Domain Name Guideline.

Investing in a quality Generic Domain Name is the most effective and long term Marketing Strategy your can start to implement from day one.

Unless Of course you want your website to be relegated to the bottomless pit of the web by the search engine databases and directories and end up spending a few hundred or thousands of dollars trying to get out.

Now we don’t want that to happen, do we?

Your website deserves all the attention it can get from your targeted visitors... right?

The good news is that you have all the powers and capability at your hand to choose a good name that can work well for you and your business from the start. Picking a good name may seem like a pretty basic thing.

Naturally if you own a business, it seems quite logical that you should use your business name as your domain. Well that would be a terrible mistake to do unless of course your business name is an house hold name. Take our free tutorial on how to choose a good name here

Before choosing your domain, you should familiarize your self with some of the guidelines that have been put in place to harmonize the whole process.

Domain name Guidelines

1. Domain names must be at least two characters long but no morethan 63 characters(not counting the top level domain).

2. You can use any combination of letters, numbers, or hyphens, but you are not allowed to use a hyphen as the first or last character.

3. Domains are not case-sensitive; there is no differentiation between upper and lower cases letters.

4. A domain registrar has the flexibility to offer initial and renewal registrations in one-year increments, with a total registration period limit of ten years.

5. You can retain ownership of a domain if you already have an offline business registered in that name by being awarded a trademark holder over others through arbitration or litigation.

Besides the guideline, Let us now look at the traits of a good name.

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