Buying domain names is a crucial step to determine the success or failure of a business. Therefor prior to buy domain name you should consider the vital factors on domain name selection. I have already discussed Top 10 vital factors to be considered before buy your domain name in my last post.
After selection of your domain name, the next important step is buying your domain name from a trusted domain name provider. There are hundreds of domain sellers on the current market. But there are best domain providers, that is because of the differences of the services they are providing to the community/customers.
In this post I am going to discuss the factors you must consider before buying your domain name related to the domain seller. In other words I am going to give you the important points that you must look on domain seller. I assure you these domain seller factors are the most important factors before you select your domain seller. If you missed these factors I guarantee that you will end up with suffering. Here we go;
1. How long your domain seller is operating on market
One single most important factor that you should consider prior to buy your domain name is how long that domain seller operating on this business. The companies in long term run in market will have a strong foundation than the newer ones. And older companies have a big customer base than the newer domain sellers. So you can estimate the sustainability of the company by checking the age of that particular company. What we need is long running domain provider for buying a domain name.
2. Registration details and where is it registered
The next most important fact is whether it is a registered domain seller or not. If they are registered, check where they are registered and under which law they are registered. You should select a domain registration company which is ICANN accredited. The ICANN accredited company will provide complete reassurance, since this getting ICANN authorization is not a cheap process.
3. Do they have a Address, Land phone number and a hot line
It is better to know where it located and how to contact them if they close the company suddenly. But it is better to be away from domain name providers who are not having a permanent address and a land phone number. My advice is never buy domain names from a company which don’t have a permanent address and a fixed land number.
4. How is the customer support and after care including online chat facility
No need to explain, customer support is one of the most and must factor you should consider before buying a domain name. Most of the big domain sellers have a better customer support for their customers. But as I said earlier there are hundreds of domain sellers. Most of them do not have a better customer service. Specially after care support is very poor. You should buy domain name from a domain seller who has 24 hour 365 day customer support. Even though most companies say that they have 24 hour customer support, it isn’t the real truth. So be careful while buying a domain name. And it is better if your domain name provider has a online chat platform to communicate. Then you can easily contact the and solve your problems within minutes.
5. Ability to control all the aspects of your domain
Before you buying the domain name you should consider the ability to control your domain. Some domain sellers not provide all the privileges to control your domain name. So be careful. My advice is don’t go for finding a cheap domain, it will causes more trouble.
6. Check whether they have a user friendly control panel
I have seen most of the domain owners complains that the control panel of this and that domain provider is not good and it is too complex. So before you purchase a domain make sure to check the control panel of that domain seller. At lease read some reviews on that particular control panel on web.
7. How much will they charge to transfer your domain
Just think after few months of using your domain you decided to transfer it to another account. Your domain provider will charge for this. So should know what is the amount they are going to charge for domain transferring. I am not going to give you a list of domain transferring rates because the amount they charge will change over the time.
8. What are the other facilities do they provide with domain name
After looking for the about factors you must looked in to the other facilities given by your domain seller. Some are giving free hosting to their customers who are buying a domain name. Some are giving first month free of charge coupons. Some are giving free email accounts for the customers. Like that you should analyse what are the other facilities they will give you alone with your domain name.
9. Do they have a trusted purchasing method to buy domain name
Ultimately now you are ready to buy domain mane from a trusted domain seller. Now the most important fact is whether this seller has a trusted purchasing method or not. Paypal is one of the best and trusted purchasing method. If they have the option for buy a domain through credit card, then you must see whether they have a trusted server certificate or not.
Usually I am looking in to all those factors before I buy my each and every domain name. Usually I am using Godaddy Domain Names and Namecheap Domain Names to register all of my domains. They are 100% trusted services and market giants so far in the domain name selling industry. And Namecheap has a good 24hours customer support via chatting too. So at last what I want to stress you is never forget to check the above factors before buy a domain name.
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