Hey, welcome back to the Six Figure Mastermind. Today, we're going to talk about
how to buy a GoDaddy domain. It's not as intimidating as you think, so stay tuned.
GoDaddy is a beautiful place to get your domain and even some hosting on your
website. So I love using GoDaddyThey're a great website. There's lots of
different servers out there. This is the one that I have used. So all you need to
do is pull up another website right next to this video and I can just walk you
through this step-by-step. So what you're going to do is go to godaddy.com just like
you see on the screen right here. G-O-D-A-D-D-Y dot com. It's going to bring you to
this page right here. Now GoDaddy and a lot of other, in fact all other web
hosting and domain hosting sites are going to tell you whether or not your sites
already taken. If it is, they have one of two options for you. The
first option is you just rename your web site to something else and the second
option is if that domain happens to be for sale, you can buy it. Now, typically
buying a domain on GoDaddy is going to be very, very inexpensive. It's typically
going to be very cheap unless it was owned by someone else first, they bought it and
they're reselling it. Sometimes, that can happen with popular names, popular ideas,
if someone will go and buy all the domains and then mark them up and
resell them. That just happens. So it behooves you to check it out as soon as
possible to see if that domain is taken. If your domain is something unique like
your name and you have a unique name like me like Marianne DeNovellis. Then your
domain is probably going to be free and clear and probably not everyone's going to
be buying it up and reselling it. So just always check and and see what you need.
Now, if you look on here on godaddy.,com you'll see that the dot-coms have $11.99
as their price point the net $12.99, dot rocks is $1.99, dot online is $0.99. You
know the the dot-com is the most common. That's your standard, okay? First things
first, is what you're going to do is go and find your perfect domain name. So if you
say, isellwatches.com, that's going to search and my guess is that's already
going to be taken. isellwatches.com is taken. So one, here's what to do.
Okay, this is one that's been bought and is available for resell. We contact
the current owner on your behalf. If it is for sale, we do all we can to get it
for you and that's going to cost you not even the website, but $69.99 per domain
plus commission that's if it's for sale. Now on top of that, you don't even know what
the sale price is going to be. Alright, so be aware of that. You may want to
consider isellwatches.us, isellwatch.com, that one's available. isellwatches.pro
and again, it depends on what you're wanting to build.
The dot com is obviously going to be the most common, the top used in your industry, no
matter what you're doing. Okay, let's try another one. Let's try something unique
like puppiesforsale.com, okay? puppiesforsale.com is taken. How about and
again, if we're going to see the same thing. you're going to be able to contact
the owner and you can buy it from them and do whatever you want. how about
femaleentrepreneursummit.com.
Okay, this one is available. So femaleentrepreneursummit.com is
available. I wouldn't recommend using this because first of all, it's kind of
hard to spell and you're probably going to have some misspellings which means
people are going to miss your website and it's really long. Now, the key to getting
a good domain is it's short and easy to spell. Meaning, if someone hears about it,
they can remember it and go to the website. If someone has to type it in,
they can spell it correctly. Now, let's be honest. Most people aren't going to web
sites organically anymore. That's not the way it works. Most people will go to a
website based on the link they found in a social media post or something on
Twitter or you know something already existing online and maybe even a QR code.
I'm not even sure if those are still a thing but it could happen. So that's not
something you have to worry about so much but you still want it to be catchy,
easy to remember, easy to spell. So you can go from here. Let's say femaleentrepreneursummit.com
is something you want to buy and you can go to add to
cart. Now, you can buy all three in a bundle, .net, .org, .info for 18 bucks.
Totally up to you. I would just usually go with the dot-com, okay?
Once you add that to your cart, you can go to checkout or you can keep on
shopping. When you go to checkout, you have a couple of different opt-ins
options. You can get domains with a free month of a website builder. Now, think of
it this way, you know you're buying a domain and then you need to buy a
website to go on that domain and web and GoDaddy will provide you with the option
to do both. You don't have to however, you can buy just the domain and then use a
different site host or depending on whatever you're running to build that
website on the domain. Now GoDaddy will give you a few different
options. You've got privacy protection. What that means is essentially you're
going to hide your personal name, prevents domain related spam, helps
stop hijacking. That's $7.99 a year. Why not? it's a buck for year. Privacy and
business protection, okay? This is going to have all of that information hidden.
from WHOIS directory. The Domain Ownership prevents accidental
domain expiration, which can happen. You're buying this a year at a time
and if it expires, then it goes back up for sale. So if you buy this, you're
protected from that. So you can do either one of those, let's just say you know, for
$14.99 a year, I would just do it. Okay, create an email address that matches
your domain. This is a huge credibility booster. Now, if you have a website that's
femaleentrepreneursummit.com and you're running maybe some events or
you're putting together some online courses, you could have info@female
entrepreneursummit.com or support@ femaleentrepreneursummit.com, whatever
you want it to be. That's how people get like legit email addresses. This is what
you can do. It's two bucks a month. You decide if that's a good use of your
revenue or not. You can say no thanks or yes please and you can get several
different emails available for that. So this is 5 gigs of email storage plus
email, calendar and sync across all devices. Again, $3 or $4 a month gets you
double the storage or excuse me 10 times of storage or $7 a month gets
all of that yummy stuff. So that's totally up to you.
What you want to do with it. You know we continue with those options and what
that's going to do is total it up for you. So when you're about to checkout, you can
create an account with GoDaddy or if you already have an account, you can sign in
that's totally an option for you. Again, there's up-sales all the time especially
internet marketing world is search engine visibility.
I'm not sure if I would need to invest in that, it's two bucks a month. Again
totally up to you but remember that people are going to be finding websites
usually through you directly if not through your ads on social media. So you
don't always need to spend extra money every month. Even though it's only two
bucks, you don't always need to spend that. Once you ring up you can go through
here and say, "do I want to do two years, three years, five years or ten years. If
you do ten years at a time, it's going to be what $146.90 that's not bad for 10 years
without having to worry about renewing for the next decade. So good plan and
again do it with your budget. You usually don't need office with that. So you know
I would say either one month or just check that one
in the garbage, okay? Because you have Google Docs, right? So after all is said and done,
you've got domain privacy protection, you've got your dot-com registration and
everything at the door for ten years remember, is $359.
You can do it for one year if you want totally up to you. If you did it for
ten years, it'd be thirty one bucks for everything. If you do it for
one year at a time, it's 28 bucks. You know, just decided what you need.
Decide what you need. Now at 31 bucks per year divided by 12 months,
is a lot less than $28 divided over you know, you just have to
decide what you need. Okay, it's very, very simple. Now, once you purchase your
website from GoDaddy, I want you to go over to our other video and check out
what to use GoDaddy for and how you build your website and how to do all
that fun stuff. It's really very easy once you get on the interface but check
out our video and we'll show you how to do all of that from A to Z. I hope that
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