<div dir="ltr">My original intent was not to get a domain but to use <name>.<a href="http://wordpress.com">wordpress.com</a>. when I had to get a domain anyway, I bought one and had it hosted in my regular HostGator account, having installed WordPress.<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><br>Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm)</div><div style="font-size:small">________________________________________________</div><div style="font-size:small">Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk,</div><div style="font-size:small">"Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World"</div><div style="font-size:small"><font color="#1155cc" size="2"><u><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809</a></u></font><font color="#1155cc" size="2"><u><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809" target="_blank"> </a></u></font><br><div style="font-size:small">(move your mouse to "event videos")</div></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, <br></div><div style="font-size:small">poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Twitter: @shelhorowitz</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">* First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified</div><div style="font-size:small">* Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/" target="_blank">http://goingbeyondsustainability.com</a> </div><div style="font-size:small">mailto:<a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:shel@greenandprofitable.com" target="_blank">shel@greenandprofitable.com</a> * <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="tel:413-586-2388" target="_blank" value="+14135862388">413-586-2388</a></div><div style="font-size:small">Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest:</div><div style="font-size:small">Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson)<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">_________________________________________________</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 11:26 PM GLP via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Just to <a href="https://wordpress.com/pricing/" target="_blank">clarify</a> re: "if WP was going to be potentially not supporting free sites anymore” :<div>1. <a href="http://WordPress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a> will continue to offer ad-supported, free sites.</div><div>2. Using a custom domain (without forwarding/redirecting) has always been a paid upgrade on <a href="http://WordPress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a>.</div><div>3. Shel does have the correct understanding now that to use a custom domain name while avoiding paying fees to <a href="http://WordPress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a>, one must use the free <a href="http://WordPress.org" target="_blank">WordPress.org</a> software on their own hosting service.<br><div><div><br></div><div>Greg<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 24, 2019, at 2:28 PM, Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-5347686120073579904Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Thanks, folks. I ended up deciding that if WP was going to be<br>potentially not supporting free sites anymore, there was no advantage<br>to using them. So I bought a domain and will set up a WordPress blog<br>within my existing hosting partition at HostGator.<br><br>On 5/24/19, Richard Danek via Hidden-discuss<br><<a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Sorry if this appears a 2nd time. Sam McClellan seem to have received it<br>when I replied (apparently only to him).<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Richard Danek <<a href="mailto:rcdanek@gmail.com" target="_blank">rcdanek@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:33 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] <a href="http://WordPress.com" target="_blank">WordPress.com</a> question<br>To: Sam McClellan <<a href="mailto:sam@itabix.com" target="_blank">sam@itabix.com</a>><br><br><br>I just tested <a href="http://Wordpress.com" target="_blank">Wordpress.com</a> to see what's changed. I was able to select a<br>free site. It let me chose a name that was inserted before "<a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a>".<br>So, the sites final name was <a href="http://rcdinfo.wordpress.com" target="_blank">rcdinfo.wordpress.com</a>. I actually didn't<br>finish setting up the site. I just wanted to see where you were forced to<br>pay. *You still have the free option.*<br><br>You have to look for it, though. (I found it at the top of the page in the<br>description above the table that has the different prices/levels.)<br><br>Now, on to domain names. You can use any registrar to pick a domain name. I<br>use Google <<a href="https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/#" target="_blank">https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/#</a>> because they are only<br>$12/year. The price is higher for some of the newer domains (like<br>.photography). The thing is, once you have a domain name, you can change<br>its records to point to the Wordpress site.<br><br>Here's an example. My wife and I have a baking show that we produce every<br>once in a while. I registered "<a href="http://oomas.info" target="_blank">oomas.info</a>" on Google. So, that's my domain.<br>The site is hosted on Wordpress as <a href="http://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">oomascookiejar.wordpress.com</a>. I used<br>website forwarding to make it work so that anyone going to "<br><a href="https://oomas.info" target="_blank">https://oomas.info</a>" gets forwarded to the Wordpress site, "<br><a href="https://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com</a>".<br><br>The name in the URL banner always says <a href="http://oomascookiejar.wordpress.com" target="_blank">oomascookiejar.wordpress.com</a>.<br>Someone might object to that. I figure that once someone lands on your<br>page, they're going to use buttons and links to maneuver. Lots of sites<br>have long URL's at that point and no one seems to mind.<br><br>So, free is still there.<br><br>(I did find one registrar that supposedly allowed you to keep the "<br><a href="http://oomas.info" target="_blank">oomas.info</a>" name in the URL throughout. It might have been GoDaddy. They<br>wanted $20/year for the same domain name registration so I said NO to<br>that.)<br><br>On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 3:31 PM Sam McClellan via Hidden-discuss <<br><a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Maybe I'm misunderstanding, <a href="http://Wordpress.com" target="_blank">Wordpress.com</a> does have a free account but<br>you<br>can't have your own domain with it. It should not require you sign up for<br>a<br>paid plan unless you want something that's not included in the free plan<br>such as your own domain.<br><br><a href="https://wordpress.com/pricing/" target="_blank">https://wordpress.com/pricing/</a><br><br>Sam<br>--<br>Sam McClellan<br>Itabix, Inc<br>Web Development, Hosting and Domain Registration<br><a href="mailto:sam@itabix.com" target="_blank">sam@itabix.com</a><br><a href="http://itabix.com" target="_blank">http://itabix.com</a><br>Main - 413.587.4600<br>Toll-free - 877-7ITABIX (877.748.2249)<br>On 5/23/2019 11:17 AM, Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss wrote:<br><br>Unfortunately, that's not an option anymore. You have to buy a plan. The<br>cheapest is $3/month for a blogger account.<br><br><br><a href="https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#steps-for-mapping-a-domain" target="_blank">https://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#steps-for-mapping-a-domain</a><br><br>On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:12 AM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <<br><a href="mailto:hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net" target="_blank">hidden-discuss@lists.hidden-tech.net</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I'm trying to set up a freebie blog for a community group on<br>WordPress.com. It would be hosted on WordPress.com and not on a domain<br>of<br>ours. But after it has me set everything up, it's requiring me to buy a<br>domain sand sign up for a paid monthly plan. 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