Once you have done your niche research and discovered a worthy niche to blog about, it’s time to find a domain name registrar and a domain hosting site. Sure, you can get a domain name and host the domain name with the same site but I don’t like to have “all my eggs in one basket.” That means, I feel much better when one site cannot fully decide my fate on the internet, especially after my blog is populated and has decent traffic.
You will want to use Godaddy.com to purchase your domain name. They are one of the cheapest and most reliable domain registrars around. You can purchase a domain name for as little as .89 cents (a .info) for 1 year. Thereafter, it will only cost around $11 a year to keep that domain name. And you will want to keep it and put it on automatic renewal. If you continue following my advice, this one site will be earning at least $3 a day in just a few months. There is a banner off to the right of this blog to take you to the Godaddy.com site and select your name.
You will also want to use HostGator.com for all of your domain hosting. HostGator.com allows unlimited numbers of domains to be hosted under one primary account. HostGator.com has baby plans that start out at around $9 per month and like I mentioned, you can have unlimited numbers of domains hosted. After you purchase your domain name, head on over to the HostGator.com site through my banner to the right and set up a hosting account.
The next step will be to get your domain names pointed to your hosting site, which is only a matter of logging into your Godaddy.com account and selecting your domain, then changing the Name Servers to have them pointed at HostGator.com. This costs nothing and you can do it as often as needed.
Read my full article on Hubpages.com on Domain Names and Domain Hosting for more details.
In the next post, I will discuss how to set up the WordPress software on your new domain.