Video 2 - How To Get Your Own Domain Name

by Gideon Shalwick on January 23, 2008 · 33 comments

Inside video 2 of this series, discover how easy and fast it is to get your very own domain name for your new blog or website…If you thought it was hard, and maybe even impossible, watch this video and be convinced that you can do it for yourself too!All the best!Gideon Shalwick

Tagged as: domain name

{ 25 comments }

Richard Cox April 14, 2008 at 2:56 pm: Videos 1 & 2 are really good, no nonsense, simple info to understand
Sarv007 June 28, 2008 at 10:16 pm: what is a domain name ?
how to register? Choose?
now i can answer These better(just kidding) from gideon Bcoz of these video tutorial…
really a good job u r doing from that end.
newbies like me really need this type of guideince …..
Gideon Shalwick July 15, 2008 at 2:31 am: Hey Sarv007

Glad the videos could help you out!

Gideon Shalwick
http://www.GetYourVideoOnline.com
Robert Kennedy July 25, 2008 at 10:45 am: Gideon, you have done a fantastic job with these videos. I absolutely love them. I look up to you and yaro as mentors, and hope to one day have the same success. With the quality content you guys have put together there is no doubt you will be receiving some viral traffic. I want to send everyone I know to this site. Obviously I am a big fan.
Gideon Shalwick July 25, 2008 at 6:20 pm: Hey Robert

Thanks for your nice comment!

Glad you love the videos and happy for you to tell as many people about them as possible
Viral traffic would of course be fantastic!

Gideon
kirin August 12, 2008 at 1:16 am: Thanks for the video.
That’s easy to understand even for a beginner like me.
I have a question.
Does it make any difference between registering a domain name at the site you recommend or at any other site offering the same service?
The thing is, to me it’s a lot easier to do that in Japanese at Japanese site because I have to read & understand terms & agreements beforehand.
To read them in English is a great task compared to my mother language, and I’d like to do that in Japanese as long as there makes no difference in SEO or page rank or whatever possibly in the future just because of my choosing Japanese site at this moment.

Same concern is also for hosting server.
What if I chose the one offered in Japan? My blog will be in English and directed for non-Japanese readers, but for the same reason as above, it’d be much easier for me to choose the service in Japanese than in English because I’m so scared of agreement (as it’s always threatening me with explaining the least happening worst case). But if this one wrong choice makes me suffer from SEO or anything in the future, I should take good enough time to tackle English site.

Sorry for long writing, hope you get what I mean and could answer this…
Gideon Shalwick August 13, 2008 at 3:03 pm: Hi Kirin

Thanks for your comments and questions. Here are some replies:

It’s not essential that you use the same domain name and hosting service that we recommend. You’re free to use whatever service that you feel most comfortable with.

However, please note that we wont be able to give you any support for questions related to the services other than the ones we recommend.

All our videos and future tutorials assumes that you will have used the services that we recommend. So, in that sense, it would definitely make it easier to follow the videos if you use the services we recommend.

But if you think that you’ll be able to live with the differences between the services that you would like to use, and the services we recommend, then you should be just fine.

All the best!

Gideon Shalwick
Kirin August 15, 2008 at 4:56 am: Hi Gideon,

Thanks for your prompt & kind advice!
OK, I understand what you say.

I’d be willing to check out the rest of the videos based on the service you recommended this time.

Thank you.
Kirin
chris August 29, 2008 at 6:36 pm: that service costs money now…(wordtracker)
Gideon Shalwick August 31, 2008 at 3:42 pm: Hi Chris

You are correct, the Wordtracker service does cost money.

But their free keyword tool does not cost a cent. Here’s the link to the free keyword tool:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Enjoy!

