Blogging? Schmogging!

Okay, shoot me. Shoot me now.

Apparently moving on over to another blogging provider involves many decisions. Who’d have known? Today’s involved private vs public domain registration. I had always assumed when you signed up for a domain that there was at least some sort of privacy control. Um, no. Apparently (and this seems to be largely a US decision, but let me know if I’m wrong) they don’t allow truly anonymous domain registration. Legislation means the postal address you use to sign up for the domain is public knowledge - just visit Whois and type in any ol’ domain name, and you’ll see what I mean. Unless, that is, you opt for private registration, which is an additional fee on top of registering the domain itself. For me, adding on the private option was going to almost double my yearly cost.

Does anyone else find this mildly annoying? Maybe I’ve been living in a cave or some such thing but I had no idea we’d be up for the additional cost - our chosen registrar wasn’t very clear on their ‘products’ page that there’d be extra money involved for private registration. We got halfway through the sign up phase before we worked it out and had to backtrack. And DH’s career definitely requires a very vigilant attitude to internet security so that effectively put a kybosh on the idea for the time being. Very frustrating, especially as I’ve been living and breathing design ideas for two weeks now!

Cheers,
Lizzie