Choosing a domain name if one of the most important tasks you will do when creating an online business and much consideration is required. This is a task that can only be done once and you cannot change your domain name later on down the line. Your domain name will brand the product or service that you offer and will separate you from your competition. It is the address your customers will use whenever they want something from you.

There are three areas to consider when selecting your domain name. These are Simplicity, Branding and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Firstly simplicity. If possible you should try to adopt a catchy name that is easy to remember. That way the next time a former browser of you site requires a product or service that you can offer, your site name will be embedded in the back of their mind. You will generate a lot of traffic from users remembering the name of your site. Secondly when creating any new product or service, ideally you w... Read more »

When selecting a domain name there are a lot of things to consider, firstly it needs to either reflect the company brand name that you which are known for or intend to develop or alternatively tells people what your website is about with keywords included.

It is also important that the name is memorable and one that people are not going to make mistakes on, a good test of this before you go ahead is to verbally tell a few people the name and ask them to write it down, if any of them make an error with the spelling you might want to consider an easier name. Do the opposite too, write the name down by hand and ask people to read it, if they mistake a "5" for an "S" for example because it is not obvious from the domain name which it should be then think again.

Try and keep the name you choose short, longer names are harder to remember, and again easier to make mistakes with or type incorrectly. If you really want a particular domain name, but you know that ... Read more »

If you have a lot of domain names just sitting there getting renewed every year, why not make some free cash from them.

Just set them up in Google AdSense and Google will fill your domains page with adverts, when someone clicks on an ad, you get paid, for doing nothing.

Just go to Google AdSense setup and click on AdSense for Domains, this will take you to where you can add new domains.

Click on Add new Domains and there is a box to the right where you can add any unused domains you might have in a list, just copy and paste them in then select your language and click the "Add Domains" button.

When you have done this you are taken to the next page where you have to do a little editing at your domain registrar, see below.

If you have registered your domains with Go daddy or Enom, there are others too, Google will give you step by step instructions on how to set your domain names up correctly with these registrars.

If you have a lot ... Read more »