Network Solutions has an interesting tool that will be of special interest to many churches: the domain name scorecard.
Church consultants highly recommend registering multiple domain names for churches and for the pastors, including additional extensions (.com .net etc.), common misspellings of names, and descriptive domains (like levelcrosshousechurch.com for example) While some churches don’t bother, others would like to but don’t quite know where to start.
Network Solutions has a great tool in this domain name scorecard… you plug in what you’ve already done and some keywords about the website (It’ll work for any site), and within a few seconds you get concrete suggestions AND the opportunity to register those domains. How cool is that?
For this site, I discovered that although .com and .org are taken, the .us domain is free. I was also given a huge list of common misspellings of iamhealed.net, like iamheeled.net, iamhaeled.net, aimhealed.net, and so on.
The list of keyword-oriented domains was interesting… everything from christianityhealingblog.com to highpointchristianity.com… why is it that every site that looks at mine assumes I’m from High Point? I’ll have to look into that. It would be neat to have a levelcrossblog.com sort of domain, though.
The tool is great because you can add multiple items to your cart and then register them all at once in one fell swoop (and if all your domains renew at the same time, that’s SO much easier. Just trust me on that one, ok? There’s nothing like managing a dozen domains that all renew at different times of the year and you wonder, “What if I miss one somehow?”
Go check ‘em out!
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