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1. (Intro) Domain names in 2023: everything you need to know: Hello, my name is Martin, and in this course you
will learn a lot about the meanings in the
following 30 min or so, you will learn what
is a domain name, domain name registrars, TLD, and other related terms. How to find out if a certain domain name is
available for registration. How to register a
new domain name? Find the best prices
and offers available. How to generate ideas for a new domain name and
check its history. How to set up a custom e-mail
address of your domain. How to set up a basic
webpage on your domain name. And many, many more topics are touched here in this course. So let's wait no more
and start the course. See you.
2. What is a domain name, what are the prices and other basic terms: Okay, so let's start this course with a simple
and basic question. What is a domain name? And the first place? A domain name is a unique
address for a website. It is a name that you
type into your browser. Right here. I am typing in cnn.com
and it is a domain name. There are a lot of other
examples like google.com, minecraft.net, and so on. In total, there are 350
million domain names registered by now and it
is a big, big number. Another question you might ask, why do I need a domain name? Well, there are millions
of reasons why. The first and the main reason it looks more professional in
the eyes of your customers. You can put your domain
name on a business card, on a video ads, on a t-shirt, and a
bolster wherever you want to promote your
businesses or services. So another good thing is using
a custom e-mail address, like hello at her brand.com, instead of using free Gmail
or Yahoo email addresses. And in this course, I
will show you how to create this type of email Lync, hello at your brand
that gum and forward all incoming emails to your
current email address. So stay tuned. You will be able to have a website and communicate
with your clients. On your website, you
can provide very, a lot of very useful
information, e.g. your contact details, your social network
profiles, and so on. Also, you will prevent
other competitors together. The main you want how to
register a domain name. Registration is done
using domain register. What is that? It is a company or platform where you can
register your domain. The most popular and the most, the biggest domain
registers are Go Daddy, named cheap, named silo, Bergman, Diana dot, and
many, many, many more. They offer basically the
offer the same service, so they are all reliable
and you are safe with them. What is the price
of a domain name? It depends on few factors. Registration price can vary from $1 to more than $1,000 a year. But most common price is
under or around $10 per year. Prices are yearly. Yeah, this is very important. And you can't register your domain for
months, for a week, for a day, or any other time. Timeframe period. Year is minimum,
But you can also extend your domain
registration for two years, for five years, ten years, and so on, but always years. So remember that why the
prices are so different? Well, there are
two main factors. The first one is TLD and I will explain
you what it means. So let's examine the simple, simple domain name,
your brand.com. First gums your
brand in this case, and this part is called domain name or
second-level domain. The other part isn't
dot com and it's called TLD or top-level domain. It is also known as domain
extension or domain ending. So different TLBs have
different prices. So there are three types of TLBs are free categories
that I want you to know. The first one is
traditional ones. Probably you know them. It's like.com.net.org. They were introduced more than 40 years ago
and they are the best. But the problem with them is that many domain
names with the steel, these are already
registered, already taken, and you have to be
original to find a free and available
domain to register. Another category is
country code ELDs. They belong to specific
countries and specific regions like.us is for USA that you use for European
Union and so on. So there are like 200 and
more in this category. And some of those steel, these have their own
restrictions, their own rules. E.g. that US is
only available for US businesses and US residents. So you have to do a research
before registration, registering them, and to see if you can
register them or not. The last category
is new till this, It's like dot XYZ that ninja, that rocks and thousands,
thousands more. And actually this, this category was introduced
like ten years ago. It's relatively new. Most of those tail, these are very cheap, but the websites using them are a bit how to
sell low quality. So I would suggest you to avoid them unless
you find a really, really good name, really
