 Claim your name, seven trusted domain name registrars for small businesses. Hey guys, in this video, I'm gonna talk about the top seven domain name registrars and you're gonna wanna listen to this one because this can save you a ton of money, a ton of time, and it can actually help you build your business. Okay, so first off, don't forget to hit the subscribe button down there. Hit that subscribe button. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every single time we do a new video, we, me, every time I do a new video or every single time I go live, because I do that too. That's right, I do go live. So that's something else. So what is a domain name registrar anyhow? That's kinda complicated, isn't it? Well actually, no, it's not. All it is is the name of your website. I own survivalkfood.com. I own jrfisher.com. Matter of fact, I own about 50 of these domain names, but they actually are the building block of your business. So it's really important that when you register one of these, everything is taken care of properly. Now the first step, most of these registrars require that you buy it for at least a year. I'm here to tell you, you wanna buy it for five to seven years. It's not that much more money. And when Google searches sites, if they see that your site is expiring in six months or eight months, they may not be likely to bring your site back as a result for somebody searching on Google. So always make sure that you have about a five to seven year period. Next thing you wanna look at is privacy options. When you're registering a website, the privacy options are very, very important. Initially, they will put your name and address and phone number and everything in there. And somebody can go to whois.com, put in your domain name and they can find out everything about you. They can find your street address if you put it in there. So it's really interesting that people would do that, but the important thing is you wanna mask that. You wanna have private domain registration. That is a little extra fee you'll need to pay, but I highly recommend you do that. And it's also important to pick a good company because if you don't, you've gotta transfer it to somebody else and then you're gonna have to pay domain transfer fees. So your initial picking of that domain registrar should be the one that you plan on staying with. It's not saying that you couldn't move it later, but try to pick one you're gonna stay with. Okay, my number one pick is Shopify. Shopify is also the number one e-commerce platform in the world. I like Shopify a lot. Let's check that out real quick. Shopify is probably one of the best ones. If you've never set up your own online website before even if you have convenience is huge. There's an overwhelming amount of tools and platforms you need to set it up, every component of your website, especially an online store individually. You're gonna need the domain registrar, a server to host your domain, a website design, and most likely email and customer functionality. It's possible to do all this individually, but speaking from experience it gets complicated and it's easy to fall down a rabbit hole pretty quickly. That's why Shopify allows you to get all of this in one place. And when you register your domain with Shopify, it's connected to your online store immediately, which means you won't have to worry about third-party connections or complicated technical setup. I know I have to go through all that because I use GoDaddy, but I have a whole lot of other stores and reasons for doing that. Okay, let's check out my number two pick and that is Namecheap. Let's go over to Namecheap real quick. Namecheap is a good one. It's an affordable option for domain registration. It offers nice web hosting bundle despite touting great customer support on its website. Customer views say that the server is in the best, so you may wanna keep that in mind. It's a really good option if you're looking for a fair price and a package that includes who is, protection, and web hosting. Number three on the list is Hover. Let's go over to Hover and check them out real quick. Hover has been around since 2008, so they're really not that old. I mean, they've been around a little bit now. What's great about it is its simplicity. If all you need to do is register a domain without all the bells and whistles, this is a great option for you. They allow you to connect essential services like Etsy, Facebook, Shopify, and all that. The prices are pretty low. They started like $12.99 a year for dot-com domains and they renew at like $14.99 a year, so they're pretty cheap and they're pretty dependable. The next one you may have heard of, number four is Google Domain. You've heard of that company, Google, haven't you? Let's check them out real quick. Here's your Google Domain right here. They really are no frills, okay? It's really simpler than Hover if that's even possible. A pricing is affordable. It costs less than both Shopify and Hover for dot-com domains. The best part about using Google Domains as you register is that the ease of putting out paid ads. If you're planning to use the Google Ad platform to market your products, Google Domains makes it easy to set up. They also offer built-in email forwarding and 24-7 customer support. And believe me, when you're building these things in the beginning, you're gonna want customer support. I promise you. Number five is domain.com. Let's go over and check them out. Domain.com is known for speed and reliability as a web poster. It also offers a live chat function which can be deeply helpful if you're trying to start a new