Hi, my name is Daniel Walter Scott,  and in this training we're gonna look at registering your  domain name using the world's most popular domain,  registrar GoDaddy. So from the homepage up here along the top  where it says search domain,  type in the domain name you'd like to buy. Now for this example, I'm going  to be buying the domain name called green  gardener supplies.com. Okay, I'm gonna hit search domain. It says, yes, your domain is available. Great.

I'm gonna click continue. Now, GoDaddy are gonna give you a couple  of other extra options. They're gonna try and upsell you with things. So let's go through this. This first one here,  it says, for your privacy. So what happens is when you register a domain name,  you will have to give your name, your address,  your phone number that goes against your registration.

But what you can do is you can, down here, you can pay  for 7 99 per domain for a year. This will hide this registry  and what ends up happening is that instead  of your name going into the name field,  GoDaddy will register this domain for you in their name. So instead of your name, Daniel Walter Scott,  it will have GoDaddy instead of your address,  it'll have their address  and so on, protecting you from people being able  to easily find out who registered this domain. Now for me, I don't bother with this extra cost  because I think it's a benefit for me to be able  to contacted for my domain. If you are in a probably a little bit more exciting  industry than software training like me, you might want  to have this extra protection for privacy. Using this protection can save you  from a little bit of spam.

What happens is when you register your domain name,  there are people and companies  and bots out there that will go through your, who is listing  and registration and find out your name  and your email address and start spamming you. Now most of the spam gets stopped  by even the most basic email system. Uh, I use Gmail professional version,  and that stops pretty much a hundred percent of any of  that type of spam getting through. The second option is to add hosting to your account. Now, most people when they are building a website will buy  the domain name at the same time they do their hosting. Now this option on this side has an option for a kind  of like a template website builder.

It's not probably my best advice to use this option  to build your website,  but if you are up to something really quick and easy  and a little bit nasty, then go ahead and use this option. That'll give you an online web builder. Plus hosting over this side will just give you hosting. Now, the ideas around hosting are important enough  that I've created a set of little videos for you  to go check out directly about hosting. The short answer is if you're just starting off  with a website, you probably only need this first version  here of economy. Okay?

You can also register without either of these two. Just have the domain name. Now, this last one where it says email, you're unlikely  to buy a domain name and only have email. You're probably likely to have a domain name with a website,  but if you just plan to have a domain name  and you just want an email address,  [email protected], you'll be able  to add this little option. Now, if you are gonna get hosting, it's one  or the other, you do not need this  and this, you'll see your hosting  has email as part of this as well. And to be honest, it's more common to have email as part  of your hosting than to do it separately.

And probably even more common now is to not use any  of these services for email  and to use a service like Google for Work  where they have your own professional domain. [email protected],  but use the Gmail interface that we all know  and love for our private email that's coming more  and more common these days. Now let's click continue to cart. Now here you can choose the term one year, two year,  three year, five years in 10 years. Here we've got the option again to change. If we want to make our listing private, um,  some added extra domain names,  if we wanna protect the.net dot code  or info, this one here recommended  for you search engine visibility.

My recommendation is that this is not worth the money. Here you can do some basic search engine visibility  yourself, which we'll cover in one of my web design courses. So let's skip that. I don't think it's worth it. We can add another domain name and here we go. Ready to check out.

This is  where you fill out your billing information. Mine's all blurry, hopefully payment method. You can decide whether you're going  to use your credit card or PayPal. I'm going to use PayPal for this one. Make sure you agree to the following universal terms  of service agreement and domain name registration agreement. I'm gonna place my order now here.

I'm gonna fill out my PayPal account. This is where you'll be either filling out your PayPal  or credit card details. Great. We now have a domain name. Now our domain name doesn't go  to any hosting website just yet. I will do a second set of videos going through how  to set up the hosting,  and then another set of how to build a website.

But well done. It's quite exciting  to have our first little domain name.