good domain name. And basically we should focus on traditional or
country go till this. If your business
is international. Also there is S DLD
or sponsor TLB, and they are restricted and
not available to the public. A few examples would be
a dot edu for education, for universities, basically.gov for
government, and so on. So the price of the main
name comes to this formula. Tld plus the main register
equals to yearly domain price. So different domain registrars have different prices
for the same TLD. For example.com can cost differently on named Chip on
them settled in on GoDaddy. And in this course I
will show you how to find the cheapest
offers available. So you can buy it cheaply. What symbols can be
used in a domain name? Here we are talking
about the first part, like we saw in the
example, your brand, the main part or second level domain name must start and end with
a letter or a digit. Digit. Like we see, a good
example is google.com, abc123 dot com and so on. You can use underscores, percentage signs plus
sign equals sign. And also very important, no spaces or tabs are allowed. You can use hyphens or minus signs between
letters and digits, but they cannot be in the front or in the end of a domain name. Here you can see
also the examples. The main aims are
case insensitive. It means that it
doesn't matter if you write them uppercase, lowercase, or mixed the letters. They're all the same. Domain length must be 1-63. Symbols, like you can see here. Shortest is xx.com. Yes. The longest is very long, but actually, it is a website
registered on that domain. And also there is
IDM technology. It is also called Bunny code. And using it, you can use a special international symbols
like weakness and Espana. You can see not n but EMEA used, but those are used mostly
in international websites, not an English ones. And also you can use emojis
in your domain name. But I strongly, I
don't recommend you of doing that because many
users can make mistakes. Don't remember precisely
the emoji and so on. So it's better to
avoid them and yell. So let's get started enough of information and if you
have any questions, please write to me
below this lesson. So let's get started.
3. Checking if domain name is available for registration and generating domain name ideas: So what is first? If you want to see
if a certain domain is free and available, open your browser and
type in this address. Instant domain search.com,
and press enter. This tool is really amazing, so I suggest you to
bookmark it instantly. If you have the domain
name on your mind and want to check if
it's read the register. Just type in the domain name
in the first text field. For this course, I will try
to find available.com domain targeting these two
keywords, amazing tutorials. So I will type them in. As you can see, the domain
name is already registered. Actually, it is listed for
sale for about $1,000, but I want a new and
fresh the main aim for around $10 per year. So this domain name is
not an option for me. So the next thing
that I will do, I will open Google Docs and
create new spreadsheet there. You can also use Excel
for this purpose. I will name the columns
like this keyword, one keyword do, then the
last will be named TLD. On the next row, I will
enter my keywords, amazing tutorials.com. Now, I will search for
synonyms for the keywords. For that purpose, I will
use a website called power, these Zara's dot org. There I will search
for synonyms of our keywords, amazing
and tutorials. I will paste them
into a spreadsheet. And if I get new ideas, I will also type them in. So I fill my spreadsheet with
the keywords that I like. And now I will do some magic. I will go to an empty column
and paste in this formula. Don't worry, I will leave this formula in the
description of this video. And also I will share
the spreadsheet as well so you can use it later. This formula will generate all possible combinations
of our keywords. Now we have to check
which domain names from this list are
available and free. And for this purpose we
will use named Chip. Go to Name cheap.com, and there find and click
on the beast mode. Copy and paste the list of domain names that
we have generated. Uncheck, Show, premium, check, Hide and available
and click Generate. Now the system will check which domain names are free
and show them on your screen. Now go back to your spreadsheet
and create a new sheet. In this new sheet, we
will copy and paste only those domain names
that we like the most. It is a list of domain
name candidates. As you can see, we
have successfully built a list of domains
that we might consider. In the next lesson, we
will check the history of those domains and decide
which domain to register. Thank you for watching and
if you have any questions, feel free to ask them in
the comments section. See you in the next lesson.
