Why register a domain name?

If you are a company owner it is clear that a domain registration that matches your business name is an essential purchase. If you are an individual then the reason to purchase your own domain name is a little bit more complicated.

There are almost 100 million domain registrations as of March 2007 according to webhosting.info. That is a lot of domains registrations so it is no wonder that this question begs to be answered.

The single most practical reason to register a domain name is to secure an email address that will never change. More often than not you'll end up switching Internet service providers in the future so using their freely provided email is a good way to lose touch with friends, family, and business associates. In addition to this very important reason to secure your own domain name we have compiled a list of reasons to purchase a domain registration.

Credibility & Identity

If you have an existing website the url might look like something like this.

http://domain.com/~yourname

It looks much more credible and professional when you have http://yourname.com as the url for your web site instead. Of course securing your identity on the Internet is an important part of being an integral part of the web.

Changing Web Hosts

If you are not using your own domain name then you'll end up losing all the valuable links that your web site has accumulated. It makes much more sense to pay the very low price that is costs to purchase your own domain name and avoid this problem in the future.

Inexpensive

Purchasing your own domain name will more than likely be under the price of a dinner and a movie and this is for an entire year of ownership.

Future Investment

There are already companies that only buy domain names so they can sell them in the future. If you have a great idea then it is better to invest into it now than to lose it to someone else. Even if you can think of a domain name that will be valuable in the future why not snatch it up now and sell it later?

Avoid Being Duped

If you already have made a name for yourself or have started a business and someone decides to buy a domain registration with your name on it you're out of luck. There have been some very big name companies that had to negotiate with Cybersquatters because they did not register their domain name in time before domain registration became popularized.

If these reasons are still not enough for you then think about domain registrations as real estate. I'm sure that if you had bought a house in the 1900s you would be able to sell it for a whole lot more than you bought it for. Domain registrations are the land plots of the Internet so not investing in land when it is so cheap would be like burning your money.

All web hosting companies provide domain registrations and more often than not they are free. So let us help you decide which web hosting company is right for you and secure your domain registration today!