How to choose a spa salon or boutique domain name
Ideally your would want it to reflect your spa salon or boutique business name or site content. A unique and concise name that is easy to say, remember, and spell will be your best choice. (For example, the site to the left is allaboutthemoney.com.au as the owner of the site, Julianne Dowling, has wrote the book "All About The Money Honey").
Use letters, numbers, and hyphens in your domain name. Spaces or other symbols don't work. If your first choice is taken, rearrange the word order, add hyphens, or using abbreviations to come up with a unique alternative.
Think VERY carefully about your domain name before you spend you time and money promoting it. If you domain name is unique, you will probably want to purchase as many conbinations as you can afford to prevent others leveraging off your success. However, no matter how many you buy, there will always be someone who finds something close and uses it.
Carefully Select Your Extension/Suffix/Web Space
There are a plethora of weird and wonderful domain extensions available to you such as .com, .com.au, .net.au, .org.au , .tv, .info, .gov .nu and so on. However, some of these work better than others and are more memorable at the same time. It is important to understand that some extensions also have restrictions such as .gov is reserved specifically for government websites. The .com domain name extension is the best by far, because it is the most widely used although it can be hard to get the name you want, and in Australian we use .com.au. If you have a business that services your local area, it is preferable to use .com.au unless your locality is in the title.
For example:
- yourname.com.au
- your-name.com.au
- yn.com.au
Register your spa salon or boutique domain name
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If your client base is mostly local (Australia) you'll want the .com.au name. For example yourname.com.au. You may also want to secure other "spaces" such as .net.au, .biz, .com etc to ensure other businesses can't leverage off you marketing and brand name. You can simply redirect all the other spaces to .com.au
To secure your domain name, submit the little form below, which will take you to Melbourne IT, which is our choice for effective and secure web registrations and hosting. Before you register, you need to ensure that the name is free. If it isn't, you can sometimes contact the owner and buy it, or else choose a similar name to register.
You can register your domain annually, but you can save lots of money if you register for more than one year, so if you have a long term online plan, then it's a great idea.
Arrange website hosting for your spa salon or boutique
Your website consists of files that a browser can read, and you need to arrange somewhere to store these. This is called hosting. To ensure that your site is safe, you'll want to ensure that you choose a reputable hosting company, that offers lots of space, an easy to use control panel and lots of support. Remember, while you need to be cost conscious, don't use price to select a hosting company, because you could end up with an unreliable site.
If you would like Blossom to arrange your hosting, we are more than happy to help you out, as we get good prices through our provider, and we've already done the research for you.
spa salon or boutique Coming soon page
Once you have registered your domain name, arranged for website hosting, you may want to put up a customised "Coming soon" page with an email link or contact form to collected email addresses and contacts of people to inform once you go live.
For our client spa salon or boutique checklist -website design, click here...
