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Domain Names

Domain Name

What’s a domain name?
A domain name can also be referred to as a URL is how people find your website. It’s a unique identifying address like a phone number, instead of someone calling you they enter your domain in to a web browser to access your website.

Every website needs a domain name, you can also connect an email or multiple emails to your domain name. For a website to work you need a domain name that points users to your hosting where your website is saved.

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Search for your Perfect domain name

Choosing a Domain Tips

Choosing the correct domain name is essential, sometimes you have no choice as it’ll be the name of your company, but, if you have the freedom to choose, here’s a few useful tips.

  • Try to use keywords in your domain
  • Keep it short and sweet
  • Make it easy to spell and pronounce
  • Make it unique and easily brandable
  • Don’t use symbols
  • If possible avoid double letters
  • Try to think of future expansion

Now you know you’re on to a winner,
why don’t you take the next step?

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HOW DO I GET AN EMAIL FOR MY DOMAIN?

All registered domains allow the use of a personalised email.

What this means is you’re able to create an email account that’s associated with your domain, example: info@yourdomain.co.uk.

You can set up your email account using our SMTP servers, you can add the domain to mail clients such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail etc, so you’re able to send and receive wherever and whenever from your professional email account.

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