Why register a domain name?

Having your own domain name will make your orginazation's
name and any services associated with it available to anyone
on the Internet. For example, if your company is named Big
Corporation, you could register as bigcorporation.com. This
way, all Internet services dealing with your company would have
your own name attached to them. You could put up a web site
as www.bigcorporation.com, have discussion groups on
news.bigcorporation.com, or have e-mail sent to you at
your_name@bigcorporation.com. With your own domain, it will
be much easier for your customers to find and remember your
site on the Internet.