Friday, May 27, 2011

I May Be Changing My Domain Name

Okay folks, I need your advice….

This past week, I’ve been investigating purchasing my own domain name.

Which means, my present URL would go from triloquist dot blogspot dot com to triloquist dot com.

I’ve been thinking about doing this for some time now, but really didn’t know how to do it or what it involved.

I probably should have done this much earlier on, but kept procrastinating.

Not only do I want to do this because it would be more professional, but more so because by purchasing my own domain name will give me ownership of this blog.

I think it’s awesome that we who have our blogs either hosted on Blogspot dot com or Wordpress dot com have everything done for us for free. However, the reality of this is that we DO NOT own our blogs unless we own our own domain names.

Did you know that? I didn’t.

I can either purchase a domain through Blogger/Google (for $10.00 per year), or from a company that sells domain names. I would rather purchase it from Blogger because it would be so much easier to set up and have everything transferred to my new domain. Also, Blogger will continue to host my blog for free.

I don’t wish to self-host my blog at this moment, but simply purchase my own domain name.

My question is, have any of you done this on Blogger or Wordpress? And if you have, do you have any suggestions or advice on making the transition smooth?

Also, I’m wondering…if I should decide later on to move my blog to another blog hosting company (or self-host), will my domain name transfer too, or do I need to purchase a different domain name?

I think my biggest apprehension about switching domain names is that something will go wrong, and my readers won’t get redirected to my new domain. And what about my blog feed? Does that just redirect too?

So, if any of you ladies and gents have any feedback, I would GREATLY appreciate it.

Thank you very much!

I leave you now with some weekend photo humor…..

Have a super holiday weekend everyone!

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