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9 lessons / 0 hours

Overview

This course is to help people who are looking to buy their first domain name. Without any experience this task can be daunting for newbies.

The course assumes no prior knowledge of web or websites. We'll start right at the beginning with tips on choosing a domain name. Then moving into actually buying a domain name and deciding what to do if your domain is gone.

You don't need anything other than an internet connection to follow along with the videos.

Websites and online businesses can be tricky when you're new. There are a million options out there. My courses were created to act as a guide to show you your options and allow you to make informed, experienced decisions even on your first try.

What are the requirements?

  • You will need nothing to follow along with this course.

  • There is a cost involved with buying a domain name but you don't have to spend any money to get full value from this course. What am I going to get from this course?

  • Over 9 lectures and 30 mins of content!

  • Choose and purchase a domain name for their business.

  • Decide on either a local or .com domain name.

  • Know what costs are involved.

  • How to setup a domain name using Godaddy.com

  • What to do if someone else owns the domain you want.

  • How to use domain suggestion tools.

What is the target audience?

We'll start right at the beginning and work step by step through the ways to purchase your first domain name.

This course is for people completely new to web sites and online business. It's aimed at people who have no idea how to buy a domain name.

This course is for absolute beginners. If you understand the basics of website creation or have purchased your own website domain before then this course might be too simplistic for you.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Hi my name is Daniel Walter Scott and I'm a trainer here at Bring Your Own Laptop.

In this video we're going to look at how to use a domain name suggestion tool.

A domain name suggestion tool are used for people who maybe have ideas about domain names but need some help picking one, or the domain name you really want is gone and you need to come up with an alternative, both of those uses are great for these sites.

These are the two that I end up using, namemesh.com and the other one is called panabee.com now either one is good, they both come up with different results, I'm going to type in 'green gardener', they want you to put in spaces between key words, you can see it says "works best with 2-3 words" give them those two words separated.

Now you'll see the red ones are the ones that are already gone, they can be good to have around just to give you ideas about other things but you can hide the ones that are already registered. You'll notice that I can scroll down and this thing here, it keeps loading more as I scroll down, it eventually runs out but you've got a lot of time to go through and consider whether chunkygardener, mincegardener and egggardener are useful for you, theres lots of rubbish in here but there's actually some nice stuff to get the creative juices flowing.

Now Panabee works a similar sort of way, I like these guys, they have quite a nice little initial search, little heart breaks means they're gone. They do some nice things at the top here to go through about things like dropping the first letter and spelling it backwards, things that you might not consider by yourself, but also some really useful ones as well. Gardenr with just the 'r', greengardnerio that's my favourite. Another nice part of this site is right down the bottom here there is related terms, so green and gardener have been split up and there ar some related terms, will 'naive gardener' work? or 'sick gardener' work? Not for my one but some of these things can be helpful for you when you're picking domain names.

Now both of these sites, both Panabee and Namemesh both link back to GoDaddy when you try and register, you can go through and change, you don't have to use godaddy but both of these guys link through and they'll get a commission on if you click the links, you won't get charged any more, so if you like their service definitely go through, click the link and then register your domain name.

And that's it for domain name suggestion tools, if you've got a really good one that you use, please drop it into the comments and share it with the gang.

All right, see you later!

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