Domain via a Registrar

Video (08:20)

Bonus Notes

Registering your domain via an outside company allows you the flexibility of more extensions and can possibly reduce the cost.

Top registrars that I recommend are:

• NameCheap
• Google Domains

Bonus Materials

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Alright, so now that we have kind

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of an idea of what we're going to do
for our domain, the pieces of the domain,

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the anatomy, we're going
to go look for our domain.

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So we're going to search
for different things,

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for example, dot com
and my favorite site to search

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for my perfect name is Domainr
so domain, and then r dot com.

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 I like domain or because

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it is kind of agnostic, it's not
going to try and sell you the domain.

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It's just going to tell you where you can

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register different domains and what
domains are currently available.

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So I had the idea of starting a new site

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with the idea that I'm a mom of two boys,
so the mom of two boys

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and we can see. So mom, two boys
is taken, dot net is available to work.

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Considering that the dot com has taken,
you would at this point probably go

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and look for the social media and see
if the social media has taken us well.

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And if it is, it might be time
to search for a different name.

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If it isn't, then it might be
an option that you would consider.

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We could do something specific, like
two Hoover boys dot com raising two boys.

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That works, raising two boys,
so there's a lot of ideas here and you can

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see the kind of unique extensions, 
dot io dot co, dot app, and it just keeps going.

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And I we believe if we go into one

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of these so let's say we want a dot co, you
can then see where you can register this.

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I go to Techie Mamma,

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it comes up with different things as well.

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So they're getting creative here
and doing Techie Ma and more.

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And that's a unique extension

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I've actually never heard
of. Same thing with this,

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so you can see this one is specific
ones that will register it.

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So if you're really set on a specific
domain, you would look at where you can

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register it and then just go
ahead and register it there.

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Live.

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So Techie Mamma dot show
and see where you can register that, dot 

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Dot blog is only available
to register through WordPress.

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Something to think about.

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It's the WordPress dot com,
but you can still just register it

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and then set it up with your
self hosting site.

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Alright,

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so let's say we have a domain that we
want to register, raising two boys.

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I can see that it like will give
you options as you type things out.

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Raising boys.

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So we want raising two boys so we can look
where to register that,

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let's say we want it for some reason,
which is another common extension.

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It's one of the more popular ones,
especially among startups.

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So something to think about.

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So here we get kind
of a couple different options.

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I want my name as one of my favorite

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places to register Google domains and then
a couple of different options as well.

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So when registering a domain,
there's two ways to do it.

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You can either go to your hosting that you
choose, and we'll talk more about hosting

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the next section
and register through them.

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For example, Blue Hosts gives you
a free domain name for the first year.

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Lyrical Host lets you register
the domain through them.

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It's not free, but I believe it's
about twelve dollars for most of them.

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You can also just go straight
to the domain registrar.

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So Google Domains, NameCheap and IWantMyName

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are three of my favorites.

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I actually registered just about
everything through Google domains because

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they have a really nice management system
and it just works well.

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NameCheap and IWantMyName have

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a broader listing of all
of the extensions name.

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She particularly has really awesome prices

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starting at under two dollars,
which is really awesome.

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So let's go here.

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Let's do our raising two boys

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and search.

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And this will also give you kind
of a search of all of the domain

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extensions are available
and then the prices.

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So for the dot com,

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it's $8.88 a year and then
we get kind of some of the other options.

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One thing to think about is as cool as it
will be to have an extension like I don't

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know and I don't see any other dot
wedding, the cost does go up per year.

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You get something that's very unique
and it helps with your brand in terms

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of it's connected with your industry,
but it can also cost a little bit more.

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So there's always kind of a
balance to reach there.

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So raising two boys dot club,
maybe I want to make it a club.

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There's life raising two boys world.

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There's a lot of different options here.

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So once you choose what you wanted,

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you can just click on Add to Cart
and then just check out as you would

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normally they do have
some web hosting and other options.

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I've never used the name CheapHosting,

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but it's something to try if you
want to just keep it all together.

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So for I want my name, similar idea,

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raising two boys and then we can look
and you'll see all the prices.

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So here the dot com is $14,
whereas here the dot com was $8,

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so something to keep in mind.

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One thing I like about Google domains is

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that they kind of stay
consistent with the extensions.

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There's not a huge drastic change,

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but they also don't offer every
single extension that's out there.

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So for I WantMyName Boys.io
 is $59,

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that gets kind of pricey.

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So you can look at those options similar

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to NameCheap would just
kind of go in and add it.

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Let's see, let's do code,

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so then it's in your cart
and you could go check out.

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I don't believe IWantMyName offers

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hosting, so you would have to go
in and do hosting separately.

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As BlueHost,

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we will go through the options in detail,
but if you click on get started.

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And that we'll just get to the screen
where you can do a domain,

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you can see that they do have some
options, but they don't have all of them.

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So let's say we wanted dot space.

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Space.

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And then you get to the page where you

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start paying for the hosting,
which will go through later.

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Alright.

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Well, I think that wraps
it up for this video.

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So, again, this is your domain.

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This is your name.

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You want a unique name for the example

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part, and then you can go
with a unique extension.

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Some of these popular
extensions are up and coming.

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Our newer you do not have to do a dot com.

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I believe that even doing something that's

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a little bit more unique
will help your brand.

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And Google verifies that it will not hurt SEO.

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You might want to stay away from some

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of the things that have had
an influx of a lot of shady sites.

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But other than that, you should be good.