Anyone have experience in domain names for business?

[JoeR]

Does anyone have experience of domain names? I wanted a bit of advice for my new business.

 

Would like to correspond via pm if possible.

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I was made redundant on Friday so am having to look at self employment again.

 

Thanks

 

Joe

[Locitus[Admin]]

Domain names are easy. You buy one from a vetted company, pay x sum every year to keep it (I pay about 10 USD/year for locitus.com) and then you administer it from the website of where you bought the domain name.

 

A-records points to your servers IP address

CNAMES point to an A record and serve as nicknames for A records (not really used much on public internet)

MX-records points to A records but are only used by E-mail servers, so point them to your A record "mail.example.com" and not www.example.com

[JoeR]

Thanks buddy, I am cool with that, what I meant was advice on the style of domain name, using hyphens etc, the actual structure of the domain name. Ie Joe-R as opposed to joer etc etc...

[ZeroRoom[TK]]

PM sent

[JoeR]

Thanks guys.

[Kade[TK]]

Keep the name simple, the easier it is to type the less likely that people will enter it incorrectly.

 

(and be able to remember it)

Edited February 15, 2012 by Kade