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First of all, what is a domain name? Well, my site’s domain name is Tube108.com. You will need a domain name to have a website on the World Wide Web. Of course, there are free hosting services that will allow you to piggyback onto their own domain name. For instance, if you get a blog through WordPress.com, your domain name will be something like this: yourloginname.wordpress.com. This is fine if you are running a personal blog or the sort.

However, if you are running a business, it is really worth your while to do your own domain registration. It can help you with brand recognition and help you better rank for a particular keyword in the search engine results, just to mention a couple of the benefits.

It is a little technical to get your website up-and-running this way, but wherever you decide to register your domain, they usually have great, in-depth tutorials and phone support in case you get stuck.

Once you have a domain, you will need a place to host it. Here is an inexpensive place to do just that: website hosting.

As I said, they will walk you through this, but just to prepare you, I must say this: it takes a little bit of doing to link your registered domain name and your web hosting service. When you log into the control panel at the place you registered your domain name, you will have to change the so-called “name servers.” There are usually a couple of name servers listed by default. You will have to replace these with those that the web hosting sent you in their welcome email.

The changes usually take place in a few minutes, and not more than a couple of hours. After that, your account is linked to the domain name you have purchased.