Comments on: Choosing The Right Domain Name For Your Business

By: Hunter

Hunter — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:20:21 +0000

Yes, I agree to your opinion.
1.keyword+keyword
2. brand name+keyword

The best is to buy a .com domain, but if your target market is uk,then the better buying a co.uk.

By: Blogging Tip No. 1 - use your own domain

Blogging Tip No. 1 - use your own domain — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:17:54 +0000

[...] for less than USD $9 from namecheap.com and other registrars, and you can find out more about choosing a domain name in this previous LogOn.ie blog entry. Tags: blogging, Domains, Search Engine [...]

By: Money From Home

Money From Home — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:31:27 +0000

being a “domainer” I can tell you that with an .ie extension you will rank higher in Ireland

By: Alastair

Alastair — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:15:12 +0000

Hi Kylie,

I find that it's really common for business owners to skim over the domain name choice quickly.

One example of a requirement that I had for LogOn.ie was a fairly obvious but simple one:

It must be possible for a radio listener or person on the end of a telephone to be able to spell the domain name correctly after hearing it said normally one time only -- without spelling it out!

I recommend this to every business when at all possible.

Regarding your own domain name, and me being a geek, I thought this was a reference to the tilde symbol '~' which is sometimes spelled tilda. It can mean approximately, home and some other things.

I just read your latest blog posts and I see that's not the case, but it's interesting how different people interpret these things :)

Cheers,
Alastair.

By: Kylie Short

Kylie Short — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:43:50 +0000

I don’t think I gave all that much thought to it when I chose my domain name. I do know that I made a conscious decision to make it a short one. I have the .com and the .com.au version too just because my business name is trademarked in Australia.

It’s only since I started working online that I realised the importance of choosing a domain name and I’m glad that I have the one I chose. It is exactly for branding reasons that I chose one for my hosting business that is tied to my Virtual Assistant business, capitalising on the name and reputation I have built already.

By: Alastair

Alastair — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:58:24 +0000

Hi Darren,

I agree with you 100% when you talk about the inconsistency of country TLDs.

A company with foreign customer base will not benefit much from their .IE.

However, for an Irish business servicing a local market, having the .IE address will increase their credibility due to the factors mentioned (in the blog post).

Thanks for the comment!
Alastair.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:12:28 +0000

I’m unconvinced about the benefits of .ie addresses. While they may provide some local benefits if your business is almost all Irish, if you have a more global user/client base, or aspire to in the future, you need the .com.

US or Australian visitors for example, would simply never consider typing in a .ie address, even if they knew you were an Irish business. There’s no consistency in TLDs to tell them what the Irish TLD actually is.

.co.uk for the UK, .de for Germany, .com.au for Australia, and .com for – where? No consistency.

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:03:59 +0000

Hey Cormac,

Thanks for that. These squatters are not quite so effective – fairly generic page on there!

Cheers!
Alastair.

By: Cormac

Cormac — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:41:30 +0000

Nice piece.

Experts-exchange.com use the hypen. I don't think they ever registered the non hypen'd name.

But Expertsexchange was squatted for the 'do or don't hypen' reason you mentioned above.

Power Gen Italia is a stroke of genius though :)