This was my mistakes when I setup The Tech Zone. A few months later some jerk registered thetechzone.net right under my nose. I'm still trying to get the name back. Your site must have unique contents. If you plan to just post news from other sites, you can forget about ever becoming a big site.
People can read news anywhere.
It's covered very well by sites like Voodoo Extreme and Blues News . At first this will not be a problem, but believe me, once you start doing a few Gigs of traffic each day, your web host will either kick you out or force you to buy a dedicated server. Very few web host providers offer true unlimited traffic. Read the fine print in the contract. All rights reserved.