Domain names

If you want to have a website or company email address, you’ll want to register your own domain name to look more professional and to make it easier for your customers to find. You may even want to register more than one to account for plurals or spelling mistakes.

Make a list of the domain names you would like and then visit one of the registration websites listed in the contacts section on the next page to check if they are available and how much they will be to register.

Emma does a search online and is delighted to find that both racinggreens.com and racinggreens.co.uk are available. She buys both of them on her credit card from a registrar in the US for $37.85 in total for two years of registration. That’s only about £25 at ...

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