Domain Support

Hi,

Wordpress is offering domain support for their free blogs. This is important because you want your users to find you at myname.com or myband.com.

Domain Support

At least for now WordPress is not supporting email to your domain. That's ok. Your gmail or yahoo account is fine.

I want to emphasize how important choosing the correct domain name is. You want it to be rememberable. You want it to be spellable. You want it to be free of dashes, underscores, or other punctuation. You want it to be short or at least not too long. You want to be able to say it without having to spell it out or explain it. All these things are important.

Larry Donn was lucky. His son had already set him up with larrydonn.com. We just have to get it transferred to his blog.

Your domain is your main gateway into your web presence. It should host your blog which will be your most frequently updated place on the web. Why is this? Because everytime you upload a YouTube video you will make a blog entry. Every time you add a song to ReverbNation you will make a blog entry. And you will also make blog entries that aren't tied to media.

When you start using twitter for microblogging your twitter account may be updated more than your blog. But your blog will host an RSS feed to your tweets so every time you tweet your blog will also be updated.

Well I'm flying way ahead of myself here and I can see I'm going to have to do a Big Picture post to explain where we're going. I am excited that WordPress free blogs support domain names. This means musicians can build their web presence with no monthly bills and only one small bill a year to keep their domain registered.

Thanks,

Hairy Larry