Posts Tagged ‘domain names’

Use a custom domain name on your blog

Posted 29 Nov 2009 — by fressbook
Category Tutorial

Pub­lish­ing on Blog*Spot is the fastest and eas­i­est way to use all of Blogger’s great fea­tures. (And for free, no less!) If you don’t care to have blogspot.com in your blog’s address, though, you can get a domain of your own. We’ll con­tinue to host all your con­tent as before, but it will be dis­played at your new address. (Unlike FTP pub­lish­ing, which requires you to buy both a domain name and a host­ing service.)

Choose and Reg­is­ter Your Domain

The first thing you’ll need to do is to choose a domain name, like example.com and reg­is­ter it. You can reg­is­ter domain names from any of a num­ber of dif­fer­ent reg­is­trars, and you can use .com, .org, .net or any other valid addresses. Remem­ber: you only need to get the domain name; you don’t have to pay extra for host­ing ser­vice. The eas­i­est way to reg­is­ter a domain is to buy your domain directly through Blog­ger. If you go this route, we’ll auto­mat­i­cally con­fig­ure all of your rel­e­vant DNS set­tings and attach your new domain to your exist­ing blog imme­di­ately.
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History of Domain Names

Posted 31 Aug 2009 — by inem
Category Other


What is a domain name? A domain name is a unique name, kind of like an e-mail address is unique, which is reg­is­tered in a data­base called WHOIS through an orga­ni­za­tion called Net­work Solu­tions, Inc. (NSI). The domain name cor­re­sponds to a unique set of num­bers called an IP (Inter­net Pro­to­col) address. The rea­son we use domain names instead of IP addresses is that they are closer to our lan­guage. It would be dif­fi­cult to mar­ket a site like this: “Go to 64.233.167.99 or 216.109.112.135 to search the inter­net!” A much eas­ier way to do this is to say “Go to www.Google.com or www.yahoo.com to search the inter­net!” (Both Google and Yahoo are trade marked by Google, Inc., and Yahoo, Inc., respec­tively).
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