website, but privacy protection costs extra and pricing is better elsewhere. Domain.com is a good choice for reliable web hosting so it's good for those looking to host their site in the same place that they actually register it. Number six is Dynadot. Let's go check it out real quick. Here's Dynadot. Very inexpensive, actually. It's got transparent and reasonable pricing and simple website design. Dynadot is an all-around good option for web hosting, but what sets it apart is the amount of top-level domains, the TLDs it offers. Top-level domains are the tail of your domain like .com, .co, .shop, et cetera. Dynadot offers hundreds of TLDs so there's a good chance it'll have exactly what you need. Now personally, I like to stick with .com domains. That's just what I want. However, if you want a different type of extension, it's a good resource for you. In addition to that, they're very affordable. They're $7.99 for registrations and only $8.99 a year for renewals. Number seven is Godaddy. Godaddy. Why am I excited about Godaddy? Because I have over 50 websites registered there right now. Like Godaddy because they are dependable. They have great customer support. Let's go check them out real quick. It's probably the most well-known domain registrar. I don't know if you've ever watched the Super Bowl, but man, they used to blanket the Super Bowl with ads. But that's not what makes it the best option. Godaddy is the most expensive of all the domain registrars with high renewal fees and privacy as an add-on. If you wanna go with big, well-known domain registrar, Godaddy is the best choice. Based on the pricing structure alone, it wouldn't be my first choice nowadays, but I started there years ago. It's $11.99 for the first year. And keep in mind, even the best ones are $7.99. So we're talking $4 difference a year. So that's not that much difference. But you're gonna get into transfer fees and all that. That can be $7.99 for a transfer fee, which is kind of ridiculous. Of course, you wanna keep in mind that just registering your domain, all that allows you to do is to use that domain. So when I say I register jrfisher.com, which I actually did in the 90s, pretty smart that I did my name in the 90s. But what that does is that allows you to use that domain. Nobody else can use that domain. Maybe if I didn't have jrfisher.net, they could get that or jrfisher.biz or something like that. But I own jrfisher.com. That's my domain. That doesn't allow me to build a website. So once I've got the domain, and it gets kind of confusing, but all you're doing is buying the rights to use that name. You don't even own that. You gotta keep paying for it. So you don't even own it. But once I bought that, then it gives me the right to actually do a website. So if I wanna do jrfisher.com, which I do have, you wanna check that out. But if I do wanna do jrfisher.com, then of course I'm gonna have to pay for hosting. I'm gonna have to pay for web hosting. And that means the ability to actually put my website up every single month. So that's gonna be an additional cost there. So you've got your domain registration, and then you've actually got your hosting. Then you're gonna have emails. So if you want emails, mail at jrfisher.com or support at jrfisher.com, that's gonna cost you more money with some of these services. GoDaddy has a program, and I have a whole lot of different emails, so I'm okay there. But you wanna look at each individual one and see how much more is it gonna cost me to have a lot of emails. Now you may say, well, I just wanna have support at jrfisher.com. You'll be surprised. You're gonna end up with training at jrfisher, support at jrfisher. Then maybe you have different employees there, Bob at jrfisher and Jenny at jrfisher. Those emails can pile up pretty quickly. And as they pile up, so does the bill. So you wanna think about that. So don't just think about registering your domain. Think about all the other costs that are gonna be added onto this when you're trying to calculate all this. And also think about the ease of using these companies. Like I know GoDaddy charges me a little bit more. I'm well aware of that, but I know I get really good support. And I know every now and then they have really good deals where I get 20% off or 30% off. And that brings down the cost because I have more websites. Now some of these will have bundled in services. I would recommend you looking at all those packages on all those providers that I gave you. And are there other providers out there? Of course there are. Are there other good providers out there? Of course there are. I think these that I gave you are some of the top providers out there. I think they're ones that you're gonna be happy with. They're gonna be dependable. And I feel good about telling you about them, okay? I don't think any of you are gonna go to one of these domain registrars and say, oh my God, JR was so wrong about this. This is a horrible company. You won't find that. You're gonna find that they're all good no matter which one you select. Now you may have other questions about building your website, about making money online, about e-commerce. And if you do, I wanna get those questions from you. I wanna help you out. So just post those below in the comment section. When you post those below in the comment section, I'll swing back by there. I'll find your questions and comments and I'll do my best to answer each and every one of them. If you liked this video, do me a favor, give me a thumbs up, put a comment below. If you liked the video, put that in there. 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