4. Checking the history of available domains: So in this lesson, we will check the history of our
domain name candidates. Our goal is to find if they were registered in the
best and if yes, what type of website
was set up on them? Our target should be to find a new and fresh domain name or the main aim that already had some good backlinks
on other sites. Try to avoid the main aims which gets spammy
or adult content because it might
hurt your rankings in the search engines
like Google or Bing. So let's get started. Open a new tab on
your browser and type in Hunt expired.com. Hunt expired.com is an expired
domain name search engine that shows you if a domain name was registered in the best type in or copy paste our first
domain name candidate. As we can see, our
first candidate, OMG courses.com, was
registered before. So we have to dig a
little deeper and see what website has been
hosted on this domain. For that, open, a new tab
and type in archive.org. Here we can see historical
copies of a certain website. You can see how it
looked in the past. We typed in our domain candidate and let's wait for
a page to load. As we can see, OMG courses.com
has only one snapshot, so it is a good sign. Probably domain name
was registered, but there were no
active website created. So we can count this
domain as fresh and new. What you can also
do is to check if domain name has any back
links from other websites. For that, open a new tab
and type in link od.com. Scroll to the very bottom and
click on that link checker. Enter a domain name and see
if it has any backlinks. As we can see, there
are no backlinks. This is also a good sign that domain name has
no negative history. Now let's go back to
the spreadsheet and make a comment about
OMG courses.com. Repeat the same procedure
for other domain candidates. Now we have a clearer
picture which domain name would be
the best option for us. In the next lesson, we will find the cheapest
domain registrar and register the domain.
5. Finding the best prices and registering a new domain: So by now, we
should already have a domain name that
we want to register. Let's find the cheapest
options for doing that. Open a new tab in
your browser and type in.com.com.com is a website where you can easily
compare prices between different
domain registrars. There are three categories
of prices here. Nu for registration price, renewal price, and
the transfer price. Renewed price shows you the price of a domain
renewable what we will pay after one year if we want to extend the main inspiration
for one more here. Transfer shows the
price if you want to change our domain
registrar for some reason, usually transfer prices
are lower than renewal. And after one year when
domain name is expiring, we can consider moving it to the other domain registrar
and save some money. But let's stick with the
registration prices now. As we can see, GoDaddy offers
now the best price for us. So click on their price. Type in the domain name you want to register
and click Search. Click, looks good, keep going. You can now log in using other platforms like
Google or Facebook, where you can register a
new account if you want. Once you are logged in, the steps are quite
easy and obvious. At some point you
will have to enter your contact and
payment details. Once you complete all the forms, your domain name
will be registered. In the next lessons, we
will learn how to control our domain name and set
up email forwarding.
6. What to do after domain registration?: So you did it. Now you own your domain name and nobody else can register it. But what to do next? In my opinion, you should set up email forwarding and
a basic website. And for that you
have free options. Option number one,
you can stick with your domain registrar
and use their services. Many domain registrars like
GoDaddy in our example, offers this type of service
for additional cost. It is an easiest and
fastest way to get started. Option number two,
you can search for website hosting provider or a website builder
and do it there. There are thousands
of such services and it is easy to
find one in Google. But these are the
most popular ones. By now in this course, we will not cover this topic because there are too
many options here. Option number three,
you can use cloth. It is a free tool that controls all the
traffic of your domain, but offers free
email forwarding and can make your website
faster and more secure. In my opinion, it's
a must-have tool because it offers so
much services for free. So in this course we will
use Cloudflare. Stay tuned.
7. Nameservers, DNS and Cloudflare: In this course, I want
you to learn as much as possible about domain names
in a short period of time. So I will introduce you to some basic technical
details in this lesson. When talking about domain names, you will hear these
two terms. A lot. Name servers, DNS.
What are they? You see it when you
registered your domain, the domain registrar is responsible for your
rights into that domain. In other words, they
make sure that you are the owner and nobody else can register the
same domain name. But all the traffic that
comes into their domain, like website,
visitors or emails, are controlled by name servers. Name servers. It
looks like this, usually the R2, but in certain
cases there can be more. But every active website
or domain name has them. Depending of the traffic type, name servers return DNS records which tells where the
incoming traffic should go. There are a lot of
DNS record times, but we will not cover them in this course because it
couldn't get too complicated. By now. I want you to know that every act of
domain name has name servers in those names
servers holds DNS records. You have chosen to
set up your website and email on your
domain registrar. You don't have to change
name servers because the main registered
take care of that. But if you want to
use external services like other hosting, website builder, or in
our case, Cloudflare. I will show you how to change
them in the next lessons. What is Cloudflare and
why it is awesome? Author offers a free service to control the traffic
of your domain name. There you can set up an email forwarding for free and they offer a lot of tools to make your website more
secure and faster. Here you can see some of the main benefits that
Cloudflare offers. Free email forwarding,
protection of DDoS, attacks, website speed
optimization, protecting your immune from spam,
and many, many more. In the next lesson,
I will show you how to set up Cloudflare account and how to set up gaming forward into your current email address. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section and we'll be happy to
respond to them. See you in the next lesson.
