Hi, my name is Daniel Walter Scott,  and I'm a trainer here at Bring Your Own Laptop. Now, in this video we're gonna look at how  to choose a domain registrar. Now the registrar is somebody  who you actually give your money to  to purchase your domain name through. Now my advice is to spend a little bit of time doing this  because you're stuck with them for quite a long time. Often you get your hosting with them as well,  and it can be a bit of a hassle changing from one  company to the other. So spending a little bit of time through online reviews  or talking to people that are in the industry like me  to kind of get advice, um, about who  to pick can save a lot of time.

Now, the most popular domain registrar by far is GoDaddy. You can see here GoDaddy, uh, outranks the rest  of them by quite a bit. There's another one called Enon. There's Network Solutions, two cows and plenty more. Now popular does not mean the best. I've been in classes where, uh, the word GoDaddies come up  and somebody in the class has said, yes, I love them.

They had such a great time, I'd recommend them to anybody. And the person right next to them has said, I hate them. I took my business somewhere else. I would never recommend them. So individual reviews can be, uh,  not representative of the whole company. The best thing to do is if you don't have somebody to talk  to, um, a professional who who's worked in the industry  and has had dealt with the same domain name registrar  for quite a long time then is to try things like  top 10 forums and those types of things.

Try typing into Google something like  Top 10 hosting companies in your country. Um, I've used the UK here and dodge the ads  and there is a lot to pick from in terms of review sites. So, um, the one I'm gonna look at,  the one I like the most is this one here. It's the top 10 reviews.com. Um, I like this one. It seems to be valid reviews,  but also the layout of this website's quite nice.

You can see it's got the top 10 here,  but if I scroll down a bit,  can you see the little list follows down? And it really helps you kind of find out  who has what features. So if you've got some really specific features to look out  for, you can slide down here  and just make sure that the domain name you are going  to pick has the right features. And the one that I'm looking for probably the most is,  especially if you're new, is  to scroll down till you find help and support  and just making sure, uh, especially the uh,  twenty four seven phone support. Okay. That's probably one  of the most important when you're brand new, is to be able  to actually phone somebody, have a conversation  with them and get some help.

Now, in terms of domain name registers that I'd recommend  that I've had experience with, um, for the us  I do like GoDaddy. Okay. They're a great, um, great registrar, uh, for the uk. I've used Iage a couple of times  and they work well for the Australian websites. Okay, this company here called Digital Pacific,  they've been my favorite. Okay.

I've tried a few in Australia  and, um, I've ended up changing to these guys  who have been quite helpful in Ireland. I really liked the help with Black Knight. They helped me quite a bit with getting my domain name. And in New Zealand I've used free  parking for a very long time. Now, if you've had any bad experiences  or great experience with domain names,  please leave them in the comments. And if you've had problems with some  of the ones I've recommended, totally drop in your situation  and let's share our combined experience together.