How to pick the best domain name for your online store?

In this article, we are going to talk about how to pick a good domain name for your online store. While focusing on choosing the best products, or the best dropshipping agent plays an important part, building a good website with a good domain name also matters. Sadly, many dropshippers tend to overlook this factor and think that this does not worth it. But in fact, a good domain name affects your business success more than you might think.

A good domain name and a professional website will decide if people can trust you and buy from you or not. Your store may offer many interesting trending products. People might get interested in those products. But, they just can go to your website, read the descriptions and go to Amazon to buy that product. The reason is that they do not trust you. So, in order to prevent it from happening, you need a trustworthy store with a good domain name built around your product so that people can trust your store and buy from you. Here’s how you are going to do that in detail.

How to pick a good domain name?

1. Choose a domain name built around your product rather than a general type of name

First of all, we highly recommend you to specialize in a particular type of product. We know there are a lot of general types of names like gadgetplug, trendygadget or kingdom, etc. Those names do not work anymore. So, that’s why you should focus on one product that your store is selling. This does not mean that your store just sells one product. But the thing is your domain is built around the product that you are selling.

For example, look at therosebear.com store below. When you read the name, you definitely know what products are in the store. When you need to buy a rose bear, let’s say for Valentine’s Day present, Birthday present, you would want to buy a rose bear from The rose bear store for sure. Because the domain makes the store look professional.

Another example of a good domain name is the magnetmount.co store. This store sells wireless chargers or phone chargers or alike products. But this is named magnetmount because the only product that they sold from the beginning is the wireless charging magnet mounts. So, that means they started out building their domain based on just one product then they expand their range of products and become a niche store.

You would see those two stores are all trustworthy and professional stores. You would buy a wireless charging magnet from the magnetmount store, not from some gadgetplug store. And it doesn’t come from their catchy theme or anything like that, but from their domain name which is built around one particular product.

We have some good examples already, now we will show you two other not-so-good domain names right below.

The first one is trendygadget.shop. Look at the website. Would you buy from this shop? Does it sound professional?

Again, look at this store: gadgetplugusa.com. Does it seem trustworthy to you?

So the thing is that never name your store with a very general domain name, which will be more difficult when you are running a niche store. Try to focus on just one product that you are selling. And build your domain name around that product. But, is there any way to do it easier? The answer is yes. You can seek help from Shopify Domain Name Generator, which we will talk about in the next part.

2. Go to Shopify Domain Name Generator to pick a domain name

Once you have decided what product you want to build your domain name around, go to the Shopify Domain Name Generator and click “search for a domain”. Then you would see a search box, type your product name in here. It will show you many domain suggestions to choose from. For example, we will look for the store domain for “ringlight”. Let’s see what it could offer to you:

From the results, you would choose the best option that sounds professional and pick that name for your store. You don’t have to always go for .com, it can be .shop or .co. But our recommendation is you should try .com where you can.

Now that we have talked about how to pick a good domain for your store, if you have any questions, please let us know.