Blogging Ministry

Here is a site for ministries to pickup relevant domains for use in internet ministry or to drop off good domains that are no longer in use. Here’s some quotes from the site:

If you need a domain name for use in Christian ministry, ministrypool is the place to start! The pool which contains top quality, easy to remember, domain names for use in ministry and Church marketing projects

Think of it as a bit like a bank or library, when you’ve finished your project, the domain goes back ‘into the pool’ so others can use it. (If you really like the domain, permanent use might well be possible!)

You can also help by ‘donating a domain‘ to the pool.

This is a good service for Christian ministries to use. The whole idea is to keep relevant domains within the Christian community and out of the hands of the spammers and porno masters. Great idea.                   *Top

I just purchased 5 domains for Blogging Ministry from Go Daddy. The experience was not all that fun. I had purchased domains for my other blogs through Yahoo and it was quite fast and easy. However, Yahoo is actually a third party seller and not a direct accredited ICANN registrar. Also, most people in the know say that it is best to buy your domains from one source and host your sites/blogs with another.

So when I wanted to lock in all the community addresses related to bloggingministry.com, I searched on the web for an accredited ICANN registrar. I also wanted the best deal from the most reliable source possible. Go Daddy seemed to offer the best deal for purchasing 5 domains.

So then I searched the web for Go Daddy complaints (I googled: “go daddy complaints”)
Go Daddy had a few more complaints than I was comfortable with, however nearly all the problems had to do with hosting. Since I am not going to host a major site with Go daddy, just a ‘free’ test blog, I went ahead with the purchase.

Read the account of my experiences in registering with them. It is posted on my new ‘free’ Go Daddy Quick Blog.             *Top

Here is a good article on purchasing domains. By John Kinney posted in the Entireweb Newsletter, Sept. 26, 2006. The site is full of advertising so it is somewhat hard to follow the post, but it is a great summary of important information about domains.

Here is a second article on protecting domains. By Ross Dunn posted on SiteProNews, March 23, 2007. This site is also full of ads and the important part of the article is down towards the bottom under the title: “Protecting Your Domains”. It has some great tips.             *Top