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How to Buy a Website Domain Name For Cheap
If you want to start your own website, the very first thing you need to do is buy a domain name, a domain name is the website address. So in this case, godaddy.com, that's the domain name. So we want to place where we could buy the best possible domain name for the best price and through all these years of buying domain names, I've been buying domain names for 15 years and go, daddy has been by far the best and cheapest place to get.
It is super easy. So I highly recommended it. I have about 20 or so domain names on here. I'm going to show you how to get one in this video. Using the cheapest way. I have a link right on top of the description. Just go ahead and click that. That'll take you to go daddy, where you get, get the best discount and the follow the steps after that, the very first thing is using the search bar here.
You got to see if the domain name that you want is available. So all you got to do is type into a domain name and you can put.com or not and then it starts searching for it. And here on the left side, you have all these different extensions you could search for you see net.com. I recommend starting what.com, but nowadays it's not that big of a deal if you don't get.com, but that is usually the first thing you want to get.
It's usually more expensive than the other ones, too, as some of them are at a premium price. So, check here to see if they're available and if it's not, you could see some of these other options that it's going to give you. It's a great way to see and get some ideas. If the one you want is taken, but this is where you start by searching it.
That's the very first step. So I'm going to press add to cart here on the one that I was looking for it's available is actually at the minimum price. So there is no. Premium prices on some domains are premium because they been searched for or GoDaddy, deems them more valuable. So those are going to be a lot more than the base price here, but this was a base price.
I recommend searching around, finding this base price. Go ahead and add it to the cart and once you're done, go ahead and continue to cart. So that's going to take us to the next step. Where are we going to decide what we're going to do here? So here you got a couple of options. You got privacy protection or you could say, no, thanks that skipped the privacy protection, the privacy protection actually protects your identity. So if people look up who this domain belongs to, it won't show up publicly. If you say, no, thanks. It will show your name and your address and your information. So I recommend this if you on and get spam, or if you don't want people to know that this is your domain, it's worth paying the money for it.
I have it on some domains that I use publicly and not on other personal domains. Then you come out to the checkout page and as you could see that little app I have right on top, it's called honey is a Google Chrome plugin. I have another video body if you're curious, but he applies coupons automatically.
So just now. I got a big discount just from honey applying a coupon. I don't have to search for a coupon code and by default is putting five years. So depending on how long you want this domain, are you trying a new website? You want to see how it is. One year is fine. You are starting a business that you want to long-term domain five years is great against search engine optimization and ranking on Google.
Google looks at those things. So if you have a domain for five years, they know you're more serious. So again, decide what you want to do here. In this case, I'm going to go with a two year. I'm going to apply my honey coupon here, and I'm going to get a good discount here on this domain registration. Again, I'll leave a link in the description for the video on how to use the honey Chrome plugin and you'll get these coupons applied. I saved a lot of money on different things that I buy on a lot of different websites. It automatically flies coupons for you. So now, if this is your first online GoDaddy, you got to go ahead and press sign in or create an account in this case, creating an account. If you don't have an account.
So go through that account creation process. Once you're done setting up your account, it's going to bring you to the billing information. So going and typing your billing information, make sure the coupon code is still applied. Sometimes when refreshing this page, the honey coupon code might disappear.
So make sure you, we apply that here to get the best discount, fill out the billing information and go to payment and after you type in your payment, it takes you to the last page where you just got to press complete purchase, and then you have purchased your domain name. That's basically the entire process.
Then it'll take you to this page where he's going to ask you a couple of questions about your website and this is if you want to host a website on their platform. So if you don't want to, and if you're just buying the domain, you're done here, but if you want to get hosting, the hosting is the next process right now.
You just have a domain name, but if you go to that address, that domain name, nothing happens. So at this point, you should get a hosting package. I do mine through WordPress. It's a little bit more of a complicated process than what they do here off the shelf hosting. But in that case, if you want to go to the WordPress process, I'll make another video and here you could even press use my domain. I'll walk you through how to build a website, how to set up your email account. So these are the next steps in the process. This video was all about setting up a domain admin and getting everything started. But after that, you should set up your email address and your hosting, and then your website.
I hope you found this useful. If you want to see any more steps past the domain process, just let me know in the comments. Please subscribe to this channel for a lot easier to follow tech videos, just like this one and I hope to see you on the next video. Thanks so much for watching.