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While you're viewing this page,
you can click on any of the images for a larger view.
This first page is the entrance to GoDaddy's
site. There's a box in the middle of it where you can test the name
you'd like to register for your domain. Don't be surprised if someone
already has it -- just keep trying. I typed in the name of my academic dean
-- lawrencebrennanjr.com -- and found it was available. |
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Once you find the name you want
is available, you'll be given some options on the dot suffixes. Notice
that lawrencebrennanjr.info can be had for only 99 cents. Why the
.info sites are cheaper is a mystery to me, but at an $8 per year savings,
it's a great boon if you plan to register a name for a decade all at once. |
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The next screen is a sales
pitch. You'll be offered the chance to buy other dot suffixes on the
cheap. You'll want to click the little blue link that reads "No
thanks! Continue to check out" right beneath the big green one that reads,
"Yes, I am a sucker." |
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At this next screen, you'll
simply fill out your name and contact information. |
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Confirm your contact
information. |
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Here, you'll select the length
of time for name registration. Even though you'll be paying it all at
once, it's a good idea to register for an entire decade. The reason
for that is that on expiration Network Solutions, a company that seems to
have a corner on the domain name registration market, will invoice you $35
for each additional year. It's better to get a decade for $89.50 all
at once than it is to have to pay at least $315 over time.
Concerning the package, stick with the
standard one for now -- you can always upgrade, and it'll take you some time
before you have to. |
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If you need hosting space,
you'll want to use this first one -- that's the one that gives you 5,000 mb
of space on the cheap. You could double that space for less than twice
the monthly cost, but it's better to wait till you actually get somewhere
near to using the first 5,000 and just upgrade. |
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Keep going. Don't upgrade
the registration type. That's another thing you can do later if you
have to. |
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The cost of our economy hosting
plan is going to be $43.05 for the first year, which is cheap! As a
bonus, we get that first year of the domain name for only $1.99, too.
Our having bought the hosting space qualifies us for the discount. |
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If, of course, I already have
hosting space on, say, my institutional server and just need a name to point
toward it, then I proceed from the earlier steps without it. After you
complete the sale, you can forward the domain to any space you like so that
whenever anyone enters your name, they get redirected someplace else.
The Catholic Distance Learning
Network is an example of this. Click anywhere on that page, and
you'll see the address stays the same. The real content is sitting in
a subfolder off www.kenrickparish.com,
which is the community site of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary.
Okay, so you've gotten this far without help.
If you need it now, though, email me at
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