Many times I've found myself struggling to find the perfect name
for a new site idea that I've been putting. Variation after
variation leads me to realize that it may just be impossible to get
a short and straight forward name with a dot com ending because
someone has already beaten me to it. Registration sites love to
offer you all of the alternative names that they have available,
but when it comes down to it, adding a number of more unnecessary
characters to the url can be more harm then it's worth. But as the
web is expanding, more domain options have come to light and are
readily available for purchase. But just like dot com and even dot
net, if you don't act on it fast, you'll lose your shot at it.
In the days when www was required, any site with a domain other
than dot com often found themselves ignored by websurfers. Today,
all that matters his how specific to your keywords the domain name
is so that you can take advantage of that for search engine
optimization. So these new domains actually have a fair amount of
strength in comparison to abandoning your desired site name to
simply have a dot com.
My most recent project actually lead me to a series of dot ws
domains. All of the sites I came across has really high quality
names and had excellent designs as well so I figured learning more
about dot ws would be worthwhile. It turns out that dot ws refers
to website and those unique designs I had come across were actually
templates. What really caught my interest was that the services
they offered didn't end there either!
Pulling up the products page on website.ws, the main distribution
site for all dot ws domains, I was startled to find the plethora of
options that they provided to their customers. Dot ws domains all
appeared to include completely free hosting services, free ftp
services, free url forwarding, free e-mail accounts, free
SiteBuilder design, and even free technical support. I laughed as I
searched for the price for all of these services as several of the
hosting services I was considering using for my dot com site didn't
even provide me with free e-mail addresses but as I stumbled upon
the price I had to do a double take.
Somehow,
website.ws has managed to offer all of these
services for $10 a month, including the domain name. The lowest I
could even find to compete with everything they could offer would
have cost me $110 a year and that's without tools such as
SiteBuilder! So for $10 more I wouldn't have to compromise with the
name just to get an unfriendly dot com provider with no design help
at all. If I would have purchased a dot com and hosted it myself,
it would still most likely show an empty page as I am personally
not the best designer and I don't currently have one that I go to.
But with a dot ws domain, I would easily be able to get a fully
function site up and host on the same day that I purchased it and
set it up.
If you're a tech savvy individual and have somehow lucked out and
landed a dot com domain name that actually identifies your site
properly, you'll probably want to pass on dot ws at this point. But
for everyone else, or for those who are just too tired of waiting
for their site to get finished by an out sourced designer or are
sick of having to deal with separate DNS and domain registration
companies, you'll find this solution a lot simpler. Personally, the
ability it gives me to grow with it and bring the domain with me as
I expand my hosting knowledge is really welcoming in comparison to
some of the gimmicks I've run across in other non dot coms
before.
What sells your site is the name and the content on it, not the
domain. WWW is being phased out of urls and dot coms are nearly
full. Making the move and getting the name you want is the most
important aspect of site registration that you will encounter.
Date Published: Dec 26, 2010 - 8:36 am
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Date Published: Dec 07, 2010 - 8:36 am