How to start with domain names?

How to buy a domain name for your business?

When you wish to choose a domain name for you online presence, you have to do some brain storming process to find a catchy short memorable and sexy name for your business. How ever you have to register as soon as possible as you find them. Reason is domain registration has an international competition and it is registered on first come fist serve basis. you have a five days grace period to delete the unwanted domain names. This is called AGP , available for a small fee.

How to finalize domain selection?

Once you registered a few domains, once again start to do some brain storming to have a catchy domain for your business. Register for multiple years Generally five plus. If you are going to start a real business.

Do i register more domains so that i sell in future ?

yes, you can do it. As domain names are considered to be only hot property of the world that multiplies several times with in few years. But you have to take care that it cannot bite your fingers, what do i mean is you must be able to keep the domains until it sells even ten plus years. So take care that not to lose your hard earned money.

How to register a domain name?

You have to create an account with an ICANN accredited Registrar or a domain reseller of accredited registrar. Then you can register domains for a small fee. The fee Ranges for $ 6.99 to $ 34.55, that depends on the registrar.

Is there any additional cost incurred in domain registration ?

few domain registrars will collect the ICANN fee separately. usually 20 cents. But most of the registrars as well as resellers pay that from registration fee itself.

Is there any other value added services to domain names ?

Yes, there are few free services and few paid services. Free services generally offered are privacy protection, domain locking, changing name servers ETC.Paid services like Manage DNS, Manage mail, additional Name servers ETC.