[MUSIC] Hi, in this lesson I'd like to talk about how we actually go about reserving a name once we've chosen it. So right now we're visiting the ICANN website. And ICANN is the international organization that governs names and their use on the Internet. So when we register names, we really don't need to visit ICANN because ICANN will appoint registers in various areas, like for instance, Google or GoDaddy. And here we're looking at yet another that isn't appointed by ICANN, but will search names and then direct us to a service that is registered. For instance, here at the bottom, we see GoDaddy, Google and so forth. So it helps us search and we can go to one of these registrars in order to purchase the name and reserve it for our site. So in this case, I've typed in a long and rather silly name, fishfoodisfunforme. Now as you might guess, no one has actually purchased this name and I can purchase it if I like. It shows me similar names like just fishfood.us or fishfoods.com. In these cases it's telling me these are available at auction. But I'm going to recommend that you not choose any sites where the name is expensive, like this very expensive $3,600, or the auction where the price is uncontrolled. But instead, make sure that you're finding names that you can buy and generally, you can buy them for a low price. Now, there are many of these search engines for names on the Internet. I'd like to recommend that you use one from a name you recognize such as Google or we'll look at another from GoDaddy in a moment. And it's probably a good idea to buy the name you want or reserve the name you want with a purchase from the same vendor you're going to use for your web hosting. Now this is not a requirement, but if you use the same service for web hosting and the name purchase, there won't be any need to transfer. On the other hand, if you buy the name from Google but then later decide you want to post your website with a different service, such as GoDaddy, then you'll have to have the name transferred from Google to GoDaddy in order to be able to use it. Now this is possible, but there are usually some small fees and a bit of a nuisance involved in the transfer. So it's best to reserve the name with the same service you're going to host with, but don't worry. If you forget, you can always transfer it. So I'm going to go now to GoDaddy, and notice here I've typed in a shortened version of my previous name. And again, there are many of these search engines. You can use any one you like, they all search the same data. It's best to choose a reputable one. And I'm going to search here and we'll see what GoDaddy has to say about fishfood. And it's telling me here, sorry fishfood.com, which would be a common choice, isn't available. But notice it gives me a lot of other options. Eel are similar to fish so it tries eelfood. Scrod is a kind of fish so scrodfood, dogfishfood and so on. This can help us one, to let us know what's purchasable, and GoDaddy is telling us under certain conditions it'll let us register the name for $0.99, essentially $1. Probably it does that if you happen to be a GoDaddy customer for instance, you're using their site, or rather you're using their services to host your site. And when we do something like this we get other name ideas, so for instance in a previous lesson we talked about how to choose a good name. If the name you want is taken, you may find with a service like this or a search like this, that you can find a very similar name that you like just as well that is available for purchase. Okay, that's all for this lesson. Talk to you next time.