Domain name
Use these links to check whether the domain name you wish to have is still available. After this, we do the needful.
Keep in mind following
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Registered domain names are no longer available, of course.
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Some domain names are on hold. These cannot be registered for neither (they are in the fridge until they reappear on a domain server).
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Domain names should contain numbers, letters and the hyphen “-“ only.
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Domain names should begin and end with a number or a letter.
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Domain names should be minimum 2 and maximum 63 characters in length.
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The hyphen cannot be used on two successive places in the name.
10 golden tips
- Choose a domain name as brief as possible : www.superclean.be is much better than www.superclean-smith-london-and-some-more-of-this.be
- Choose as domain name the name of your company or your product, if still available of course. If indeed the name of your company is “Superclean”, choose as domain name www.superclean.be and/or www.superclean.com. If this name is no longer available (which is, unfortunately, the case for superclean, what a pity), be creative and invent another, often much better name. Instead of www.superclean.be you can easily imagine following :
- www.supercleaner.be (available ! at 10/6/05)
- www.superclean-online.be (available ! at 10/6/05)
- www.superclean-brussel.be (available ! at 10/6/05)
- www.superclean-pieters.be enz (available ! at 10/6/05)
- Choose the right extension in function of your target public. Extensions are the additions after your domain name : be, com, net, org, nl etc. If you focus only on the local market, then it is good to choose .be. Visitors will select easily on their search machine the “Websites for Belgium”. In this way, no foreign extensions are shown (nl, fr, …) and the .be websites rank first. Is your horizon larger, choose for a .com. Still hesitating ? register with .be as well as with .com, and have a link on both to each other. An additional registration doesn’t cost that much.
- Be careful with hyphens, unless, of course, you have no other choice. If your company name is “the foaming sponge” (instead of superclean), then you can register for both www.the-foaming-sponge.be and www.thefoamingsponge.be. Registration for both domain names offers you 2 important benefits :
- The name without hyphens will be entered more easily by the visitor in the navigation bar (and be found), than the one with hyphens
- On the other hand, the name with hyphens is better for search machines. The words separated with a hyphen are recognized as words on their own. A descriptive domain name like www.superclean-industry.be has the advantage to be found on superclean as well as on industry.
- Choose a solid name, a name that will last for a while. Are you specialised in washing cars, and you have plans to enlarge this in future with trucks, office windows and industrial installations, then a name like www.superclean.com is clearly a name longer lasting than www.carclean.com.
- Beware for names of big existing companies. If your family name happens to be “Ford”, then www.ford-superclean.com is probably not a good idea.
- Don’t forget to renew your domain name after the initial registration period. Just imagine your biggest competitor becomes all of a sudden Superclean.
- Use strong words in your domain name, such as super, for free, new, and avoid empty words like tidy, common, dirty, etc. Superclean is in a way a very good name but… unfortunately no longer available.
- Register today, if you wait until tomorrow your name can be taken by someone else. Even if you haven’t yet your website, the name will be yours anyway.
- Apply above instructions.