Information on Creating a Domain Name for Your Unique, Custom Business or Personal Professional Email Address

• You can register domain names that are a word, a name, a phrase... virtually any combination of alpha and/or numerial characters. Even a combination that doesn't read as a word, name or phrase.

• Your domain name can be as short as 3 characters or as long as 63 characters - plus the ending extension like: .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .ws

• Your domain name can not include any spaces and must only use letters, numbers and hyphens ( dashes "-" ) like your-25-cent-store.com

• Your domain name cannot begin or end with a hyphen (dash)

• Domain names are not case sensitive, so there is no reason to use capital letters when registering them. If in the registration process you see the domain name given in all capital letters, that is OK. The actual registration is made in all lower case letters. However, when you tell people your domain name, it's OK to use capital letters to make it easier to read-- for example: you can use TheSmithFamily.com instead of thesmithfamily.com.

• Your domain name must be unique. There can't be more than one email address or website with the same domain name. We provide you a search tool to find out if a domain name is available.

• If the name you want is already in use, you may want to check for variations. For example, if you wanted "www.myname.com", variations of the spelling or word order may help you choose a new domain name. Or try adding hyphens (dashes "-") between words (my-domain-name.com).

  Check the availability of "MyDomainName.com" or "My-Domain-Name.com" or "MyDomainNameOnline.com" or "ShopMyDomainName.com". And don't forget to check the name with the other extensions like: "MyDomainName.NET", "MyDomainName.ORG, MyDomainName.INFO", "MyDomainName.EXPERT", "MyDomainName.US or "MyDomainName.STORE". There are literally over 1,000 extensions available.

• Here are some examples to help you create the domain name for your custom, unique personal or business email address:
  

  Prefixes Add in front of desired name: MYdomainname OURdomainname YOURdomainname GOdomainname GOTOdomainname SHOPdomainname ONLINEdomainname FORdomainname WEBdomainname NETdomainname Idomainname I-domainname Edomainname E-domainname

  Suffixes Add at end of desired name: domainnameCENTRAL domainnameONLINE domainnamePORTAL domainnameFAMILY domainnameSTORE domainnameMALL domainnameCENTER domainnameZONE domainnameSOURCE domainnameWORLD domainnameHUB domainnameLINK domainnameCOMPANY domainnameCORP

  Use with Family Name If your family name is Smith: Smith.com TheSmiths.com SmithFamily.com Smith-Family.com TheSmithFamily.com SmithFamilyOnline.com MySmithFamily.com OurSmithFamily.com SmithFamilyCircle.com SmithFamilyTree.com SmithFamilyCorner.com SmithFamilyReunion SmithFamilyVacation.com SmithGenealogy.com

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