Comments on: Ten Reasons Why You Don’t Need Your Own Domain

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:39:07 +0000

Again, there is still a large percentage of companies that don’t have a professional website, let alone a blog or email address that is connected with their domain. The post was intended more for the individuals who started a blog and didn’t know that they would be able to expand in the future, and presented some reasons for staying with the .blogspot.com domain or any other provider.

A lot of people feel that they shouldn’t spend any money on a website because they may never recoup the costs, and the $10 appears to be a much bigger cost. After purchasing the domain, they may never develop the site, completely losing out on the opportunity. Some people would rather not have to deal with hosting issues or “customizing” their template, let alone having to learn HTML and CSS. This is mainly those who explored Twitter from hearing it in media and wanted to branch out to a blog.

By: kiedis

kiedis — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:05:15 +0000

seriously…if you want to blog for real and do something out of your blog, well 10 euro for a domain is as much as you spend on a movie….come on! its not the end of the world, having a domain name doesn’t mean you need to hire an expensive server. You can get a mutualised hosting wich is a lot cheaper. Some companies give you the domain plus your email and hosting for something like 20 euro or less a year, if you don’t have a lot of traffic you’ll be fine, but if you do one day you can always ‘grow up’…if that happens it also means your ads will be worth something and you might get able to pay for more expensive hosting.

Not to mention the ability to choose the tool you want to blog with (wordpress, dotclear…etc)
you can also upload your plugins and customize everything…and have an email that matches your website. There is nothing worse than trying to be serious about a job and having a ‘hotmail.com’ in the business card, its a bad image, you need a matching email address if you want to do things seriously…

Still if you don’t want the hassle of maintaining a wordpress and you don’t care that much about plugins and other things you can one of their free blogs…
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By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:27:48 +0000

I was strictly speaking for the people that would rather not have to convert over to their own domain and already have developed a brand on a “.blogspot.com” or similar domain. Often, people don’t look beyond the fact that not everyone is in it to make money, and for the people only posting twice a week (on a consistent basis), there really isn’t a need to branch off and go the whole branding a domain direction.

From the marketing perspective, I agree 100% with the fact that you need a domain, flexibility, and a powerful CMS/platform to build upon. There will always be a percentage, quite large in a sense, of businesses and individuals that still don’t have their own domain/website.

By: Jay Ehret

Jay Ehret — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:44:42 +0000

I understand your reasoning here, but really you can have your own domain name and a website for under $100 including hosting. Some hosting services will even let you pay monthly for about $8. There’s no reason not to have your own domain name and website.