Welcome to the very first step for building your online business. You need to read all the mentioned points because we have tried our best to clear all your doubts related to a domain name. There are generally two important steps in getting started out of which registering a domain name is the first step followed by hosting your website on a web hosting server.

What is a Domain Name?
A Domain Name is a name using which you can create a identity on the internet ie www. A Domain Name consists of 2 main items ie ‘name dot com’

Example : IndianProblogger dot Com | The first word is the domain name followed by a dot and the Tld[Top Level Domain] which can be .com, .net, .org, .in,. name, .biz, .info etc. There are a lot of different Tld you can select for registering your domain name which are based on different categories like country based TLD like .in - India, .us - United States, .uk - United Kingdom, or based on generic top-level domains like .gov - Government, .mil - military, .aero - air-transport industry, .com - commercial etc list of Tld

Selecting a Good Domain Name :
Its very important to do a high amount of research for selecting the best domain name because its your online identity and you cannot change the name in the later stage.

Register a Domain Name :
Most Domain Names are registered for a minimum of 1 year term and you are originally leasing the domain name from the registry and you need to make a registration fees every year to make sure you can handle it. Once the Domain name is expired after the term, its expired and available to everyone. You can register a domain name for as low as 9USD[350Rs] fees and get started. The pricing of domain registration depends on the TLD you are looking to register.

Make sure you register with a reliance domain registrar like Godaddy , HostBrains.com etc and try to avoid companies like register.com which charge 4 times the general pricing which is around 35$/year. Its also always recommended to register all your domain names from a single registrar because you can handle all your domain names easily and get notified in case there are any renewals etc.

Domain Name Privacy :
if you are not interested in giving our your business information / contact details in public, then the best option for you would be to register your domain name with Privacy Protection. As per the registrars policy you need to have real legit information to be submitted for registration of a domain name, or else it can get cancelled at any time. In order to prevent this you can go for WhoisGuard Subscriptions for hiding your contact details.

Domain Registrar Support :
We are very much sure that most of the visitors who come to IndianProblogger.com are very much new to this blogging field and are looking for complete steps in order to get started. We recommend you to contact Hostbrains.com Support because they offer 24/7 email support, phone support & Live Support which can help you at times you have some serious doubts/ problems with your domain name registration.

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