The domain name is important for a website. You need to know about some considerations while domain registration.
1. Check availability
Before going to choose a domain, the first step is checking the availability. You need to check the availability of a particular domain name that you are consider suitable for your business. Go to domain name registrars. Most registers having the function like availability checker.
2. Choose a domain name registrar
Once you are sure the domain name you are looking for is available, you should go for registering the domain name. Make sure to choose a domain name registrar having credentials form the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
3. Determine how long you would register for
You need to decide about the registration time length. Generally, it starts from one year and you can extend the time in increments a year each up to 10 years.
There are a number of cases where websites are hijacked by untrustworthy individuals. Unscrupulous elements buy expired domain names that their owners do not remember to renew their registrations. They will sell them back to the owners for high price.
4. Choose extra options
Most of the companies will provide extra services which includes domain privacy. One thing to remember is to enable domain privacy via the registrar’s control panel for every domain name which you register to prevent spam mail from being sent to your email addresses and to prevent your personal details from being publicly accessible. Spam bots keep on searching for unprotected domains to send unsolicited spam mail.
5. Pay registration fee
After selecting the domain name which is suitable for your business you need to select the registration length, then only you can pay the appropriate registration fee. You should know about price for different time periods. By seeing that you can select which offer is beneficial for you.
6. Transfer to name servers
Once you close up to the five things, you can successfully register your domain name. One more thing is to update your website’s name servers so that other computers on the Internet can find your website easily.
A name server is a web server with DNS software managed by a web hosting service provider. The server is designed for managing domain names that are connected with the service provider.
Your web host will usually send you an email with the instructions to transfer your domain name from the registrar to the web host. Then it is hosted with them.
If you follow these steps, it is easy to register a domain name.
