register a domain name - how to do it

if you want to build a website you need few thing for starting it successfully.
first, you should know if you site will be visited by a lot of visitors or few, that is a very important thing, because if you expect a high number of visitors, you should get a dedicated server , a standart hosting plan cant hold alot of traffic.
for good hosting plans i suggest to see what brinkster company offer, i work with them and i like it there.
they suggest you a free domain for each hosting plan, but i don't like that, i prefer to buy the domain name by my self, it's cheap (8.99$) and easy, i do that with godaddy, they have a great control panel that make it easy to manage my domains, and i have alot of them.
i already had on accident with a company that gave me a free domain, and after it expired the didn't renew that and i lost it with all my visitors. so watch out with that!
register a domain name:
so how to register a domain name? it's easy step but so important, i suggest you to register your domain in the main extensions like .com, .net , .info (it's cheap 1$ only) and .mobi (if you see that there is a use to your site with mobile)

how to choose your hosting plan
basicly you can choose a professional hosting plan, but if you think that a lot of users will be visiting you site you should change your choice, i got a basic host plan and i'm hosting many websites on it, i get 5000 visitors each day, i think it's the limit of this plan, so i think if you think you'll have more than this number of visitors daily, you should take a dedicated server.
if your websitet build with php/asp/.net/jsp
you should pay attention for that also, if you take a windows server so you should use asp/.net or you should check if the server support php, brinkster server support aslo php on their windows servers.