The Skull Cinema

This post was supposed to be the one where, having a custom domain, I set up a blog account on Blogger and link it to skullcinema.com so that it defaults to showing the blog when skullcinema.com is entered. Unfortunately it didn't go smoothly for reasons that I am still unclear about, although it is likely that the order I attempted the process in was to blame. I started by setting up a blog on my existing blogger account as I wanted to get started drafting posts. After the domain was secured I tried to link/transfer the blog to skulcinema.com. But, instead of it appearing on www.skullcinema.com , my efforts produced a forward to a new subdomain of blog.skullcinema.com . Not what I wanted, but hey-ho it works. As documenting my f(l)ailing at the process wouldn't be very illuminating I won't bother, but at some point I should be able to put something up showing how to repair my botched set-up. For now the basic work of getting the blog active is complete (even if it...

So this was supposed to be the part where I buy the domain from a cheap domain registrar and then transfer it to GoogleDomains . Well, not quite… I went to tld-list.com and domcomp.com and identified that 1&1 were offering domains at $1.19 (paying in USD is no problem these days) with free WHOIS privacy, unlike GoDaddy who wanted a further £5.99 for it. OK, I haven't tried moving a domain from 1&1 to Google Domains but I got it to work with GoDaddy and there would be a year to organise it. So off to the 1&1 website. Huh? $16.34? Oh, I only want one year as I am going to move afterwards, let's change that. Ahh, there's the catch, you have to buy two years with one at full price. OK, let's try the UK website, as the exchange fees will jack that price up. Now even more, at £13.32 a year. Ho hum, may as well just go directly to GoogleDomains. Quick search for skullcinema and slap it in the cart. All present and correct. ...