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You Can Lock Out Your Competitors And Protect Your Domain Name For $17.85
In 1999, when I was first getting started online, it cost me a whopping $35 US to register one domain name for a year. If that wasn’t expensive enough, I was also forced to register each domain for a minimum of 2-years ($70 US). Ouch!
Needless to say, at those prices, and with my poor financial situation back in 1999, I was very restricted in the number of domains I could register.
Today though, things have changed not only for me financially, but the cost of registering a domain name has dropped to a new all time low of just $5.95 year.
So now, when I register a new domain name for a site that I am constructing, I register a few variations of the domain name to lock out any potential competitors who might want to purchase a variation of the same name.
I just did this when I registered the domain name for my new website about kit cars.
I did this by first finding a domain name that included the keyword phrase “kit car” and registered it. (I.e. kitcarxxxxx.com) example only
Next, I registered the dashed (kit-car-xxxxx.com) version, plus both of the non-dashed versions of the .net (kitcarxxxxx.net) and .org (kitcarxxxxx.org) domains as well. (although I do nothing with it, other than park them)
So, by registering just three extra domain names for (3 x $5.95 = $17.85), you can lock out any possible competitors.
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