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Every Blogger wants his blog to look more professional by having a domain name rather than a subdomain like (username.wordpress.com) and that was the main reason why I moved to a self hosted platform. Folk at Wordpress.com realized this need and now they give you a option to choose your own domain name.
Simply go to Options > Domains in your WP Admin Panel and enter your domain name in the box. If you registering a new domain, they charge you 15$ per year (all inclusive), else if you already own a domain name, you can map it for 10$ per year and update your nameservers.
Any visitors to your blog’s old URL will be automatically redirected to its appropriate new URL. If you don’t like the domain name, you can always revert back to your same old subdomain. Pricing seems to be pretty reasonable to me. What’s your opinion ?
Although I don’t have a blog at Wordpress.com, I really welcome this new feature and I hope Wordpress.com allows bloggers to place ads on their blogs in future (Consider this as my Wishlist)
Link: Domain Registration and Mapping
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wrote, on October 25th, 2006
That’s pretty neat.
And it’s good to see you back up, Thilak
wrote, on October 25th, 2006
well thats a good feature, neat one. but i doubt on people opting for that. not sure if that would click.
wrote, on October 25th, 2006
well, it jus might sindhu, 15$ is ok ok for global users. in indian money though i wouldnt advice it
wrote, on October 25th, 2006
Yeah, This would sure make bloggers move from Blogspot to Wordpress
wrote, on October 26th, 2006
Great news.
I may now think of shifting my old weblog on the present one)
wrote, on October 26th, 2006
Abhinav: Are you moving back to Wordpress.com again ?
wrote, on February 9th, 2008
Hey, if you are into contests there is a great contest on YouTube for Valentines Day. The contest is to create a video for the holiday. Actually its two contests, one is to make a video talking about your great love and the second is to actually do an online video proposal called “Will You Marry Me?” Here’s the URL http://www.youtube.com/greates.....m_cid=twb8. If you have a last minute entry great, otherwise check out the contest winners next week.