain name is to take advantage of the websites that offer the domain names that they have already acquired & will sell them to make profit. This way you can get the domain name even if you have missed it at the first time.

Fifth step for domain name is to use a domain name that is straight forward & very obvious. There is more. The person should write the name of the product he is searching for & add www & .com at the end of the service name. It should lead to your website. This way you can generate traffic without much support from the search engines.

Sixth step for domain name is to acquire all the extensions available at present like .com, .org, .in etc. this will often help you in future growth of your company. You can use these names for specific products.

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Because of the high value placed on website domain names there’re a segment of web users that will simply guess your domain name (if there is sufficient buzz about you & your product line). These users simply bypass the search engine in favor of a best guess.

Yet you’ll still find some on line businesses using very long domain names either because they do not know better or because they’re piggybacking off a free website developer. Either way there is a reduced customer confidence in hard to remember domain names.

In some ways it would be like a business calling itself The Furniture Store Just Two Blocks West of the Chicken Place on 14th Avenue & Just East of the Convenience Store on Maple. We would much rather remember the store as Furniture Tech than attempt to remember a name that is 22 words long.

Imagine trying to visit a search engine & coming up with http://www.search.onlinesearch.investments.protocol.com/futures

It is amazing to me how many people will sacrifice a prominent domain name in favor of short-term savings. There is more. The end result is often a struggling business website because the business is buried in a labyrinth of sub domains.

With a variety of choices that allow the purchase of a domain name for less than ten dollars $ a year it does not make sense to simply exist as a tag on to another site. A simple redirect can allow customer to access your site (even if it is in a sub domain environment) through the use of an exclusive domain name that has some web branding punch to it.

One of the other benefits to having your own domain name is that you can then gain access to an email account that uses this specifically branded website name.

Should you select web builder technology you can save money on site development & many will offer a domain name at no additional cost.

It is possible there’re on line businesses that have been in operation for an extended period of time & have never moved from the business environment in which they started. The end result is they may not actually be fully aware there’re simplified & cost-effective ways to come out from the umbrella of a larger domain to a place where there is greater control & visibility.

Even if domain names are not that important to you it’s highly probable your domain name does have an impact on potential consumers. Maybe it is time to research what domain names are available.

Scott Lindsay is a web developer & entrepreneur. He is the founder of HighPowerSites & many other web projects. Get your own website on line in just 5 minutes with HighPowerSites.com at: http://www.highpowersites.com. Start your own ebook business with BooksWealth at: http://www.bookswealth.com

Ever wondered who owns the most internet real estate aka: web addresses or domain names? Well the Internet Real Estate Mogul is a fellow by the name of Kevin Ham. For years, Ham has been snatching up available domain names with value, & adding them to his portfolio of money makers. Kevin makes a very good living purchasing domain names. Since 2000, Ham has acquired over 300,000 domains, which when added to his other business ventures generates over $70 million dollars $ a year for this internet real estate king. And John Chow thinks he’s a dot com mogul.

It’s one thing to own a handful of a big money making sites, but when you own over 300,000 of them, you have quite a bit of control on the internet playing field. Being he’s a devout Christian, Ham has purchased many religion based domains such as God.com, Religion.com & Satan.com. During Ham’s journey to the top, he occasionally left his home in Vancouver to do missionary work in China, Mexico & the Philippines.

By the year 2002, Ham was making approx. $1 million a year & was just warming up. With help from his high school friend & now partner, he made the next few years his most aggressive. This is when he tried out a trick of his called ‘tasting.’ Domain purchasers were given a 5-day trial period on the domains that they purchased. This was intended to let them test the waters with the traffic on the domain for a few days & toss it if they were not satisfied. Mr. Ham used this provision to purchase thousands of domain names & discard all but maybe 100 or so that showed potential. Ham no longer practicing tasting due to the overwhelming number of unreliable domains he was ending up with.

Domain auctions are a big part of Ham’s purchasing strategies. Domainars, venture capitalist & investment bankers all take part in the bidding of various domain names. At these auctions, upwards of $150, 000 or more. Ham has paid $171,250 for HotelDeals.com.

Since the tasting days, Ham has moved on to bigger & better methods. He current searches for typo-squatter domains. Have you ever attempted to enter the URL of one of your favorite sites & mistakenly left out the ‘O’ in the .com? Well, you may have ended up with www.google.cm. It just so happens that .cm belongs to the Republic of Cameroon. Ham began purchasing the popular names with the .cm & had the traffic forward to another one of his sites. There is more. This page contained PPC links that when clicked, would generate cash for guess who? That’s right, Kevin Ham! Ham & his crew are not stopping at .cm. He also has his eyes on (.om) which belongs to Oman & (.co) which belongs to Columbia.

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In the fast paced world of the internet, it can be easy to use certain functions without knowing what they really are. This is particularly true for the suffixes on domains, so let us take a closer look.

The obvious place to start is with the most common suffix which is ‘COM’. It’s operated by Verisign. It’s a catchall suffix that can be often used for just about any site on the web. The NET & INFO suffixes fall under the same guidelines.

The AERO suffix is one few are familiar with. As the suffix suggests, it’s designated for sites in the air transport industry. It’s run by the Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques, better known as SITA. This is an inter-industry suffix & isn’t used by airlines moving the general public.

NeuLevel, Inc. runs the suffix ‘BIZ’. It’s a relatively new suffix. It’s supposed to be used only by sites providing a ‘bona fide business or commercial’ subject matter.

The ‘GOV’ suffix is one that is supposed to be used by government agencies. It’s run by the US General Services Administration. A common subversive tactic on the web is to reserve COM version of government domains. Right. Whitehouse with the COM suffix receives tons of type in traffic, but isn’t the official site of the White House.

