How to Buy Website & Domain Name Online | Selling and Buying Cheap Websites | Own a Site

Having an own website in Internet can give one so much business exposure that one without having any personal website will never understand. When one decides to have a website then he must follow a certain procedures to buy or own a site. By Googling you will get so large amount of data about web site buying that you will get confused about buying decision. So, I would suggest consulting someone who already own & maintain a site. In this hub, I will try to give a brief overview about buying a website.

To own a website, at first you need to buy a domain name and then store your actual site files into a computer or server, which is called as hosting-that’s all.

Steps of buying a website

1. At first you need to decide which particular domain name (e.g. hubpages, facebook) and what type of root domain name  to buy (.com, .org, .co.uk, .info, .net all are root domain). By combination of your domain name with the root domain name you get the actual unique Internet address, which is also known as URL (universal resource locator). For example, one chooses to buy a domain name called myskyworld.org; at first he needs to be sure that that domain name is free-no one has already registered with that name. In order to check free domain name you can visit any hosting or domain buying sites and query the availability of your chosen name.

2. After checking the availability of the domain, the second important work is to choose a hosting company to host your site. Normally, all the domain selling companies also offer hosing service. Remember it’s better to buy and host your website with the same company.

3. After buying the domain name and hosting, you will be provided with a domain control panel or cpanel user name and password.

4. After log in with your domain name and password you can easily upload your site from your own computer to the hosting provider’s server. For uploading files you can use any FTP server like FileZilla, normally I use built-in FTP of Dreamweaver.

Which root domain to choose?

The purpose of your site decides which root domain need to be bought. For business people dot com (.com) or dot biz (.biz), for networking sites dot net (.net), for organization dot org (.org) etc. Now, anyone can buy .org doman; even I have one.

How much is the cost of a domain name?

The average cost of any domain name will be $7.00 to $15.

How much is the hosting cost?

The average monthly cost of shared hosting is $5 to $6. If you pay for one year at a time you will get some kind of discount. Before buying the hositng plan try to confirm about any special offers oravaiable promo codes of your chosen host company to take the discount advante.

Tips for Website Buyers:

• Always keep the registration related documents and payments in a safe place. Try to keep your registration related emails saved as a draft. This is necessary in order to avoid any unwanted situation about the ownership dispute of your site in case your site get hacked or becomes very popular.
• Try to check the reviews of your hosting company’s service in Internet or from other users.
• After purchase check the whois info of your site to make sure if it is registered under your name & address properly. To check go to who.is and just type your site name to get all the registration info of your site.
• You can check the ping time of our site from dnstools.com. The lesser the ping time (in milliseconds) of site the better-means webpage download time is faster.

Finally, you might think of buying an interesting domain name for selling purpose .There are many website brokers for buying and selling websites in Internet. Sites having interesting name in demand can give you few thousands to even million dollars! Do you know how much was the domain buying cost of business.com? Only $7.5 million (sold in 1999). In 2005, sex.com was sold for 12 million dollars.