Things to consider when i buy a new domain name ?

Most of the domain buyers may know very well that it is very very difficult to find a never registered domain name. mainly top level domain names. What i mean is most of the domains we register were already registered by some one else and used for their business for a specific time, and then left out either because of disinterest, forgot renewal or unable to build business. Such domains have a development record at archive.org. So you have to check and make some research on domains to choose a perfect domain for your business

Here are few tips you have to consider.

Keyword Research

Your domain name must have a keyword related to your business, for eg if you have interest to do some business related to "Domain Name" then you have to search for strong keywords that pull some organic traffic

domain registration
domain reseller
domain hosting
domain brokers
domain brokerage
we buy domains
we sell domains
domain auctions
domain aftersellers
domain forums
domain reviews
domain blogs

these are few domain names which has a keyword "Domain" as a part of the domain name, such domains are called as generic domains

Brandability

If you wish to have a brandable domain which can be made as a business trade mark in future, short abbreviations, acronyms etc. such domains are short sexy and memorable, the only problem is you can't find what their business is, from the domain name itself, brandable domains needs more funds to advertise and build your business

Checking the previous usage of domain

If you are serious in building your online business community, then you have to check with archive.org to check the previous usage of the domain name, some domains may be used as porn, adult sites, hardcore, spam with hundreds of in door pages, some domains needs a lot of work and money to vanish the old useless traffic and links etc. Few domain sellers also ban the archive bot to crawl their site, so you have to check the domain in all possible ways, back link check etc to find the past usage of domain name.

Don't choose hyphen domains mostly

domains with hyphen are generally used to spam in olden days, however if you got a valuable keyword you can register it. possibly avoid multiple hyphens like this "Sell- your-Names-at-Domain-name-broker-site.com" avoid more than one hyphen domains. more hyphens means blackness in your domain, so snow white domains didn't have hyphens

Length of Domain Name

Short domain names are much preferred and best compared to longer domains. short domains have a good type in traffic rather than longer ones, have your character length below 14, avoid domains with character length more than 21.

Buy top level domains only.

If you wish to build or resell your domain property you have to choose top level domains only for Eg

selldomain.com,
selldomain.net,
selldomain.org,
selldomain.info rather than selldomain.biz, selldomain.name etc

Check usage of TLD when you buy other extensions

If you got a Great keyword domain for your online business either in .ca / .de / .fr extensions then you have to check mainly for the usage of .com domains, as most of us use " CTRl + Enter " after we type the domain name. If you use such domains for your business, your reputation and good will gets spoiled if the .com version of that particular keyword is used for adult related or spam type or spy ware hidden. even you type the domain name fully with extension in your business card / emails / on your car or bike, it wont work out as most of us didn't consider extension, I.e if you say your domain they will automatically mean that the extension is .com. Therefore make a clear check when you go for an alternative domain extension

Check for variations and misspellings

People of different countries spell certain word in a different way For Eg
Website Optimization at US
Website Optimisation at UK
similarly comfort Vs komfort, contact Vs kontact, etc
you can register multiple variations if your are able to bear additional domain registration fee as well a domain renewal fee
misspellings like
whisky instead of whiskey,
lollypop instead of lollipop,
domian instead of domain
such domains will get some type in traffic which you can redirect to your main website

Back Links

you have to check for the source of the links, whether from directories, search engine, news group, forum signatures, blog reviews, articles sites, social media etc you can acquire domains with such useful links, these are called as white links, If the domain has links from link farms, spam links, links from black listed sites - hate links, links from suspicious websites. then the traffic from such links is useless and you have to spend more for search engine optimization as you have to build more positive links for your site to create a positive view on your site.

Search Engine Indexed pages

you have to check for search engine indexed page, it is a luck if you find pages with page rank, you can immediately create a new page with some advertisement on such pages when you procure such domains, more indexed pages means more you can trust. Website build on such domains will spread its business at a faster rate.

Trade mark issues

Few domains available for sale are trade mark domains and may have some legal issues also, domain seller just want to get rid of them, they don't want to deal with such issues. You have to make a quick search on database of US trademarks, to find whether such domain name may get any problem in future, It is not at all necessary for you to lose your domain with lot of efforts and money to a trade mark holder. If you wish to bear such risks, it is up to you

Funny domains

Please take care when you spell your domains i have a domain "lacquerspray.com"
it mean lacquer spray (or) lacquers pray
similarly the world renowned example for such domain is "pen island" funnily spelled as - penis land-
another one is expertsexchange.com
Take care to build your website on a perfect domain name, as you venture time and money on that domain name.you have to make multiple check on domains, if you buy domains at aftermarkets rather than just register them from a domain registrar only two word phrases results in such double entendres,

singular and plural

Register both singular and plural versions of the domain name like
selldomain.com, selldomains.com
domainauction.com , domainauctions.com
buydomain.com, buydomains.com
domainbroker.com, domainbrokers.com
This will be safer idea for your business in future
Few domain buyers will register other extensions like .net, org, so as to avoid spammers and cyber squatters

It is best to avoid domains with numbers except few situations like 360, 247 etc at end
confusing numbers is to be avoided, 2, four etc
Eg, selldomainsforu.com as selldomains4u.com
tosellmydomains.com as 2sellmydomains.com
such confusions will lead your site visitors to land on some other pages