Try to register the shortest name that your customers and visitors will associate with your Website.

If your name is 'Box Office Business Solutions', registering BoxOfficeBusinessSolutions.com is better than registering a shorter, yet cryptic bxoffbs.com that customers are likely to forget.

Get a .com extension if possible. It is usually the first extension that people try. Also, .net may be acceptable if you can find a better name available than any .com extension. Non-profit organizations can use .org also.

Try to avoid hyphens unless your name reflects it. If your name is 'Big Books', customers will usually go to BigBooks.com instead of Big-Books.com.

Sometimes, it isn’t a bad idea to register several similar domain names. If you have 'name.com', register 'name.net'" so no one else takes it. You can register your full company name and a shorter, easier to remember version that points to your main Website.

There are hundreds of thousands domains registered every day. You don't even need a Website to register a domain name. If you find one you like, grab it while you can, even if you don't plan on using it right away.