4 Ways to Avoid Losing Your Domain
Our phone rings, it’s a bewildered client. “My website isn’t working”. We check. Everything is ok from our end, but the domain has expired which is preventing their website and email from working. Your domain is your online real estate – an asset. It is the ground on which you build your online business. You […]
Improve your website's reliability by adding a tertiary nameserver to your domain(s)
In order to help improve your OM4 website’s performance and reliability, we have recently deployed a third (tertiary) nameserver. All three of our nameservers are now geographically dispersed, with nameservers in Queensland, Dallas and London. If your OM4 website is accessible via your own domain name (eg yourcompany.com), it is important that you update your […]
Three and Four Word Domain Names
In the beginning, there was the 1 word domain. Nowadays two word domains are the rage. Most domain sales are for two word domains, with a smattering of 3 word domains. But consider this: >4 word search terms became the most popular searches in 2008. 4 word searches convert better than 3 word, 2 word […]
How to Choose a Domain Name that Assists your Online Marketing
I’ve been talking to a lot of clients lately about domain names. My last post was about the mechanics of registering and managing domains. But its worth discussing how to choose them as well. What makes a good domain name for a business? First and foremost, you need to consider how you want to present […]
Domains 101: Buying domains and updating name servers
Run a business online, then you definitely need to buy and manage your own domains. You can outsource a lot of things. But not your domains. (Or your email list, but that is another post). Business owners need to control: purchasing domain names renewing domain names using name servers to control where Internet traffic (web […]