domain name for blog

this blog will stay under the umbrella of www.blogger.com and www.mojoflex.com for the time being, despite my efforts to set it up on it's own domain.

Today I made the mistake of choosing a Domain Registration company (that also host the domain and other websites for me) that does not offer a control panel to change the nameserver so that a cname can be entered. That means I cannot automatically point my blog at this domain unless I use the ISP's blogging software, which I do not want to do. My blog needs to use google blogger so that it integrates and uses the same widgets and links as my collegues.

What will happen, is that I will register a new domain using godaddy.com which will allow me to do what I need to do with the cname. I can then open up a hosting account with godaddy.com and start hosting my sites with them too because they are such good value. Since my experiences over the last few days with a UK hosting and domain registration outfit, I am appreciating the features that godaddy offer:- month by month comittment it does not need to be 12 month minimum contract, domain and hosting in one package with discount if both at same time, integrated software forum for downloading/trying/sharing software, mysql built into even the basic hosting platform and much much more. If I did not know better, I would say that Markus has shares in godaddy, because he is their best salesman!