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There's a lot riding on your domain name and the importance of having your own domain name cannot be over-emphasised. Your domain name is imperative to the success of your website, if anyone tells you otherwise - quite frankly, they're lying.

If you are running an online business, and don't yet have a domain name, you are probably losing thousands of dollars worth of business because of this.

Why register a domain name?
In order to sell on the web, you need to build up your credibility. Having your own domain name is the first step in that process.

You need a domain name if you're serious about being an online entity, it's where you'll direct all your potential customers to. To attract customers, you've got to make a good first impression, and having your own domain is one of the best impressions you can set!

Get a tangible edge over your competitors!
A domain name is your own unique identity and always will be as long has you continue to register that name. Say for instance you hosted your free site with a free hosting provider, and you found that you needed a more advanced host because your website was becoming successful. Visitors and links to your site would know you by the long geocities URL (especially if they have saved it to their favourites) and you'd have to start promoting your new URL all over again. If you had your own domain name you could change hosts as often as you like (just like changing a phone company for your telephone calls) and people would still be able to find you, by simply typing your domain name from any internet browser.

Promote your own domain name
You can promote your website instead of someone else's when you're sending emails as your domain name will be in the email address, for example bobsplumbing@joebloggs.dot.com is helping to promote joebloggs.com.

Your likely to have more traffic to your website with your own domain name because more people will be returning as they can remember your address and because many search directories such as Yahoo only index websites with their own domain name.

To summarise - selecting the right domain name is crucial!
The right domain name can increase your search engine ranking. Research shows, that web sites that use their product or identity in their domain name rank higher when their customers search for their product or business through the search engines. For example, if you are a florist, you might select "my-florist-shop.com", or even "parramatta-florists.com.au".

Now that your ready to get yourself a domain name please proceed by entering your domain name in the search field above, or if you would like to view domain name pricing, please click here.

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