Exercise 4 - Domain Name

The domain name that I chose was my name. http://jaredhaagen.com. The reason I chose this domain name, well, because I have had it for about 2 years now. I actually own about a dozen domain names, but they are pointed at businesses, so I didn't feel it appropriate to put my school work on a company's website.

I didn't have any problems finding my domain name, however I did have trouble finding a domain name for Hillside Pools. We tired anything from hillsidepools.com to indianahillsidepools.com. They ended up settling on hillsidepoolsonline.com. It is a long domain name, but it was ultimately the owner's decision.

The features that I was looking for in a web host was that they would allow multiple domain names on one account, there was enough disk space and bandwidth to handle several small businesses on one account, and that they had 24 hour support.

I chose godaddy.com because they offered everything that I wanted at a decent price. They also had decent customer service (I made sure I had a reason to contact them before signing up with them). So far I haven't been disappointed.