The EDU suffix is run by the U.S. Department of Education. It can only be used by an agency on a list of Nationally Recognized Accredited Agencies list maintained by the Department. These are typically education oriented sites such as universities.

The ORG domain suffix is reserved for non-profit entities. It’s operated by the Public Interest Registry. It’s one of the more abused domain suffixes on the web. There’re many sites operating with ORG suffixes that are hardly non-profits.

The MOBI suffix is a recent development. It’s designated for sites that are oriented to mobile computing devices. Most sites will have crossover functions for mobile viewers, so one has to wonder about the point of this suffix.

There are other suffixes out there & it seems more are proposed on a monthly basis. There is more. The simple fact is most of them are not & never will be used. People are conditioned to use the common COM, NET & ORG suffixes, so new suffixes have an uphill battle to receive notoriety.

One area where a new domain suffix may be on the way is in the arena of the adult internet site, to wit, pornography. There is much wrangling these days over a XXX suffix. It has not happened to date, but could in the near future.

At this point in time, it’s wise to always use the COM suffix unless there is a specific reason for your site to use something else. People are simply conditioned to type in COM, so take advantage of it.

Halstatt Pires writes for the free online internet marketing newsletter you can join at http://www.MarketingTitan.com

All right, so you’re creating your own website & you really need to pick a domain name. How to you pick a good domain name? Does it even matter what your domain name is? Will you select a .com, .net, .org, .biz? Which one best suits you & your business?

How do other businesses select a good domain name? Why do some domain names become so easily memorable while others just seem to not actually be there at all? What makes a domain name memorable?

Why Does A Good Domain Name Matter?

It is vital to your website & business to have a good domain name. Having a good domain name is just as important as your business name, logo, & possibly even more important. First you have the choice of the actual domain name, such as Yahoo, Google, or eBay, for example. Even though these domain names do not seem to match the websites or businesses in any way, they work because of brand name. If you tell people to go look something up on Google they know to type in http://www.google.com or to simply type Google into their favorite search engine. People know Google is a great search engine. It has become a household name because of their choice of the domain name, & successful advertising & promotional campaigns.

Your domain name needs to match your business well. You can select a simple name that immediately lets people know what the website will be about before they even get there, such as Wikipedia. Since it sounds like encyclopaedia, people assume it’s just that before they even get to the website, & it is.

You also have the choice of creating or making up your own name. It could be anything, & doesn’t have to be a real word. However - as a general on line business rule, your domain name should be the same as your business name.

Sometimes it’s best to search available domain names on a web hosting website so you can see what’s out there that is up for the taking. Do you follow? Think about whether you want your website domain name to end with a .com, .net, & the other many available endings.

Secrets Of A Catchy Domain Name ?

Your domain name has to be catchy. People need to be easily able to remember it, pronounce it & write it with ease. The shorter your domain name, the better… People will have a hard time remembering longer domain names. Yahoo is easy to remember. It has only five letters in it… It’s like yelling Yahoo!. That’s why people remember it so easily.

Catchy domain names are straight forward, to the point & short. OK. Some are humorous. Some remind people of something else. Some are controversial. Some are just plain silly & make people laugh, but they remember it.

The more catchy your domain name is the more likely it’s that you’ll have more website visitors. There is more. Think carefully about what you want for your domain name before you select it.

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Publishing pro & author/filmmaker Barry Sheppard has written & published many books with hundreds of reviews in newspapers, TV & radio. He is now concentrating on eBook writing/publishing & starting his own television station. He is also reducing his Domain Names Collection. http://www.domainnamempire.com

Whatever business it’s that you intend to start, it’s very important to have a presence on the Internet. Just having a presence isn’t sufficient; you should select the best domain name as this plays a vital part in the success of your business.

To get an idea of the best domain name for your business, consider the present URLs of most websites. There is more. They usually have these points in common; they give the reader an idea of the content of the website, & the number of characters used in the name is limited. So keep these two points in mind when choosing the perfect domain name for your website.

Most of the best domain names give the potential visitor an idea of what the website is about, without actually clicking on the link. By example, icici. Almost virtually everyone knows that icici is a bank, & a URL with these letters symbolize that the present site is associated with icici. This is the effect the domain name should cultivate.

When a visitor visits a site, the site with a domain name that has relevance to the product of the website gets more visits. On visiting a site for sports articles, & a visitor has a choice between ’sportsworld.com’ & ‘mynameisjohn.com’; it’s more than likely that the first website will be clicked on. This is because the first name gives a better interpretation of what the website is about, & thus saves time in finding the required site.

It is very important to make your domain name short & sweet. This is because shorter domain names call for less typing of the surfers & lesser recall for remembering the location of the site. However it’s not that easy to acquire a short domain name as most of the short domain names have already been taken. So you’ll need to do some thinking & use some ideas to create a domain name that is short & sweet, & associated with your content. You may even have to spend some time getting the right name, how ever, it pays off in the long run.

It is better if you can come up with a domain name that is ‘catchy’ or ‘cute’. This may take some time & effort, but it will help lock your site’s location in the minds of the potential customer. This is a trick all advertisers too have been employing in their television, radio & billboard ads for a long time to come. So a good domain name creates the same effect as it does in an ad jingle; it remains in your head for some time. So if you can think of a domain name that is catchy, short & cute; while pointing to your content, then you would have got the best of both the worlds! And with a catchy domain name, you’ll get customers who can never seem to get your dot com out of their head unlike other sites, where they seem to forget the name of the site.

So do not ignore the importance that lies in choosing the right domain name for your website as it’s an important step in your business building plan. The domain name may not give the difference between failure & success, but it sure promises money in the bank.

James Henderson is a writer for the http://www.HelpMeNetwork.com website. Read more of his work & other writers at http://HelpMeNetwork.com