Benefits Of Owning A Custom Top Level Domain Name

Overview About TLDs And Reasons Why You Need Have A Custom Domain Name

Before discussing the title of this thread, its important i let you all know what Domain name(s) is/are.

Stay calm, as i put you through all that's required to be acquainted with DOMAIN NAMES.

What are Top Level Domain Names (TLDs)

A top-level domain (TLD) can be defined as is that part of a URL or weblink located to the right of the dot (" . ") after a website URL.

According to Wikipedia, TLDs are one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.

The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is com. Responsibility for management of most top-level domains is delegated to specific organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and is in charge of maintaining the DNS root zone.

Benefits Of Using A Custom Domain Name.

There are lots of benefits attached to obtaining custom domain names which range from increased SEO ranking to Credibility from Customers and subscribers.
Some of the benefits of owning a custom domain name over free domain name will be discussed below.
1) There are high tendencies of increasing your website optimization by search engines such as Google, Bing, DuckDuck Go and Yahoo. Gone are those days where free domain names are crawled by Search Engine Bots and displayed as results.
2) It proves to your customers and subscribers that your are competent enough to run an online business.
For example, lets consider these two scenarios;
> Company-A uses a free domain name such as .tk, .co.cc, ml, .gq.
> Company-B uses a TLD name such as .com or .net.

Both companies decide to publish same  article about PURCHASING DOMAIN name.
Q. Which company do you expect to have a higher click at first glance?
Ans: I guess its Company-B because of its domain name. The domain name alone shows how worthy it is for a company to start online.

Q. Do you think readers will care to visit a free TLD URL?
Ans: No

3) It make you feel this self Pride that you also own a domain name.

Reasons Why You Need Your Own TLD Name.
After knowing the benefits attached to owning a TLD name, its equally important to have at the back of your mind reasons why TLDs are important.
1) Most web hosting providers accept only generic TLDs for signup.
2) To be a complete boss of yourself, you need have a TLD name as to which will guide you in having your own Brand Name.
3)

Challenges Of Not Owning A Domain Name

• Due to the slight cost of purchasing a domain names, not everyone is opportuned to own one. 
• Also, acquisition of Mastercard  could be a factor.
•  Morealso, gateway payments such as PayPal and Bitcoin are restricted in some countries.

I believe with the above write ups, you must have been convinced as to why you need own your domain name. Relevance of having one and what TLDs is all about. 

Thank you for reading.

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