How To Start A Web Business – Purchasing A Domain

In this video, I want to talk about how to start a web business – purchasing a domain. Now I plan to do a few videos on the subject. This particular video is about purchasing a domain name. When we start a web business, we first need a website. So I am going to purchase a domain name for my website. If you don’t know what a domain name is, a domain name is like what we have here, webservice.roybrettononline.com. So, I am going to purchase a domain name for my new website to take people through the process of building a website.

 

 

 

Purchasing A Domain

So when you purchase a domain name, it is a good idea to purchase a name that relates to your niche. If your website’s about gardening, it is good to have something with the word gardening or gardens or something similar. Now, it does not make any difference to Google. You can have whatever domain name you want. However, to the people looking at your website, it’s good to have a domain name that relates to what you’re doing.

So what I am doing; the name I want is acountrymans.com. Let’s see if it’s available; I will paste it into the domain name search; incidentally, always check the spelling. as it’s so easy to make an error. And then that means you have to make a phone call to your domain supplier. Some of the domain suppliers will let you change your domain name if you have made a genuine mistake. However, some of them will not allow you to make changes. The domain supplier I use does allow changes. So, I have put the domain into the search function to see if the domain is available.

 

Check To See If the Domain Is Available

So, acountrymansview.com is available and so is the co.uk one; I usually tend to buy both the.com and the.co.uk. I’m based in the uk, but I will probably use the .com.A .co.uk is good if you have a business where you only want to reach the UK market. However, if you are looking more to reach the world, then a .com is a better option.
I will purchase both domains and redirect the .co.uk domain. So just click here, make it yours, adding the domain to the cart. And lets click.co.uk domain so that no one else can purchase it. We will then continue to the cart. So let’s go here.

 

Complete The Purchase

There are other domains available as you can see. I don’t require these domains, but it gives suggestions to what’s available. So I’m going to continue to the cart, which should open in a minute. I don’t do any domain protection. I just click on the no thanks button and then continue to the cart. Some people do, but personally, I don’t.

 

 

So let’s just wait a while while the cart loads. So we can also purchase our domain for up to 5 years in advance. On this occasion, I will just do it for one year. You can get a slight discount , but I will do it for the year. and then let’s do this one also for one year. And now I am going to check out. So the total is $19 87. I’m going to pause the video just while I check out rather than wasting your time. So I’ll be back in a moment. I will be back in a moment.

Okay, I’m back. I’ve now checked out, and here is one of my domains a .com and a .co uk. You can find all your domains in your account, here.

Change The Nameservers

But, so I am on acountrymansview.com. And then I’m going go to manage the DNS. Now we need to change what they call the nameservers here. Every time you purchase a domain name you are given default nameservers. So these are the default nameservers, but I will enter some different nameservers as I will be hosting my website somewhere else. for my situation, I need to change the nameservers, I will tell you why in a moment.
So now you can see that it says, enter my own nameservers, and then says advanced. Basically, when you have a website, you need to have like an engine to power the website. Hosting is like an engine that powers your website.

 

Host Your Website

So whoever hosts your website, we need to go and use the correct nameservers, your hosting company will be able to give you your nameservers. I will show you a platform that I belong to called Wealthy Affiliate. I will put my profile and web address at the footer of this video. Wealthy Affiliate provides free hosting if you are a member of the platform.

So basically, Wealthy Affiliate is a training website for people who want to build an online business. I’ve been a member for almost eight years. I joined November, 2014. As you can see on the screen, one of the bonuses they offer is website hosting. They have all sorts of training from getting started videos to more advanced videos. I recommend the Wealthy Affiliate platform if you’re considering starting an online business. It teaches you the correct way to create an online business Wealthy Affiliate has lots of different training videos to help you get started.

 

 

For the purpose of the video, I am going to use the Wealthy Affiliate hosting. The hosting is something that comes when you are a paid member of Wealthy Affiliate. It’s great for starting a new website and they also have site support if you run into any problems. I still use some other hosting but I also have a dedicated server for my larger websites. So we have the nameservers here. So, in this case, there are two nameservers; in some cases, there are three nameservers, but I just need two nameservers. And then, we click save.

 

 

See that it says changing nameservers is risky and could potentially lead to your website disappearing from public view. The only reason they say that is because really want you to host your website with them. To be fair, I use some other hosting and it’s fine. But for the purpose of the videos that I am creating, I want to use the Wealthy Affiliate hosting. Once we have clicked the box, we can then press continue.

I will be creating some more videos on the subject of building a website. Please subscribe to my channel to look out for more videos on the subject.