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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3342 - Q&A: “What’s the best way to register domains?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Small Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

There's no reason not to have your own domain now. But what's the best way to register one, and do you need to get every extension?

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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.


Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com

Email: team@sidehustleschool.com

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

The easiest way to scale your business is to stay connected and not just with your team,

0:05.2

but also your money, your cash flow. That's why you want to make the switch to Intuit QuickBooks

0:10.3

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0:15.3

together in one platform. You get real-time insights and visibility. You can see the cash

0:20.6

coming in, going out. You can see your

0:22.8

vendors, what you need to pay, what you can expect. This has been a problem for me sometimes in the

0:27.4

past. So I love the idea of having just simple clarity. Reclaim that clarity and control so you can

0:33.3

grow your business with QuickBooks Money Tools today. Learn more at QuickBooks.com

0:37.6

slash money. Again, that's quickbooks.com slash money. Terms apply. Money movement services

0:43.2

are provided by Intuit Payments Incorporated, licensed as a money transmitter by the New York State Department of Financial Services.

0:52.6

Lemonada. These days, if you have a new project and you want to do anything online, there's really no

1:05.9

reason not to have your own domain.

1:08.3

Even if you don't want to build a full website, if you just want to redirect that domain to a social media account or to anywhere else, domains are just cheap.

1:16.4

They're portable. Once you have registered a domain somewhere, you can take it somewhere else.

1:20.2

If you want, you're the owner of that. You really don't want to have to tell people to go to

1:24.2

like a complicated redirect situation of like, hey, my website is like my site.

1:29.3

Dot WordPress.com or somebody else's subdomain. You really want to have your own domain.

1:33.6

Like there's no reason for it. There's no reason not to. So today's caller is wondering about the best way

1:37.9

to register domains. You know, if you're like me, the bigger challenge is having too many. I'm not

1:43.3

sure how many total domains I have way too many. And I have to pay for them every year, et cetera. But they're pretty cheap, at least just for a small number of domains, usually $10 a year. So I'll say more about that in my answer as well. What's the best way to register them? Is there some advantage to doing it from one platform or another and so on?

2:05.6

A detailed question from our caller and a couple other points as well.

2:07.4

Hopefully something helpful for somebody out there.

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