Any person who requires setting up a website will need a domain name for the site, to set it apart from the rest. Many web hosting companies are enticing customers by offering them cheap web hosting and free domain. To fully trap a customer, they sometimes ask the customer to sign up for a full year before being given the free domain.

Provided your account stays active throughout, your domain will be registered each year. If you fail to pay for your account, you can risk loosing your domain or otherwise, it will be transferred to management level where you can be allowed to get another host or address.

Buying the domain separately from the hosting service will cost you an extra 9 pounds per year, more than the 19.99 pounds you could pay if you took both the hosting and the domain as a package. Prior to choosing a domain to register, you need to get a perfect name that will sell your site as a brand. Make it simple to remember, and don’t complicate it with characters like hyphens. To increase the search engine optimization, include your main keyword in the domain name.