I recently talked to someone who was very frustrated while trying to tranfer their domain name from GoDaddy. 

So, in an effort to help, I spent several hours looking over GoDaddy’s site (which is a very busy place with lots of links) with much frustration.

In order to tranfer you domain name you must first get an EPP Code (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) from your present registrar.  This prevent fraudulent domain transfers and domain hijacking. 

I decided to Google “epp godaddy” and found this great tutorial showing you how to get your EPP Code from GoDaddy. If you want to transfer you name from GoDaddy check it: http://www.meetarpit.com/how-to-get-epp-code-from-domain-registrar/

A domain name is an identification label that defines ownership and must be registered every year, that is your url.  Whoever registers it, usually the hosting company, owns the domain name for the duration of the registration. Hence, all domains must be registered every year.  It can be transferred but can take anywhere from 5-days to 1 month and may be rejected on the first try. So don’t wait till the last month to transfer the site so your site will will not have any lapse time.

Hosting is simply the right to park your web site.  A hosting company parks your site in a database with a certain allowed amount of size depending on you plan. You also are allowed a limited amount of bandwidth transfer per month, again depending on you plan. If you exceed that limit, you can be upgraded so your site is not be shut down. 

In 1994, online  journals got its start which was the beginning of online blogging as we know it today. The term weblog was coined in Dec of 1997 by John Barger and later shortened to blog, making blogging the grandfather to social networking. It is now the most popular and versatile forms of social networking available, whether you are using it for personal use or business applications.

The main reasons we, as a business, use social networking is to bring traffic to our web site and generate revenue. There are other reasons why you might start a blog for your business but these are the primary reasons.  So, with  that in mind, if your blog does not have your URL (IE: http://yoururl.com/myblog), you are not maximizing the traffic to your site.

Blogs come in about every flavor you can imagine, but for business applications there are only a few that are worth looking into.

There are some blogs that will allow you to do this, but the most popular and most widely used is Wordpress.  Many are even creating complete Web Sites using custom Wordpress themes.  My wife’s first Web Site was a Wordpress blog using her main URL address or index page as her blog page.  The benifit of this is that there are already RSS Feeds, SEO and other tools available to plug into these Blogs.

The next generation of Blogging in the industry that we are starting to see is Joomla, which is much more than a Wordpress Blog.  It manages content.  Joomla  provides you a dynamic Web Site where you can manage the content  and also make entrys – like a blog.  It is much harder to learn then blogging but much easier to learn then Web Design.  You can buy or get free designs or “themes”  that you load onto your Joomla platform and then manage your content.

If you want to find out more or are interested in a social networking site, feel free to visit us.   GTL Enterprises Web Design and Hosting  provides hosting that supports both Wordpress and Joomla.

FREE PERSONAL HOSTING PLAN AND REGISTRATION with a 5 page web site or larger.  Regular price $30 per year. This offer is also good with domain transfers.  Visit our web site for more details http://gtlenterprises.com or email me at dave@gtlenterprises.com .