Simply enter the web address you want to register into the search box. If the name you entered has already been registered, we’ll list any available alternatives. If the domain is available, follow the on-screen instructions to complete the registration process.

Absolutely! SunDezine’s domain name search tool can assist you by offering suggestions and other alternatives to any domain you look for.

Typically, there is a limit to a domain length, with the minimum being 1 character and the maximum being 63 characters. Ideally, you want your domain name to accurately reflect your brand, whether it’s personal or business-oriented. We provide some guidelines for picking out a great domain name  

1. To check if a domain name is available, just type it in GoDaddy’s search bar and we’ll tell you immediately if it’s already owned by someone else.

2. If it’s taken, you can search for your domain name using our WHOIS Lookup.

3. Or try our Domain Broker Service, where we can negotiate acquiring the domain from its current owner.

We also offer a Domain Backorder service, where you purchase a backorder credit to give you a chance to get the domain you want when it goes to auction.

A handful of domains will have restrictions on them, which means you can only purchase them if you meet or exceed certain criteria or have authorization (some examples are .gov, .edu and .mil). But most extensions are available to everyone. In fact, most country code Top Level Domains ccTLDs are available for anyone to purchase, even if you don’t reside in the country code in question.

TLD stands for ‘top-level domain’, and it’s used to refer to the last part of a web address after the final dot. Examples include .com, .gov and .org. You can’t have a website without a TLD, and every domain name is made up of a label (i.e. hostinger) and a TLD (i.e. .com).

The great thing about TLDs is that they usually tell you something about the site that they point to, with the exception of .com which originally meant ‘commercial’ but which is now used by pretty much everyone. Other examples include .org (organisation), .edu (education) and .gov (government).

TLDs can be split into two further categories: country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

Country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) are a subcategory of TLDs which are used to identify a particular country. They send signals to both users and search engines that the website is designed for visitors from a specific region. For example, Google has Google.com as its generic site, but UK visitors can visit Google.co.uk and German visitors can visit Google.de.

Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are the most common type of domain name, in part because this category includes .com domains – which have more registrations than all of the ccTLDs combined.

Historically, the main gTLDs were .com, .org, .net, .edu, .gov, and .mil, but the number of available gTLDs has been expanded with the result that there are now hundreds of available gTLDs including .online, .xyz, and .name.

The minimum length that you can register a domain name for is a year, but you can also extend your registration to three years if you’d like to own it for longer.

On top of this, we encourage you to renew domain name. You will get notifications via email when it’s time to renew the domain name. We also allow you to set up auto renewal so that as long as your payment method is still valid, your domain name registration will automatically be renewed at regular intervals.

Your domain name is like your address and your web hosting is like the house that you live in. If you want to launch a website then you’ll need both a domain name, which people can use to find you, and a web host, which stores the actual website.

Domain names and web hosting have a sort of symbiotic relationship, like software and hardware or yin and yang. While it’s technically possible to have one without the other, they work best when they’re working together, which is why many web hosts offer domain name registration and why many registrars offer hosting.

You can separate the two, of course, and register a domain name through one company and buy hosting from another. But it’s usually more time-consuming – not to mention more expensive – so why bother?

Privacy protection is sometimes called WHOIS protection because it hides certain information about a domain name’s owner that would otherwise be discoverable through a WHOIS lookup.

WHOIS is an international organisation that stores and displays data about domain names and their registrars, including when they were registered, when they expire, who registered them and where the domain names are pointing.

This means that anyone can enter a domain name into the WHOIS database and retrieve the information. Privacy protection is an optional extra which allows you to combat this if you’d prefer to remain anonymous.

Privacy protection isn’t for everyone, of course, but if you’d prefer to replace your name, address, phone number, email address and business name with a set of generic, non-identifiable information, then perhaps it’s the route for you.