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Attention bloggers who blogs on blogspot (blogger.com) platform. I only have one advice. Please get your own domain name and use it as custom domain for your blogspot account because, whatever happen to blogspot, your domain stays with you - forever!

One classic example is blog of Malaysia’s ex prime minister; Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. Previously, his blog was hosted by blogspot. Not long after his blog become popular (remember the 1 million hits record?), blogspot unreasonably shut down his blog. Luckily he is using his own domain name; chedet.com. Can you imagine what a disaster it would have been if his blog’s address was something like chedet.blogspot.com? He would have lost all his readers. All the efforts in promoting the blog and search engine ranking would have gone down the drain! Now, his blog is self hosted using Movable Type (a blog CMS) on a dedicated server. Well, it was down for few days, but at least the damage was very minimal.

Don’t take it for granted. You never know what will happen in future. It could be another dotcom burst coming soon.

One great feature from blogspot is they allow you to use a custom domain name on blogspot platform. That means, you still blog normally using the same platform but using your own domain. How cool is that?

For example, if you own abc123.com, you can easily convert your current address from http://abc123.blogspot.com/ to http://abc123.com/ for free. Anyone who goes to the old address will redirect to your new domain. Not only you will not loose any readership, it is short and easy to remember too.

All you need is…

1. A domain name
2. DNS management service

Finally, refer to this article to learn how to use a custom domain name on your blogspot account.

I have mentioned before in “10 tips for choosing a good domain name for your company“; one way to get a good domain name for your company is to register your domain name first before you choose your company name. Here is a cool and extremely fast way to do that. Try our new Random Web 2.0 Domain Name Generator to get new idea for your domain name. You are able to check the availability of the domain name instantly.

Here are some samples of really good domain names generated by the generator that are still available at the time of publishing this blog.

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• lifemuses.com (register it!)
• slashdesks.com (register it!)
• simplebosses.com (register it!)
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• nugogo.com (register it!)
• conboo.com (register it!)
• setpeers.com (register it!)

Now you can have a Web 2.0 domain name for your brand new website.

The .ASIA registration is live at a special introductory offer of RM75/year. From now onward, you can register your desired .ASIA domain name (for example: yourname.asia) on a “first come first serve basis“. Also, the minimum registration period is now 1 year.

Why Register .ASIA?

1. Target more than 60% of the World population residing in Asia.
2. Create a strong presence in Asia.
3. Protect your brand from cyber-squatters.

How To Apply?
Visit our Order Center and search for your domain availability there. If it is still available, you can submit your application and we will proceed with the registration once the full payment of the invoice is made.

More About .ASIA

• .Asia registration policy
• .Asia reserve name policy
• FAQ on .ASIA

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