Domain Name
Your domain name is unique to you, a human-friendly address created to directly take you to your space on the Internet where they can view your website
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Steps To Take When You Register a New Domain Name
Choosing a domain name is one of the most crucial parts in building your brand or business. Making a wrong choice can hurt your brand or business, or even promote your competitors. Carefully chosen name makes it stand out, builds brand or business name, drives web traffic.
The very first registered domain name was symbolics.com, registered on 15th of March 1985 by a computer manufacturer.
According to the Verisign statics, there are around 363.5 million domain names as of close with Q1 2021. The .com and .net domain names had a combined total of 168.0 millions.
With more than 1,500 domain name extensions in existence, you should have no problem finding your perfect web address, with whichever extension you prefer.
Fellatech can register your domain name on your behalf, protect your details on the Internet from spammers and configure all necessary redirections to have your website, eMail, and other Internet services work flawlessly. The domain name renewal is part of the service so you do not get in position that your website, email, or other Internet services do not cease working when domain name expires. The ID Shield, domain name protection, and website certificates are part of the domain registration process, free of any addition charges.
Keep it short, 2-3 words
Easy to remember and spell correctly
Keywords that include what you do or offer
Should reflect your brand or business name
Do not use any existing brand names or trademarks
Should be the same as your brand name, or as close to it as possible
An average domain name is better than no domain name
.com extensions are more common, used worldwide
.eu, .ie, .uk country extension focus on a specific location
Avoid numbers and hyphens, misspelling or word that can be spelled different ways
Do I Need a Website If I have a Facebook Page?
With all the social media hype, Facebook Business page is a common solution for many businesses as their main source of online advertisement. And there is nothing wrong with it, or any other social media – Actually, it became a must for any business presence.
However, your brand or business cannot prosper of a Facebook Business page alone, you need own Website as a backbone of your business’ online presence. Facebook always has the Control, and you are left with a choice to either accept it or leave it. Facebook is a constant competition with many business like yours too and with ads being thrown into their newsfeed. Use the social media to support your Website, not to replace it!
Your Website is an important part of your marketing strategy, together with your business eMail presence. Do you purchase from a company but could not find a Website for them? If a business does not have a website, are they even credible? Would you see them as a potential scam? How do other people see your business without a Website and its associated eMail address?
FACTS
Did You Know
Many people naturally typing a web address into their browser will add .com as the extension if they don’t know what it is. Most web browsers will also automatically check the .com domain first if you don’t type one in.
Would it affect your business if someone opened a similar online business to yours with a similar target audience, and registered the same domain in a .com? Would you lose out on traffic to this other website? The answers are yes.
If you are an Irish based company and your target market is in Ireland you should, where possible, build your website on your .ie domain and forward your .com domain to it.
If you would like to trade with other countries, now or in the future, you should consider securing .eu for Europe and/or country specific extensions such as .fr for France.
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