The domain name for this blog is passiveincome.net, you enter that domain name in your browser and you will be sent to this website.

A good blog name as well as a domain name is unique and descriptive, so your audience will immediately know what your blog is all about.

Another option is to use your own name as a domain name. For example, I have registered passiveincome.net, if the domain name with your name is already taken you can add your middle name or initial.

Once you have selected your domain name you need to go for a domain extension, if available go for a .com domain extension, if it is not available see if a .net is available. Don’t get too tempted with all the new exotic domain extensions (.club, .pizza, .space, etc.), I still need to see one ranking number 1 in search engines. If your blog is only targeting your country you might want to go for a country domain extensions, think of .co.uk (for the United Kingdom), .nl (for the Netherlands), etc.

You might want to think of a creative and brandable domain name vs. a generic one. Your domain name is how visitors will find, remember and share your company website.

A short domain name is better than a long domain name, the most common length of a domain name is 12 characters. Aim for a domain name that is between 6 characters and 14 characters in length (remember, short is better). It can happen that all the short domain names are taken and the longer ones are being sold for crazy prices, I such case do what Google, Bing and Yahoo did.

You should find a domain name that is easy to pronounce and to type, as easy as your domain name rolls of the tips of your fingers, it should roll of the tip of your tongue. Think about some of the most popular websites in the world? Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Instagram, etc. One thing they have in common they are easy to pronounce and to spell.

When you are looking for the perfect domain name you might be tempted to use hyphens and numbers… avoid them if you can! Remember your domain name should be easy to spell and pronounce, e.g. 1-balloon-shop.com, try to explain this over the phone to a potential client? It is one, no the number, balloon shop, with a hyphen after the number 1 and between balloon and shop… Make your domain name smooth and punchy and sick to letters!

A good idea is to use your niche keyword(s) that reflect your website in your domain name, let’s say you want to write a blog about electric vintage guitars… then the most obvious domain name here is electricvintageguitars.com (I am aware if does not meet the 12-character domain name, however this domain name is easy to remember, pronounceable and contains niche keywords). Having your niche keywords in your domain can improve your search engine optimization, hence ranking in the search engine result.

When looking for a suitable domain name for your blog have a long time strategy in mind, let’s say you want to sell toys that help people with ADHD, you could register a domain name such as fidgetspinners.com (which would be awesome to have), but it might be a hype… in a few months nobody might know about fidget spinners anymore, perhaps a better domain would be adhdtoys.com… on this domain you could go on about all the different ADHD toys for kids… for adults, etc.

Important to know is that you should be careful with the registration of a domain name that is a trademark, e.g. mickeymouse.tv comes to mind. You can check if a trademark is already registered on https://trademarks.justia.com/. Additionally, you might want to check if your domain name is still available on the various social media sites, a good tool to help you check is https://knowem.com/, it is a tool that quickly checks if your keyword or domain is used on a social media account.

At this point you should have a general idea of some possible words that you could put into your domain name. Some of those words might already be taken, trademarked or simply do not have the “sound” that you are looking for. To help you find a domain name you have so called domain generators, feed it some information of what you are looking for and it helps you find an available domain name.

https://wordoid.com/ – you feed it a keyword and it will come up with ideas that either contain that word, begin with that word or end with that word.

https://www.leandomainsearch.com/ – this tool helps you to search for keywords, find expired domain names, generate new names and more.

https://www.leandomainsearch.com/ – this tool matches your keyword with other keywords and then generate a list using those two.