8. Setup a custom e-mail forwarding using Cloudflare: So in this lesson, I will
show you how to register on Cloudflare at your domain there and set up
email forwarding. Let's get started.
Hoping your browser and type in cloudflare.com. Click on Login. Then sign up. Filling your current
email address password, and click sign up. Wait for a page to load. On the top of the page. Click site. Here, enter your domain
name and click Add site. Scroll to the bottom, choose free, and click Continue. Now Cloudflare is scanning DNS records of your domain name. Wait until it finishes. On the next page you can see which DNS records was
found by Cloudflare. Do not change anything
and click Continue. Now you can see your
Cloudflare name servers. We have to change your
domain name servers to those provided by Cloudflare. For that you have to go
to your domain registrar, to the platform where you
registered your domain. In our case, it is Go Daddy. But if you registered
your domain on different platform
login there and search for change
name servers option. We are now logging into GoDaddy. Once you're logged in, find your domain
name and click DNS. Then scroll down until you find section called Name
Service and click Change. Click Enter my own
name servers advanced. And here we have to copy paste name service provided
by Cloudflare. Clicked save, check the check
box, and click Continue. You did it. You're a name service
has been changed, but it can take some time until they are changed globally. Usually it takes up to 1 h
for changes to be applied. Now let's go back to Cloudflare. Click Done, and
then finish later. Now, you have to wait for your domain name to be
activated on Cloudflare. Usually it takes a few minutes, so refresh the page frequently. You will also receive an e-mail when your domain
name will be added. Once your domain name is added, you will be able to set up
custom e-mail forwarding. Click on your domain name. On the left menu, click Email. Click, get started. On the first text field, you have to enter the custom
email name that you want. In my case, I will type Hello. On the other text field, type in your current
email address. Click Create, and Continue. Now you have to check your
current email and verify it. In my case, it's Gmail. So let's go there. Click Verify E-mail address. Now let's go back
to e-mail setup. In order to enable custom
e-mail forwarding Cloudflare, we'll add some new DNS records. Doing a change, anything, click Add records and enabled. Now let's go to Gmail and test if our custom e-mail is working. Let's send this
letter and provide custom e-mail address
as the recipient. As you can see, email has arrived and your customer
address is working. Congratulations. In
the next lesson, I will introduce you
to Cloudflare S, and we will set up a
basic coming soon page.
9. Create a basic webpage using Cloudflare Apps: In this lesson, I will show
you how to set up our basic and Custom under construction
page on your domain name. For that, we will use a
feature called cloth or apps. You can use Cloud for apps to enhance functionality
or website. They're like plugins or
add-ons to your website. So let's get started. On the left menu, find the
link apps and click on it. Here you can see a variety
of all the apps available, but just a few clicks
you can add a lot of features like contact firms, countdown, widget, embed
YouTube videos, and so on. In this demonstration, I will use an app called self summary. So let's find this app. Before installing the app, you can configure it and preview to see how the website
will look like. For this demonstration,
I picked in the location option for a place. Now it is time for
customization. Enter the text and add
social profile links. And when you complete
click installed. As we can see, the
app was installed. So let's check if it's working. They've been our domain name. Yes, our page was
successfully created. Cluster is constantly
updating their apps, so I'm pretty sure
that in the future, you will be able to create more advanced and
good-looking pages. You can now go back and
add even more apps. Have a nice day and if you
will ever have any questions, feel free to ask them in
the comment section below. Thank you for watching.
Martynas Ki.
