Know the basics of domain registration.

In the year 2000, I registered my first domain. Before registering, I read several guides that taught me how to register a domain starting with the name selection. I have learnt a lot from these guides and I share with you a few salient points here.

The name of the domain should be as short as possible and it should indicate what the website is about.

Next, it should be registered for at least three years if the purpose of the website is going to be business as this will instill confidence among the buyers of your product or service. Yes, this made a lot of sense to me.

Next point to consider was the selection of a domain registrar. A domain registrar should have acquired an accreditation from authentic organization. Also you much check to see if they off domain forwarding service and managed DNS service.

The final important aspect is to lock the domain so that it is protected from unauthorized domain transfer.

I hope these valuable guidelines for domain registration are useful to you also.

The most profitable domains.

I completely agree with Marcin-we rarely get the domain we want for our niche blog or website. We use all our creativity(?) to come up with a short and sweet domain that is very apt to the niche.

But when try to register it, we learn that it is already taken.

Here is a nice tool to search for keyword rich domain that is mentioned in that blog. Using that tool, I got the data below.

Keyword	Price ($)	Wordtracker	Trends
garden fountains	2.03	wordtracker	trends
cement garden fountains	0.88	wordtracker	trends
spanish garden fountains	0.71	wordtracker	trends
garden fountain	1.45	wordtracker	trends
solar garden fountain	1.38	wordtracker	trends

Marcin then gives a nice tutorial on how to proceed further with the results.

This is the second of results when I refreshed that page:

Keyword	Price ($)	Wordtracker	Trends
vtech cordless phones	1.86	wordtracker	trends
vtech cordless phone	1.99	wordtracker	trends
vtech cordless phone headset	2.82	wordtracker	trends
vtech cordless phone batteries	3.27	wordtracker	trends
vtech cordless phone i5871	1.79	wordtracker	trends

Thank you Marcin.