Tuesday, March 10, 2009

How to have an own domain for my blog?

If you have got enough experience in blogging and would like to experience in owning your domain name instead of yourblog.blogspot.com or yourblog.wordpress.com, then here is the guide to select a good domain name and how to transfer your blog to that.

Both blogger and wordpress has integrated domain purchase system in their platform. People who don’t know anything about IP Address, URL Forwarding, etc can use that service. Blogger gives a own domain name for $10 and it does all the DNS Record settings and only you need to change the settings in your blog. For that go to Login and go to settings in your blog, select PUBLISHING -> Custom Domain -> give your desired name (www.myblog.com) and check. Blogger has some bugs which are not fixed yet and so I do not recommend them. Wordpress also has a similar setup and they charge $15 for a domain.

Instead of going through blogger and wordpress, we ourselves can buy domain at cheaper price directly through domain registrars like GoDaddy, Enom, etc.

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