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Tips for choosing a domain - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress: Workflows
Tips for choosing a domain
- [Instructor] There are two crucial parts to any website, no matter what service you want to use. One part is hosting, which we'll talk about later, the other part is a domain, which is the web address that people will use to get to your server. No matter what hosting service you use, you will always need to make sure you choose the right domain name. Here are some tips to make sure you buy a good one. First, let's do a quick primer on domains. Servers make websites available for public view. That website gets an IP address, or a unique number assigned to your website. Think of it like a mailing address or a phone number. Since these numbers are not very easy to remember, you can purchase an easy to remember name called a domain, or a URL. Usually, you can purchase domains from the same place you get your hosting, but it's not always recommended, in case one day, you might decide you want to change hosts. If…
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Tips for choosing a domain4m 35s
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