Domain Name Registration

If you want to do more with the Internet, you're going to need your own little corner on the Internet. It starts with getting your own domain name. Most people by now have heard of GoDaddy. Here you can register your own domain name for less than $9.99 a year.

TIP! For the novice who doesn't know anything at all about HTML or designing webpages, you can register a domain and forward it to your blog or free webpage.

For example, my corporate website is Broke-Off.com. Sometimes, it's hard to explain to people there is a hyphen in the url. What? What's a hyphen? You mean, like a DASH? To save myself the pain and trouble, I registered BrokeOffInc.com and it forwards automatically to Broke-Off.com. It's so much easier now to tell people to go brokeoffinc.com now.

You can apply the same principle to a blog, a myspace page, or anything! You can forward abc.com and have it land on xyz.com. It's easy! GoDaddy offers all these options for free in your control panel after you have signed up.

HOT TIP! Buy yourblogname.com for $9.99 and forward it to your free BlogSpot Blog. Now you can tell others to just go to yourblogname.com and it will redirect and forward to your blog.

GoDaddy.com also offers web hosting packages at low low prices. Smaller webhosting packages start at less than $5 per month. You save even more when you pay for a year in advance. I'll discuss webhosting and cheap design techniques later in subsequent articles on this blog.

Having your own website allows you to:

Upload and store your own images
Create your own rich, dynamic web pages
Setup your own advertising - extra income!
Your own email address on your own domain
Free tools
Create a discussion forum for a community
Sell products or services
Create secure password driven pages for controlled access
Be more creative
Establish more relationships with other sites to crosslink
Own a more personal, absolute web presence
Backup your own data, peace of mind
100% Total control of your own space

HOT TIP! Don't limit yourself to just one domain name, either. Most people get a MYWEBSITE.COM url. If you have a great domain name that is available, try to snatch up the other remaining domain extenders....such as .ORG,.NAME,.BIZ.,.US and so on. Forward those extender domain names to your primary domain name.