How to buy a Domain name with Godaddy registrar

How to buy a domain with Godaddy registrar

How to buy a domain with Godaddy? Nowadays, having a website for online businesses is a need. Many people are doing this everyday. Whenever you create your own website then the first thing you need to do is finding and choosing a perfect domain name for it.

However, choosing a good domain name is not an easy thing to do. I have this article to help you guys on finding a good domain based on your ideas: Top 20 best Domain name generators to help you find the desirable Domain name. Below I’ve listed again some popular and basic characteristics of a domain name.

1. Some domain name’s characteristics you should know

In the previous article, I introduced some domain name’s characteristics you should know such as

• Your domain will be activated instantly after you bought successfully and provided full information
• You can not buy a domain name that has already existed. You just only buy when it was deleted from a registrar.
• Your domain names’ length and content do not affect website load.
• Your domain should have maximize 63 characters (include the domain extensions such as .com, .net, .edu, .gov,…)
• You can buy domain names as many as possible, no limited.
• Your domain must only contain characters in the alphabet (a-z), numeric (0-9), and hyphens (-). All spaces and other special characters are invalid
• Your domain must not begin or end with hyphens (-)

2. How to choose the best domain name?

The best domain is the right one that brings effectiveness to your business. So you should research very carefully and deeply about the market and business in order to choose the best one which suits you. Normally, people are tending to remember domains that are short, memorable and easy to spell.

If your website is in specific markets, you should also choose the domain related to your brand or products. You can choose the name base on the keywords people tend to search or products that people are usually easy to remember and pronounce. In the future, the domain keyword also helps you to improve quickly in SEO strategies.

Read more about What is a Domain Name? Where should you buy?

So that, in this article, I will guide you on how to buy a domain with Godaddy in some easy steps.

3. How to buy a domain with Godaddy?

3.1. Login to your Godaddy account and find a domain

After choosing the desirable domain name with some characteristics above, you need to do some steps below

1. Login to your Godaddy account with your username and password

2. Go to the Godaddy homepage or Domain Name Search page and type your desired domain into the search box. Then press the Search button to continue.

Type your domain name in the search box and press the Search button to continue

3.2. Add the domain name to cart

1. If the domain you choose is still available, you will receive the information as the image below. If it’s not available, you will need to search again with another name. Press the button “Add to Cart” to add your chosen domain to the cart. And then press the button “Continue to Cart” to do the next step

2. The new page appears asking you to add some more add-on features such as Privacy protection, GoCentral, and Email address.

In this guide, I don’t choose anything more, so I just simply scroll down to the end and press the button “Continue with these options“

After choosing options above, press the button “Continue with these options” to continue

3.3. Adding a Godaddy promotional code

1. A new page appears to summarize again your total cart. You need to check again the product, the term, and the total price. If you want to buy more items, just select it and you will see the total price changes each time you add or remove items. If you have a Godaddy coupon to use, click on the “+Add” text-button next to the sentence “Have a promotional code?” and type the coupon in.

2. After reviewing the cart carefully, press the button “Process to checkout” to continue.

3.4. Billing & payment

1. The billing & payment page appears to let you choose your billing information and payment method that you want to use. There are many payment types which you can choose to pay such as Paypal, Credit/Debit/Prepaid Card, UnionPay, Alipay or Gift Card.

If everything is okay, just simply press the “Place Your Order” button to pay. You will be redirected to the payment process depending on the method you’ve chosen.

2. At this step, you’ve completely & successfully bought your desired domain name at Godaddy. After successful buying, you will receive a congratulation email like this

Finally, you need to go to “Manage My Domain” to edit, add or remove records as you want. See more detail on the official video from Godaddy below

4. Conclusion

After buying domains at Godaddy, I think you should know more about how to manage it. Please read more the article here Guide to manage domain and point domain at GoDaddy

Good luck to you,