10 Key Reasons to Get Your Own Domain Name
There is a service you may have heard of, TinyURL, that will assign a short little URL when you want to provide a short link instead of a 46-letter one. Now, that can be handy for forwarding links to pages that are deep down in the directory, especially on Twitter or other microblogging tools that only allow a limited number of characters. But some people actually use TinyURLs for their businesses. They also use the free hosting offered by their Internet Service Providers (ISP). Good idea?
Definitely not. From the first you get a URL that reads like random characters, and from your ISP you get one that lets you promote them first. You get few of the benefits of a real domain name. A lot of affiliate marketers use them, because their other choice is something like allnaturalgoo.com/biz/home/8992. None of these gives you a personalized business address that can work in your favor. If you’re an affiliate marketer, or starting a new business, and want a fighting chance on the Internet, you need to get your own domain name.
A domain name sets up an address for people to “stop by” and do business, and they are inexpensive, too. There are a lot of reasons to get your own domain name, but here are the Top 10 reasons to get your own domain name, in no particular order.
