Hello everyone, my name is John
Welcome to my channel today. And in this video, I'm going to show you how to buy a domain name step by step
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Okay, so let's just have a look at what a domain name is
For example, here is my website and my domain name is new blogger. The dot com that comes after it is called a tld
There are many available, but I do recommend that you go for a dot com tLD, purely because it's the most common
and you'll find that when you run a Google search, that most of domains, or nearly all of them, will be dot-com domains
It's the most popular one, so that's the one that I recommend that you purchase for your site
So where do you buy a domain name? I recommend going to Name Cheap, as you can see on their homepage
TLD.com TLD will cost you less than $9 for 12 months. And the great thing with Name Cheap is they do have software that protects your details on the internet
And what I mean by that is that anyone wants to find out the name and email address of a website owner
and go to who.i is, who.is, put in a website, for example, who is my website, and they can just scroll
down and you can find out who purchased that. And what they do with the email address there is
then they start sending out spam emails. So with Name Chief, you get this Who is Guard software
that protects the detail so they can't find out who owns that website. And Name Chief, often that
software free for life. So all you're doing is you're purchasing your domain name
and you get that for free. There are other domain registrars that actually charge for that
So I recommend going for name cheap or it's free for life. So what you do is you just put in
the domain name that you want. It's just to show you what would happen if you chose
one that was already taken. I'll put mine in here. Right here, new blogger. It will just do a search for you. Just click on that one there
I'll do a quick search to make sure, just to see if anyone else has registered that domain name Because is the most common that be the one that flashes at the top As you can see a new blogger it just doing a quick check for you And it will also give you other TLDs that are available that you may want to purchase
But like I say, I always recommend going for a dot com. As you can see, it's all been registered
And they will have this little tab here, make an offer, which pretty means that they'll send an email or contact the current owner of this domain name
to find out how much they would sell it for if they're interesting is selling. I wouldn't recommend doing that because you may find that you'll be paying thousands of dollars for a domain name, which is not really necessary
You just need to be creative with your name. So what you do is just go back to a new search
At the top here, just cover out that one. And just type in something else that you're looking for
So I'm going to try and find new website. Maybe that might be taken
Okay, so if you do have one, you do find one that is taken
Obviously I'm not going to take this one. It will have a tick here and you'll have an ad cart tab right here and it will tell you the
price per year for that. There is a little extra charge of about 12 cents
We'll just take it over to the $9. If you are struggling with a name, there is a little tip, there's a little website I recommend
to you. It's called nameboy.com. If you're having real problems we find in the main name that is available
then I recommend coming to here at nameboy.com. I'll put a link in description for you
Just put in a couple of keywords that are appropriate for your website
just as an easy one, new website. Click on Submit. They do have a thing with Blue Host at the moment
which is a hosting company. I wouldn't recommend going with Blue Host
I entirely up to you but they don have a very good reputation for site speed and customer service So what it will do here is to use a generator of just a mix and match of these particular keywords new website And you can see here whichever ones are available
So for example here, if you're interested in this one, new website art
I would recommend clicking on here because like I say, they have an agreement or have a thing with Bluehost
So if you were to click on it, then you would go to Bluehost to organize
hosting but I recommend just taking that new website art going back to
name cheap new website art and again it will be available because I've just
checked that it is oh okay so we have it here and I'm not quite sure why
it's done the it's assumed that I want the art because I have art in it but here
we go we have the new website art dot com right here and like I say it's less than $9 per year for a dot com TLD or you just add that to your cart
Now if you've never been to name cheap before, you all need to set up an account to purchase
that domain name. And so what you do is just go to your account, well, okay, okay, so you go
to the checkout. As you can see, it's gone up to $9.6, that's for 12 months. So you just
go to checkout, just organizing your purchase. Now what you have here is do you want to
purchase for one year or do you want to purchase for multiple years and do you also want to have it
as an auto renew if you're throwing that you're going to forget to renew it the danger for that is
if you do forget if it goes over the year then somebody else could possibly take your domain name
from you could purchase it and then you won't be able to get it back unless you make them an offer
so I would recommend that you either set up for many years how long you want this project to go for
or click on the auto renew. And as I said, the protection, the data protection software
is free forever. You don't need to pay a single cent for that. Like I said, with other domain registrars
be careful you do want this You don want your name and your email address available on the internet for people to send you spam emails so once you ready okay you got your domain name you picked the year you clicked on auto renew then you go to
confirm order now if you don't have an account you will need to set an
account with name cheap they just need to put in your details here if you've
already logged in if you already have an account you put your deltas here you don't then you will need to fill in a create account and to do all that and
then once you finish and you'll be able to purchase your domain name for $9.6
So you just need to set up your account, and then you decide on how you're going to pay for it
So once you've done that, you can log into your account. And then you'll have all the details for your domain site
your domain name rather. And the most important thing you'll need from your..
Okay, let me just go to my... dashboard, sorry. I don't really want to purchase this, but I'll take it out in a second
The most important thing that you'll get from your domain is your name service
So once you have your domain name, you all need to buy hosting. And once you have hosting, they will send you their name servers
So you'll need to come back to this domain, and then you'll need to go into manage
And then you're looking for the name service, and it will be that what you'll need to change
to connect it to your hosting account. So as you can see once it's loading, you'll have your name servers right here
So we need to do is just change these two here. And then you have a little tick box here
Just click on the tick. And then within 24 to 40 hours, it will update your name servers
so that your name servers and your hosting account are connected. That's it
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