Personal or Business Domain

4. Personal or Business Domain

Another choice when selecting your next domain name is whether you should choose to name your domain with your own name or company name, or maybe using the keywords that identify your market niche.

To identify the best domain for your market niche, you can use a free service like DomainsBot that will give you suggestions and alternatives on those domain names you could pick to identify your business activity.

DomainsBot also helps you discover whether the domain name you want is still available, for sale, or yet purchased.

Once you have identified your market niche, do the following:

• If being found on the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.) is important to you, it is highly recommended that you register a domain name that contains your major keywords.
• If instead you are creating a website for a local business, getting traffic from all over the web may not be as important to you. This is because your customers will be local and you may want to grow your brand name in a specific area.