The best domain registrars.

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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. 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.
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