Gideon Shalwick
Lilla September 14, 2008 at 8:52 am: Hi Gideon!
I found a .com domain name that I REALLY like but it’s been taken. I want to use the plural version of it which IS available. The singular domain that is taken has just been parked for 2 years - no website on it except for parked page. What if any, are the repercussions of my using the plural version of a taken domain name? Thanks much!

p.s. I was watching some other videos of yours about making videos, but I’ve seemed to have lost the link. Can you forward me the url?
Gideon Shalwick September 15, 2008 at 6:42 pm: Hi Lilla

Using the plural of another domain name could hold both advantages and drawbacks:

Advantages:

If someone wants to visit the other site and accidentally types in the plural instead of the singular form, they would automatically visit your site. That is, you could get some extra traffic as a result.

Disadvantages:

Our own target marketing could type in the singular form of your domain name. In which case they would go to the wrong website. This could of course be confusing for them, and could cause the other website to get the traffic you’re supposed to be getting.

So, they kinda cancel each other out. I cant see anything wrong with getting the plural of the other domain name.

Talk soon!

Gideon Shalwick

PS: The link for the videos is at http://www.GetYourVideoOnline.com
moneca December 28, 2008 at 10:59 pm: hi gideon and yaro,

it has been a busy xmas season and i want to now get on with my blogging tutoring. i signed up for a monthly course with you but i have lost the train of how to get on board. is this the class i paid for or is it a more interesting class. i know i signed up for a $27 cost that would go to $54 after a certain time. can you please assist me in find that class.
irene March 31, 2009 at 7:03 pm: your video is very nice since it’s really simple for beginners like me, how ever it is very slow to download.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
April 1st, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Hi Irene

Thanks for your nice feedback
You may need a faster connection to be able to stream the videos faster.

Have you tried it on a different computer with a better internet plan?

Best regards

Gideon Shalwick
Aditya May 26, 2009 at 10:42 pm: Quick note - a domain name can’t contain underscores by rule. Only hyphens are permitted.

I think I’d like to challenge the fact that you don’t recommend hyphens in a domain name. Sometimes, hyphens make the domain more readable. There have been many occasions where this-is-my-blog.com has caught my attention more than thisismyblog.com (these are examples of course and may or may not exist). Even Yaro’s blog’s domain name has a hyphen.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
May 28th, 2009 at 3:24 am
Good point Aditya

You are free to use whatever you want for your domain name. The things inside the video are only suggestions for what we think is best and it’s certainly not the only way of doing things.

Whatever works for you really
Gideon Shalwick
Lindsay June 10, 2009 at 8:02 pm: Hi,
Your videos are fantastic but for some reason No. 2 ends at 2m12secs on my computer. Others play great. Any solution?

I tried to notify this through your contact @ support link but google said they were unable to locate address.
Thanks again for awesome content.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 1:08 am
Hey Lindsay

Ok…

Have you tried the steps inside our help section?

http://becomeablogger.com/help.html

Give that a go and see whether that fixes it for you.

Just let me know if it does not work out for you ok?

Best regards

Gideon Shalwick
Mark June 30, 2009 at 11:39 am: Great video(s) but they keep on playing and stopping frequently. Can’t get to follow the lessons clearly. Tried the trouble shootings suggestions but nothing worked.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Hey Mark

Have you tried viewing them on a different computer yet?

It could also be your internet connection. You’ll need a good broadband connection to watch the videos easily.

All the best!

Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
lucas August 7, 2009 at 1:23 pm: Just a few questions:

What are the differences between the options: personal, business use, speculation, client, other?

Can you not simply purchase a domain name outright or do you have to repurchase every year?

Is there a reason you do not recommend other services such as godaddy or others? I mean, what is the essential difference or the reason for your recommendation?

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
August 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Hey Lucas

Thanks for your questions…

About the options, I don’t think it matters too much which one you choose. As far as I can tell, NameCheap only uses that to collect some statistics about their users. So, no big deal.

You normally pay for a domain name per year. I have not come across the option of simply paying once, but there may be services like that. Not sure.

