In the age of social media, it is very crucial to have a domain name, which is same as your social media username. For example, let me assume that I'm buying a domain name called Indian t shirts, right, or amazing Indian t shirt. I should make sure that the user name in Facebook is also available so that I can create a page which is similar of same to my domain name. Having a diverse social media and a domain name is highly, highly recommended. So let's go to a website called named check. So what does name check do?

Name check, as the name suggests, checks not only the availability of a domain name, but also checks whether the social media user names are available for the same domain name. So let's give it a spin. Amazing t shirts, do not hit.com dot n or anything. Let's see what's available. Let's hit search. We can see that.com is not available dotnet is not available we have.org.co dot biz.

So these are all called domain name extensions. so.com domains are a rarity, meaning like there are thousands or hundred thousands of websites on the internet with.com. Hence these extensions have been created. And also they help you to be specific. For example, if you're creating a platform for mobile apps, right, you can buy a domain name saying that amazing mobile apps dot mobi, or you are a business right you can create amazing t shirts dot biz book yet again, you can see that Facebook is not available YouTube is available. Twitter is not available and Instagram is not available.

If you're starting up an e commerce store. Always remember that you need to make sure you get the same usernames in all these for Instagram is amazing when it comes to marketing your merchandise such as t shirts, mugs or anything Because it's more visual, Twitter has become the de facto customer service platform for not only American companies but a lot of Indian companies, you can get faster results by tweeting to an Indian firm rather than calling them up on the call center. YouTube is vital because it is the largest video platform on in the world. And you will be able to upload examples of people wearing your dresses or t shirts or you know using your products. And Facebook is the mothership. That is where a lot of people from India are online.

A lot of people across the world are online and Facebook is going to be the mothership. So let's assume that your domain name XYZ business.com is not available. Don't fret. Let's go to name mesh.com. So what is name mesh, so name mesh gives you iterations of your domain name for example, it gives you some fixes, it gives you prefixes which you can attach to your domain name. For example, if you look at apple.com I'm hundred percent sure apple.com is not available.

But I can add a suffix to it saying that I apple.com or the apple.com or my apple.com, etc. So let's give it a spin amazing t shirts. Again here do not enter the domain name extension. And let's give it a spin. Now it's scanning across the internet and giving you various options. And you can see that amazing t shirts.com is not available like name check shoulders, you can see some button called check who is over here.

So there are certain people who actually make a business out of buying domain names and reselling them. For example, shaadi.com was not bought by the creator of shaadi.com. In fact, it was held by someone else, and shaadi.com founder paid some X amount to buy the domain name from the person and use it. That's pretty much what this check who was is so if amazing t shirts.com is actually being used, then Tough luck getting the domain. But if someone is just holding the domain to sell it, then you'd be able to negotiate. And that's a complete different ballgame.

We'll get into it in a completely different course Currently, we will not be looking at check who is so amazing t shirts.com is not available. So let's come down to the SEO column over here, we can see that the amazing t shirts.com is available. This is not so different than our domain name, it does not make a significant difference. You are just adding the article to it. So let's go back to name check. Always remember, hit refresh, so that the entire page gets reloaded so that we'll be able to check again, and we're gonna type the amazing t shirts.

Again, we can see that Facebook is not available. We have the.com domain, we have YouTube, we have Twitter, and Twitter is showing a yellow symbol. So what is the Meaning like you are not using debt as a domain name limit you have it sorry, username limit your head. For example, Twitter has a maximum of only 15 characters for a domain name. So I think we need to drop something. We need to drop something.

Let's go back named mesh and search. Indian t shirts. Yep, here we have again, though Indian t shirts calm is available. Let's come back to name check it a refresh the Indian t shirts. And we can see that we have majority of it. If we have majority of it, no problem Twitter, we can always cut it down or do something about it.

But we have all three available and we have the domain name available. So we head over to www.koco.com. So why do I select GoDaddy? GoDaddy is is amazing. They've got excellent customer care support when they're very, very localized that is India specific. And also they've got great deals.

And you'll be able to integrate a host of third party plugins such as you know, Google Maps. Also, if you want to integrate some SSL certificates, which we will be requiring, if your once your store starts picking up a lot of traction, and we will be liquid requiring a lot of host of other third party plugins, which will basically make your website better and it is a one click host. So you don't have to do a lot of stuff which other not so prominent hosts have. And it's amazing. So always such as GoDaddy. So what was the domain name again?

So this is Indian, not this sorry. Yeah, the Indian t shirt. We go ahead and we hit Search domain. We can see that the Indian t shirts is just available for 99 rupees. And I'm not going to buy this domain name because I to not want to start a website called Indian t shirts calm, it's pretty simple. I'm not gonna insult your intelligence from here by how to actually buy something on the internet because you are going to be creating an e commerce store.

So it's pretty simple. From here on, you create an account, you add it to the cart, and you enter all the relevant details. And pretty much you're good to go. There are a lot of options such as in integrate free website builder, protect your privacy and everything. Right now we don't need any of it. We are building our website.

So all we need is a domain name. And we hit Add to cart and we buy it. So congratulations. You've just bought your domain name. And not only did you get your domain name, you got social media names which are similar to your domain name.