• Section: Increase Traffic - Category: Domain Name
• Written by Dee Buteland

When the time comes to get a web domain name for a new hobby site or online business, or just to secure your own name as a dot com, the steps are very straightforward.

To begin with, think of the domain name you want. Most of the majority of the domain registration services, like Godaddy, offer various tools which will help here. You type in any domain, and they will reveal if the domain name is registered already or not. If it is still free, you can register it. If it is already owned by another person, then the registration service will offer you varieties of the domain name to consider, or you could try other suffixes, like .biz or .org.

Though .com domains are still the most familiar and most common, the daily hits you will get to your new domain will be due to your search engine optimization abilities and will have little to do with the suffix, so don't be to worried if you don't get the .com suffix of the domain you want.

Assuming you have

thought of the internet domain name you like, and it is not already owned by somebody else, what exactly do you do now?

Having used a site like Godaddy, and having performed the search for your name and checked that it is unregistered, you will then click on a 'Proceed to Checkout' button or something like it.

Next you will select the number of years you want to register the domain for

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