Design-World Watch

Home >> Domain Names

Choosing and Effective Domain Name

Posted on: Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Domain Names

Choosing an effective domain name is an important part of creating your Web visibility plan, but not the main driver of website success.
If your company name or abbreviation is not available, then you may want to consider using keywords in your domain name. Don’t worry about .com or .us, search engines will get visitors to […]

Domain Name Expirations Don’t Be a Hostage

Posted on: Monday, March 10th, 2008 in: Best Practices, Domain Names

Nancy’s post for today is at Web-World Watch on the topic of domain name crisis and being held hostage by your registrar. Click in to read this article to learn the preventative actions you need to take.

Domain Expiration Don’t Let It Happen to You!

Posted on: Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 in: Domain Names

When you get a notice that your domain is about to expire, make sure you react, and react quickly.  There is nothing worse than having to let a client know that in their ignorance and lack of action that they have lost their domain name or will have to pay several hundred dollars to get […]

Keep Control of Your Domain Name

Posted on: Friday, February 22nd, 2008 in: Domain Names

When you are a website owner, it is important that YOU keep control of your domain name. I cannot begin to tell you the problems that I have come across where a new client has let the previous webmaster or the original web designer procure their domain name for them. In the most serious cases, […]

Multiple Domains and Domain Masking

Posted on: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in: Tips, Best Practices, Domain Names

It used to be a very smart search engine tactic to buy a whole bunch of domains and point them, using domain forwarding to your main hosted website. Another big tactic was to take multiple domains and domain mask them so that it appeared that your main website had many different domain names with the new domain […]