Top 7 Web Domain Name Registration Mistakes

By: David Solaxim Hi, Buddy, So you are going to reserve your new domain name. If you ‎avoid these top 7 web domain name registration mistakes you would not ‎only have more valuable domains but also a high resale value if you want ‎to sell it later on.‎‎7. Waiting to Reserve Domain Name till Finish This Article‎I don't know how but it seems that a good domain name do not come in ‎to the mind of a single person. May be up to hundreds of people are ‎thinking about that domain name. And the one who reserves it first is the ‎winner. So if you have a good domain name in mind, don't even wait ‎finishing this article. Go and reserve that domain name first. You do not ‎have to use that domain name at all if you later found it to be not so fit. ‎But you have it, you can sell it or use it for something else or at least you ‎won’t be sorry because domain names are very cheap these days. ‎Remember domain names are cheap but only until they are not reserved.‎‎6. Register Someone Trademark as a Web Domain Name‎Do an exhaustive research that your domain name is not someone else ‎trademark. Laws are changing rapidly everywhere and even ordinary ‎surfers feel bad about a website when its web domain name is looking like ‎a cyber squatted web domain name. Also there is a chance of getting ‎legal notice for doing this. They may not ask damages but they can easily ‎take back domain name! So please either do not use anything that looks ‎like some trademarks in your domain name or do a research. Again if a ‎trademark infringement war starts you would be in better position if you ‎have reserved it first so get it now!‎‎5. Spelling Your Web Domain Name Is Difficult‎Can anyone easily spell your domain name? At least your possible ‎customers should be able to spell it right the first time. Try this: Talk to ‎someone on phone and ask to spell your domain name. If he needs to ‎confirm the spelling by re asking then probably it is not an easily spelled ‎domain name. Make your domain name easy to spell because that avoids ‎typing mistakes and also you would not have to tell every one twice about ‎your domain name spellings.‎‎4. Domain Name Having No Connection to Business Name‎Try as much as possible that your domain name is your business name ‎and vice versa. If it is not possible then you have to publicize two names, ‎which is not only difficult for you to market but difficult for the customers ‎also because he has to remember two things instead of one.‎‎3. Not Protecting Domain Hijacking‎Double check your name and contact is listed in Whois as owner and ‎technical contact of the domain name. Your hard developed domain can ‎be hijacked by your ISP or the person doing registration for you. Not all ‎are bad. Some may be lazy only. They have already typed their details ‎that can be auto filled in to registration forms. But this is their problem. ‎You should insist your name and contact email on Contact Information. ‎Mostly used fields are: Registrant Contact Information, Administrative ‎Contact ‎Information, Technical Contact Information, Billing Contact ‎Information.‎‎2. Anything Other Than Dot Com for Business Web Domain ‎Name RegistrationIf you are registering a domain name for business purposes then make ‎sure you get it in dot com like "YouDomainName.com". There are many ‎reasons for this like it is the default extension in user minds and in most ‎browsers. If you get say "YouDomainName.Net" then you would be one-‎way sharing your traffic with "YouDomainName.com" which is not a good ‎idea.‎‎1. Domains of More Than 7 Letters‎Though Domain names can have up to 67 Letters length, very few people ‎would be eager to type your domain name for just seeing your offers. ‎Also typing errors grow exponentially with lengthy names. So whenever ‎possible use least possible domain name length About the Author:David Solaxim is CEO of Solaxim http://www.solaxim.com/. His website contains more articles related to domain name services.