It’s easy and fast to buy a domain name as soon as you find it available. But there are some best practices for choosing a good domain name:

Length. Keep it short. Two to three words is ideal.

Simple. Don’t use any lengthy or hard-to-spell words.

Keywords. Include a keyword from your niche. For example, if you sell coffee beans in Seattle, try Seattlecoffeebeans.com.

Avoid numbers. Numbers are hard to remember and make everything more complex.

Brand name. Choose a domain with your brand name in it for maximum recognition.

No, once you register a domain, you cannot change it. However, you can purchase another domain name and move your website there.

As said above, a domain name is like your website's street address, whereas web hosting is like your website's actual home — where all the files, images, and other info actually lives. Your site needs both an address and home to be up and running, but they are definitely two different things.

I don't know, is it? Let's check together! To do a domain name search, go to the top of this page, enter your desired domain name in the search box and click "Register domain" to find out its availability and the amount it'll cost to register the domain.

Our domain search tool also helps you check out other available domain name extensions or variations that are available, such as yourwebsite.net or yourwebsite.org.

Buying a domain name begins with our domain name search tool at the top of this page. Once you find an available domain name, you can purchase it, register it, and ensure it's pointed to your hosting account.

To put it simply: yes, yes, and yes.

To put it a little less simply: When your domain is registered, you're required to maintain a publicly viewable WHOIS database that displays all your contact details — including home address and phone number. This puts you at risk of spam and identity theft (yikes).

Luckily, you can keep your info hidden from the public eye by opting to use POPCORN IT's Domain Privacy Protection. Interested parties will still be able to contact you if they so please, but your identity will remain anonymous — aka super top secret.

Yes, once you have purchased a hosting plan with POPCORN IT, the process of transferring a domain is easy. Simply follow the in your control panel to make the transfer and begin using your domain name from your POPCORN IT account.

TLD stands for top-level domain. It is the final component of a domain name, like .com.

ccTLD stands for country-code top-level domain. It is a subcategory of TLDs used to identify a particular country – for example, .co.uk, .de, .mx, and .fr are all ccTLDs.

gTLD stands for generic top-level domain. gTLDs are the most common type of domain name, in part because this category includes .com domains, which have more registrations than all ccTLDs combined.

Historically, the main gTLDs were .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, and .mil, but the number of available domain extensions has been expanded with the addition of TLDs like .online, .xyz, and .name.