Domain Name Registration

REGISTERING YOUR DOMAIN NAME

Choosing an effective domain name can really enhance your online presence!

How to choose the best name for your business:

Try to avoid using just letters because they can mean anything - www.xyz.com (even if your actual company name is XYZ) doesn't tell your viewers anything about what you offer as a service or product.
Try to keep your domain name as short as you can, although sometimes a longer name simply cannot be avoided.
You don't necessarily need to use your business name as a domain name, as long as it appears prominently throughout your website.
Make sure that no one in your market area has the same name although with a different "extension". For instance if one of your competitors in your area has the domain name www.bestwidgets.com, choosing www.bestwidgets.ca as your domain name would not only confuse your competitor's market, it would confuse yours.

Our Affordable Web Design Ltd will advise on the best domain name for your business.

WHAT WE DO FOR YOU

Registration/Renewal

As part of our "One-Stop-Shop" concept, we partner with a large Canadian Domain Registrar to offer domain name registration services.

We will help you research the best name possible, and we will look after the registration and renewals for you.
All domain name registrations are registered in the name of the business owner.
The term of the domain registration can be from one year up to nine years. Most of our clients will have us register their name for one year, and we ensure that it is renewed the following year.
We put our contact information on the worldwide directory listing in order to try to protect our clients from spammers and scammers, as well as constant unwanted phone calls trying to talk you into something, but the domain is yours!
The ideal domain name should indicate who you are and what you do, using keywords to describe your products or services.For instance, www.vancouverwidgets.com clearly indicates what you sell and

TRANSFERRING DOMAINS

Most of our clients who have domain names at other registrars such as Go Daddy prefer to transfer their domain to our services to have every together under "one roof". Here is the process:

There are technical steps to follow but it's a pretty straightforward process as long as you have access to your account at your current Registrar (example: Go Daddy, etc.) and we will do the tech stuff for you.
Once you have access to your own account, we will start the process from our Registrar's end.
Domain name transfers are fairly quick, depending on which Registrar you are moving your domain from.
There is a bit of a time lapse to account for the propagation of the domain name server information across the world wide web, usually 5 business days.

Transferring a domain to another Registrar

Should you ever decide you want to go somewhere else for your web services, you take your domain name with you. As long as you paid for it, it is yours!
Any up-to-date account owner can transfer their domain name to wherever they wish - just one technical step and it's done!