We recommend NameCheap because they are reliable and easy to use. We try to stay away from GoDaddy as much as we can because of some horror stories we’ve heard from our other internet marketing friends. Also GoDaddy likes slapping on all kinds of extra offers and upsells that you don’t need and we’ve found that it just confuses a lot of people.

I ONLY use NameCheap for all my domain names, and I’ve done so now for a number of years and have not had any problems with them at all.

All the best!

Gideon Shalwick
Become A Blogger
gillian September 2, 2009 at 5:34 am: Hi Gideon and Yaro - the wanderer has returned! Two to three months ago I happened upon your “becomeablogger.com” site. At that time I only used the internet to answer emails and read about world news. Internet marketing, blogging, affiliate marketing, keywords etc were all completely new to me, I had never heard of them before. I downloaded your Roadmap to become a Blogger and also your Blog Profits Blueprint to see if I could work out what to do. I felt a little daunted by the size of the printouts and put them to one side and looked on the internet to try and learn a little more about internet marketing, blogging etc. Wow, I have learned a huge amount from that first afternoon but as you say on pages 50 & 51 of Blog Profits Blueprint you can definately suffer from “information overload” and I was definately left confused and paralyzed and sitting there staring at the screen and doing absolutely zilch! I had a bit of a breather from all this newfound information and now feel ready to start reading your reports and watching your tutorial videos. I have watched three of the tutorials so far and I just want to thank you both for making it such a pleasant experience. You are very easy to understand, down to earth and don’t bombard us with technical words that make us hit that brickwall again. Thank you both once again and heres to all us new bloggers out there.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Hey gillian

Awesome to hear that you are back!

All I can say is…

Focus focus focus!

That’s what will help you become successful online

All the best!

Gideon Shalwick
RebeccaH September 9, 2009 at 5:49 pm: Gideon, the brainstorming process was very helpful. I do have a question about choosing my blog topic. I love college football and am passionate about my university football & basket programs. Should I choose college football as a blog topic or can I narrow it down to my college football program? I noticed in one of Yaro’s newsletters, he said his friend Alborz chose cars, which is very broad. So, I wanted to know how broad or narrow the topic could be if I chose college football. Thank you for your help. This is a great site. It’s so focused and very systematic, which is what I need.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
September 11th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hey RebeccaH

I reckon College Football will be a wide enough niche to give you some good traction. You can always narrow down as you go.

Just using your own college football program as a niche may be too limited - depending of course on what exactly you are planning.

But I suggest you just get started, see what kind of feedback you get from people, and then hone in further and further as you go along.

All the best!

Gideon Shalwick
Blackhatsinger November 16, 2009 at 8:06 am: Really nice videos for the beginners to gian knowledge on domains..
Carol December 26, 2009 at 5:50 pm: Video is great, but the sign up button for the Roadmap To Become A Blogger isn’t there. The words about social media are cut in half. Looks like there should be a scroll bar that isn’t there.

Gideon Shalwick Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Hey Carol

I have just sent you a confirmation email so that you can get access to The Roadmap report…

Talk soon!

Gideon
Beata February 7, 2010 at 4:17 pm: Excellent presentation.Very easy to follow for a beginner like me .Thank you
Kelly Frank June 1, 2010 at 2:45 pm: I really think that you are great for sharing this valuable information as it has helped me understand things I could not figure out. This type of information is very valuable to me and it is done in a manner that is easily understood. I have been practicing as I am a newbie. I want make a living blogging as I love it. http://kellysays-kelly777.blogspot.com/ This is another blog I started. I have only been blogging for a very short time.and you taught me in 5 minutes what took me many months to learn. Great Job and I will continue to follow you!
Brian Sklar June 15, 2010 at 11:59 am: IThis is the most well done video series that I have seen yet, even beating ones that I have paid for. Explanations are very clear and to the point and every step is very well laid out so that you aren’t suddenly surprised by a new screen that you have no idea how it got there. Tremendous fellows.