How to Buy Website Names
If you are thinking of building one or more websites you will need to find somewhere to buy website names. A website name is also referred to as a domain name or as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) in web terminology and is basically an address such as www.websitename.com or www.websitename.net etc.
Before you can have a website on the internet you need to decide on a website name that is suitable and is a name not already used on the internet. Start by creating a list of possible website names and then go to a website where you can check and buy website names. If you are buying a website name for a business it will be especially important for you to decide on the good domain name to give your business the best possible chance of success on the Internet. It is a good idea to have your website name end in .com as this is the most common ending to a domain name, but there are other endings you can choose such as .net or .org or .biz etc.
There are a lot of companies from which you can buy website names but to save time you might like to check out www.NameCheap.com
and www.GoDaddy.com 
which are two popular sites from which you can buy website names.
Buying a website name is not very expensive but one thing you need to remember is that when you buy a website name you only pay to use that name for a period of time such as a year and at the end of that time you will get a reminder to renew your domain name registration for another year or more.
To have a website on the Internet you will also need web hosting. Web hosting is basically disk space and software on a computer system that is connected to the Internet, for more information on this topic check out our article on Web Hosting. You will build your website in your web hosting account. When you have obtained your website name and web hosting you will need to make sure people can find your website on the Internet. To do this you will need to set-up the DNS (Domain Name System) values where you bought your website name.
You can simplify this process a little by buying Web Hosting that also includes a domain name, many companies do this but again to save time you might like to check out Lunarpages.com for web hosting that includes a domain name.
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