Buying a domain (that’s a .com name, if you don’t know) is cheap, fast and fun. Even if you don’t know a thing about HTML or WordPress, if you’ve got a catchy name, why not register it? Sure, there are millions of domains that have been registered already, this doesn’t mean you should give up. Some people go as far as to snap up domains, locking them up before anyone else gets them. Personally, this doesn’t make a lot of sense but everyone is different. I guess if you’ve got money to tie up, maybe it makes sense.

Buying a domain means that you have it for a one year term. Many discount hosting companies offer significant discounts if you sign up for a two year or longer term. Many also give you discounts if you buy multiple domains at a time.

Right now, I would stick to the old .com domain if you’re going to try and make some money it it. People know .com, they assume that every site is a .com site and immediately head to whatever.com , even if the site is whatever.org.

In fact, when you are signing up for your domain with most companies, they will offer you all of the various combinations of your domain at the same time. Want whatever.com? How about getting whatever.org or whatever.net at the same time? The point of this, of course, is to guard against someone else stealing traffic away from your catchy name. Think of it. If you could snag google.org or google.info, you would. You’d be crazy not to.

Once you have your domain, think about doing something with it. As you might have read in past posts, I use WordPress on all of my sites. You can read about installing WordPress here and about how to set up your domain hosting here. Anything you want to know about installation and hosting is on this site, just search for the answers if you’re stuck. If I can do it, your probably can too.

Thanks for reading!