Website Starting Steps

Beginning a Church’s Web Ministry

Deciding on a domain name (The stuff between the WWW. and the .com)

Using web savvy, decide what your domain name needs to be. It should be long enough to describe your organization/institution, but short enough to remember and for easy searching.

Examples: (Note: these are fictional names of churches and cities)

You also must decide on and buy a dot extension (Ex. .org, .com, .net). We recommend buying all three extensions (in most cases) for the reasons listed below.

Go to a registry site and proceed through the process for domain registration. Pick whichever register you wish (and there are many). But go somewhere and get started!

Establish a relationship to provide web hosting.

You are now well on your way to starting up your church website. If you need assistance in any of these steps, please don’t hesitate to call the Chowan Baptist Association at 252-426-9621.

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