how do you buy a domain name?

Question

i want to start a dot com business, how do i get started?

Answer 1

Domain prices have fallen in the past years and GoDaddy.com http://www.godaddy.com offers them for $8.95 per year.

The cost of the website will depend on various factors:

- It depends on what website you start. An ecommerce website will need shopping cart, payment gateway, merchant account, SSL for encryption, etc. A purely information website only needs a domain name - and possibly a content management system if the site is expected to grow its content substantially
- The bells and whistles you like to add.
- Your capabilities. Cost will be lower if you can install or create the applications yourself, and will rise if you have to hire a web designer or someone to install your applications

Take for example an ecommerce website with the following requirements:

$8.95 = per year domain name registration from Godaddy
$2,500 = website design
$59.95/month = payment processing gateway through Verisign Payflow services
$199 = for two years SSL digital certificate from Thawte
$185 = shopping cart from X-cart

The above costing will increase or decrease depending on the factors I cited above. For example, if you will do the photography and copy writing, then you save money. But if you will contract that out, then that means more expense for you.

Here are the steps you need to take when creating your online business:

STEP 1: Set Your Goals

- Why do you want a web site?
- What is the size of the online market?
- What are the goals for your website?

STEP 2: Develop Your Web Site Strategy

- Who is your website target audience?
- What typically appeals to your target audience?
- How are the other websites (your competition) reaching out to this target audience?
- How will you measure your performance?

STEP 3: Set-Up Implementation Plans -

- What name will you give to your site?
- Where will you buy your domain name?
- How do you envision the design of your web site?
- How will you create your website?
- How will you create your content?
- How will you maintain your website?

STEP 4: Start the Ball Rolling

- Do you have a logo?
- For e-retailers, do you have the critical components needed to run an e-commerce site?
- How are you going to host your site?

STEP 5: Create and Launch Your Web Site

- Have you uploaded your site with your chosen web host provider?
- Are the scripts and application you need for your website functioning well?
- Have you tested your website?

STEP 6: Promote Your Web Site and Measure Its Results

- Do you have a plan in place to market your website?
- Do you regularly review your traffic logs and web site performance tracker?
- How are you going to get sites to link to you?
- Do you know the search engine keywords that you rank well?
- If your site is not visible in the search engine results pages for its keywords, what strategies do you intend to do?

STEP 7: Maintain Your Website and Grow Your Web Business

- Continue to find ways to grow your web business.
- How do you intend to continue your education on web development?

Answer 2

The best routes to take are to research the process of starting a business as well as the industry you're interested in.

I recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box.

Research, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can. Here are some book titles that are relevant:

* Starting an Online Business For Dummies, 4th Edition by Greg Holden
* How to Start and Maintain A Successful Online Business by Kelly Thornton
* The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build, and Maintain a Successful Web-Based Business by Janice Reynolds

There are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.

Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!

Answer 3

I guess it depends on your level of expertise. I am assuming that you are starting from scratch and do not know any of the following:
how to write html, how to ftp to your site, that you need to have web hosting in addition to your domain name, etc.

It also depends on what you want your site to do? For example is it going to be an online store, or an adult site, or a personal web page for family photos? Each of these has different requirements to make successful.

The company below is who I use to purchase domain names, they have very low prices and offer quite a few free services that other companies charge extra for.

Feel free to write to me if you need more specific advice!

:-)

Suzette

Answer 4

Now that you've got the identify you ought to get website hosting, that is to mention the bodily computing device that truthfully runs your internet site. Most persons hire out area on gigantic server farms, nevertheless you're additionally loose to established a laptop on your residence as a server. If you don't seem to be an IT it could be exceptional to head with the renting choice. The manufacturer you purchased your identify from most likely additionally has website hosting offerings, so you'll be able to simply cross with them in case you like. Once you've website hosting, you simply ought to create your internet site (which means, the sequence of HTML records, photograph records, flash items, and so on) after which add the entire records for your server.

Answer 5

you join a site that has free web sites, then look up their Domain Name purchases, and buy what you want.

Answer 6

www.godaddy.com don't mind the name it is legit and cheap too!