Domain Names - Long or Short?
You can buy several domain names and have them point to the same website. I did this on my cindycullen.com site - I also have cindycullen.org, cindycullen.net, and cindycullen.biz and they all point to the same website so that no matter which one someone types in, they get my website. I didn’t want anyone else to get my name and use it for something else.
I also have promised-land-services.com and promisedlandservices.com. The reason I have both of those is because the one with dashes looks better in print but is hard to say in a radio ad or over the phone. The one without the dashes is harder to read. So, I got both and point them to my Promised Land Services site. Now, regardless of what they type in, they still get my site.
I sometimes get long and short domain names. If it’s in print, it’s easier to read and understand a long name, but once they are familliar with your site, they may prefer an abbreviation. So, I also registered plsvcs.com and team-pls.com so that I have shorter names. I could point all those to the same website so that no matter what they remember, they come to my site.
You can point domain names to parts of your site or to other site URLs. For instance, if I want the webhosting part of my Promised Land Services site - http://promised-land-services.com/web-hosting.php to have it’s own domain, then I can point my plwebhost.com domain to that one webpage.
There are many different ways to use domain names and at only $8.95 per domain name per year, it’s an inexpensive marketing tool. You can get inexpensive domain names at my site - http://domains.promised-land-services.com