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This step can be quite technical and complicated for users who do not know what they are doing. You should try and contact your hosting company for support with this.

Within your domain registrar’s control panel, you need to find the option that allows you to change the DNS servers. It may be phrased as “Domain Name Server Setup” From there you must enter the name servers of your hosting company. Your hosting company will tell you what they are, usually ns1.hostingcompany.com. You may have to wait up to 48 hours for the changes to take place, then you are all set!

You may first want to read our guide to buying a domain name here.

If you are creating a website for a business the most obvious choice for a domain name would be your company name . However for some companies their name may already be taken. You must think carefully about the name you choose, once you have picked it, you will have to stick with that domain or face confusing your visitors.

Unfortunately most good domain names with the TLD (the extension such as .com,.net)  .com have been taken so you may want to consider regional ones such as .co.uk for the United Kingdom, .de for Germany etc. .net is a good global one. If you are creating a company website, try stay away from the tld .biz or .info. As these are very cheap to register spammers have purchased them and the general public associate them with a scam and it does not look professional enough.

Try keep your domain name short as it is easy to remember. Also try avoid having dashes or plurals in your name to avoid customers. If you must have a name with a plural, register ones that are similar to avoid people registering that one and stealing your traffic.

Make sure that you buy from a reputable comapny such as Godaddy.com, Namecheap.com or enom.com

When you select a domain name, you will have to specify how many years you would like to register it for. When it your domain name is about to expire, the registrar you registered your domain with should send you emails reminding you.

Some TLDs such as .co.uk have a minimum registration of 2 years, most however allow you to register a domain name for a minimum of 1 year.

If your hosting company purchased the domain name for you, contact them about renewing the domain name.

You can check the expiry date of a domain name using a WHOIS tool such as the one provided here.

Domain names are quite cheap. You can get them for less than $15USD. You purcahse domain names from a registrar. Before purchasing a domain name, make sure that they are ICANN accredited. We reccommend GoDaddy or Namecheap.

Godaddy is very cheap however some users have found their support to have long waiting and response times.

Namecheap currently offer WHOIS protection for free and accepts PayPal. however they are very slightly more expensive than other registrars.