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Thanks to Blogger, the option of using a custom domain for your blog withouth loosing the Google Juice has left everyone with Godaddy ot ENOM - registering their new domains.

To help you, many expert bloggers have penned down their recommendations and suggestions on things to keep in mind when selecting a domain name.Just google for “selecting a domain name” and you will come across similar points on almost all sites.

Some of them are - Keep it simple - Keep it short - Make it recallable - Do not put characters in it like hyphen or numbers - Make it typeable etc etc etc…

Truth is that many a times simple domain names aren’t available and often you end up selecting domain names you thought you never would take.

But today I’m looking at it from a different perspective.
Why does domain names have to be short or simple?

Here are a few answers i coud think of.
- SEO purposes - linking.
- Help a fellow blogger link to you with ease.
- A reader should find it easy to remember the name.
- You don’t want broken links to your blog.
- You shouldn’t forget your domain name.

What if they were difficult to remember and confusing?
- Readers would book mark you.
- They would add you to their favourites so that they can come back.
- They may join your mailing list so that they don’t have to take the trouble in visiting your blog often.

So, i think selecting a seemingly complicated - difficult to remember domain name will help you get more readers, increase your subscribers, and get more bookmarks and links!

Thanks to Philip’s blog - his blog’s got a hard to remember name(but a popular one), which made me write this article.