Get Yourself a Domain Name

This is one of episode in Blogging for Beginner.

Now you already have a brief introduction about what is blog, what is debit card and why we should have it, what is paypal and how you make an account there.

Now let’s go to the next step in your blogging world.

Buy a domain name.

There is a lot of other places for you to buy a domain name, but I am strongly recomending namecheap.

namecheap

This is the best domain retailer so far.  It might not be the cheapest but yet cheap!

You can buy a .com domain for as cheap as $8.81 here at namecheap, but there’s a trick on how to get that price.

First thing first, let’s choose your domain name.

You can use your own name for your domain name like my blog.
My name is Pangeran and I’m choosing to have a pangeran.com, but it is not available and I have no choice but to take PANGERAN.ORG as my domain if I still want to use pangeran as my domain.

You can always choose a domain describing what you do, what topic you post on your blog too.
For example, you blog about basketball, then you can get a domain name like basketball.com, but I’m sure that domain name is not available anymore because good domain name always not available if we don’t get them  earlier.

This is a list I use to choose a domain name.

• As short as possible.
• Don’t exceed threewords.
• Pass phone conversation, meaning your domain name is easy to say.
• If possible just one words.
• Make sense.

Choose Your Domain

To start searching for available domain name, use the form like above at namecheap homepage.

If your choosen domain name is available, you can click the Add to cart button, if no, then try to search for other domain.

After you click Add to cart button, the price will show $9.69 per domain.  Now, don’t click checkout yet.
Go to your webbrowser and go to http://www.namecheapcoupon.com and pick up the latest discount coupon.
Copy the discount code and paste in the coupon area, and click submit.  Now the price will discounted to only $8.81.
After this, you can click Proceed to Standard Checkout and complete the transaction.

But before all of that, if you plan to buy a domain name, you should transfer some of your money to namecheap from paypal.  If you don’t have any funds in your paypal, make sure your credit/debit card balance is suffiencient before transfering fund to namecheap via paypal using your credit/debit card.

Add Fund To Your NameCheap Account

First you need to create a namecheap account.  After that you need to login and click Add Fund.  After that a new page appear, choose add fund from paypal and put the amount of money more than $5.  I suggested you put $8.81 so the fund will cover the domain cost.  After that, you will be redirected to paypal website.  Click Pay Now and your credit/debit card will be deducted.  For Malaysian, it is advised to have atleast RM50.00 in your debit/credit card.