Developing a
website or a blog as the case may be is really fun, but it’s obvious that a
good number of bloggers and web designers majorly didn’t go for a recommendable
domain name (.com, .net. ng, .us, .tv, .org, .tech, .co, .gov, .com.ng etc) but
rather choose to go for a sub-domain which is powered by the blog or webhost
and some of the examples are given in the table below;
BLOG
OR WEB HOSTS
|
SUB-DOMAINS
|
Blogger.com
|
Blogspot.com
|
Wordpress.com
|
Wordpress.com
|
Wapka.com
|
Wap-ka.com
|
Wapka.mobi
|
|
Wapka.me
|
|
Xtgem.com
|
Xtgem.com
|
|
Faa.im
|
Heck.in
|
|
Yu.tl
|
|
Pun.biz
|
|
Wen.ru
|
Wen.ru
|
Weblog.com
|
Weblog.com
|
Now from the
above table, you can be a stick with what solidly trying to say. Opening a
website or a blog is quite different from buying a domain name. In the spate of
opening a website or perhaps a blog, is very easy because there are so many free
website and blog hosts too, which means that you don’t have to pay a dime
before you can start-up a website or a blog.
The issue of opening a free
website or blog has to do with minimal dashboard features. This means that
there are so many features in a paid hosted website or blog compared to the
free website and blog too. But one thing you must know about this free website
and blog hosting is that the host-site will only recommend a sub-domain for you
just as we listed in the table above.
NOW WHAT IS A DOMAIN NAME?
You know
before when I was a newbie on this spate, we only recognise a domain name as a
set of customised shorten web address but little did I know that this was just far
from what a domain name really is. If I may ask, what is this domain name that
I have been hearing about? This is a question the answer needs to be dropped in
a scholastic way which means that it needs to be explained in an understandable
manner.
Now “What is a Domain Name?, So i’did rather say that a domain name is
a website on the internet which ends with the-same group of letters for
example, .com, .org, .net, .co, .ng etc. I hope you wouldn’t be shocked when
you see something like backtobacknaija.com or Joetechs.com
only newbie’s would do so which
i believe that you won’t be called a newbie again after reading this very
tutorial.
WHAT IS A SUB-DOMAIN NAME?
This is also
a different thing on its own. Even as a
starter, you wouldn’t and can’t do any magic to know this, but you can only do
that by purchasing some other related PDF articles but here, we are going to
teach you the major thing you need to know about this very sub-domain thing.
Now what is sub-domain?, without wasting much of your time, I will simply say that
this is a smaller name of a website which is made up of domains of a larger
hosts. Some examples of these domains are .heck.in, .blogspot.com, .wapka.mobi
etc and there are some other websites that use sub-domain names such as www.endtime.heck.in, www.benaija.blogspot.com, www.lifetuts.wapka.mobi and so on and so forth.
Now the
major different between domain and sub-domain name is; In domain name, you have
the credit of forgoing the hosts domains, while in the case of sub-domain names
you have no option than to use the hosts provided domain.
HOW TO GET A FREE DOMAIN NAME FOR YOUR SUB-DOMAIN BLOG/WEBSITE
Even when I
started as a web-designer on wapka, I thought that this wouldn’t be possible
but when I started adapting to the nature of it, I was able to discover a
simple solution to all this, that was when I discovered that there are free
domains link .tk, .ml, ga, .cf etc, now the only way i could access it was to
use this very url format example for a .tk domain, i use www.dot.tk to access the hosts official
website. But as time furthered on, that is to say that in subsequent time, i
was able to discover their overall host. I realised that www.freenom.com is a domain host that hosts all
kinds of free domains. Now follow the bellow steps to acquire a free domain for
your blog/website;
- Kindly go to www.freenom.com
- After that, type in the name you want to use
- Now when the page loads, you will see lists of available free domains.
- After that process, select your own choice of domain.
- After selecting it, you will have to forward it to your blog or website URL (example; if you want to get www.benaija.ml, you will have to forward it to your blog URL, like www.benaija.blogspot.com ).
- Now after that process, select the expiry date for this domain.
- Now, click on submit
- After that process, enter your email.
- After that, a verification link will be sent to your email. Note: you must verify it within 24hours or else, you will have to start all over again.
- After that, open your email and click on the verification link.
- When this process is done, fill the form like your name, number etc.
- Now after this very process, your domain will be ready for use. That is to say that your domain which was previously www.benaija.blogspot.com, is now www.benaija.ml.
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