Domain names for Internet marketing should include appropriate keywords to obtain
better SERP (search engine results page). The idea is that you wouldn’t want to name your site DogCare.com if you are selling Real Estate. Also your personal name is going to be more difficult to draw traffic for a non-related product without a lot of advertising expense to create branding. Google always heavily weights related domain names to keyword searches for SERP. Therefore, it’s just a lot easier to include strong keywords in your domain to assure some free search traffic and better SERP.
Create domain name registration costs around $10 a year and is usually discounted for 2 years or more. Some sites, such as, GoDaddy have discounts for 6 or more domain name registrations at one time. You can register a domain name with any registrar and have their DNS server point that domain to any other site where you might want to host it. I personally buy domains from GoDaddy and host them with HostGator. Most web hosting plans allow for unlimited domain hosting. You should try and use dot com which is the most popular extension followed by dot net.
The Learn Internet Marketing Tools website has some addition information you might find useful.
Keywords are the foundation for any successful Internet Marketing endeavor. Therefore proper keywords tool research and marketing is essential to draw adequate Internet traffic. You have to
know what and where your target is before you can hit it. Many web sites are setup without going through this process and consequently they never fully realize the traffic flow they could possibly generate if they optimize their sites on appropriate keywords. Traffic, and lots of it, is what you need to sell anything on the Internet. So how do you hit the target? Well you need to know what people want and how they go about finding it on the Internet. For example, if you were trying to find some help for upgrading memory on a notebook computer. You might try a Google search using the keywords notebook memory upgrade. Google would return the first 10 sites of over 20 million sites that it found relating to the search. If my web site were trying to offer advice or products for these keywords it would need to be on the first page for anyone to find me. But how else might someone search for the same info. There is many different possibilities with many different results. So how can you bring people to your site that needs your products or services? It’s all about keywords and the words people use most to search with. If we could determine the most frequently used words we could develop ways to bring that traffic to our site and have a better chance of making a sale. Google AdWords is the tool to use to find the most search words and then use these words in your marketing (or pay Google) to bring the traffic. Go to Google AdWords and search the keywords notebook memory upgrade and see what you get for results. You will find that there is over 9,000 searches every month for those keywords and advertisers (Google Sponsored Links at the top and side of each page) are willing to pay as high as $3.62 cents for every click to bring someone to their site in hopes of a sale. If you were to setup a site to be an affiliate marketer Google Adsense would pay as mach as 25% of the click rate and affiliate, such as Amazon and eBay will pay a sales commissions of 5% to 60% or more of each sale. The profits can be considerable again depending on the traffic flow. So doing your research and optimizing your site on the right keywords will make a big difference.
The Learn Internet Marketing Tools website has some addition information you might find useful.