Register or verify your domain

Your domain is your permanent address on the internet — the name everything else is built on. Registering it means leasing that name from a registrar. This is the literal foundation of your online presence.

You'll carry this choice for years — it's on every card, link, and search result. A clean, memorable name compounds in your favor; hyphens, misspellings, and odd extensions quietly cost you trust and clicks forever. Get it right once.

How to do it

1. 1
   Choose the name with the long game in mind

   Favor your exact brand in .com — still the most trusted. If taken, try yourbrand-[city].com. Avoid hyphens, numbers, and misspellings. Shorter and sayable beats clever.
2. 2
   Register through any reputable registrar

   Use whichever registrar you prefer — common solid choices include Namecheap, Porkbun, GoDaddy, Squarespace, and Cloudflare. Compare the renewal price (not just year one), then turn ON auto-renew immediately — a lapsed domain can be lost to squatters.
3. 3
   Point DNS to your host

   Wherever your DNS is managed, add the records your host gives you — usually A/AAAA records or a CNAME. Changes take minutes to ~48 hours to propagate.
4. 4
   Enable WHOIS privacy

   Turn on WHOIS privacy at your registrar (usually free) so your name, address, and phone aren't published publicly in the domain registry.