You are now ready to purchase your blog’s name, get building and show the world what you have, right?
Excellent news 🙂
Here is a checklist to ensure that you have all bases covered
- Decide on a blog name that suits your blog niche or topic.
- Choose the second level domain -at the end of the domain name – .com, .co.uk, .net etc.
- Navigate to the vendor that you will be purchasing your blog name from.
- Check availability of a domain name you type in.
- If the name you have chosen, look at other options like acronyms, events.
- Find available price discounts. There are usually discounts online for most digital products – search ‘godaddy discount code’ – or whoever you choose to purchase your domain from.
- On the registrar website type in the blog domain that you want to register and follow the instructions provided.
- Make sure your contact details are correct.
- Set your domains to auto-renew.
- Verify your information in the Whois database.
- Purchase hosting and get your domain name to point to your hosting plan
- Create your web site and set up your email address.