IS a custom domain affordable??

really appreaciate the reply,but why is the .in domain costlier,and can you tell me the place where i can register my site at the cost you mentioned,because the last time i enquired it was around $13 for a .com domain

I see you have a blogspot blog. You can easily buy a domain through your blogspot dashboard (under publishing tab). It costs around 10$ per year.

Witty,

ewebguru.com is one hosting service provider that a few friends of mine along with me have been using. I guess, we are quite satisfied with the service. Many country based domains are costlier than .com, .net, etc. domains depending on the taxes, regulations, etc. decided by the government.

If you go for web hosting annual plans, they offer you free domain. If you already have one, they renew it for you *free* of cost. However, if you want to just buy a domain, it costs around $10 as moulee has pointed out which you can associate with your blogspot account.

Hey susam, moulee and mohan. Thanks for making these things clear in simple language. But how can I get a custom domain registered apart from using the blogspot dashboard? Are there any advantages in using the blogspot for getting custom domain?

not really... go with godaddy to register your domains, it is cost effective as well as you can point your domain from godaddy to blogspot through a DNS entry!

If i am not wrong, blogspot dashboard too takes you to godaddy. If you buy it through blogspot dashboard the domain settings are automatically configured to point to your blog. As mohan mentioned, you can also buy domains individually, but you have to manually point the DNS settings to point to your blogspot blog.

I haven't used blogger, so I don't know about that feature of redirecting to godaddy for domains registration.

I bought my domain first through blogger from godaddy.

And then I decided to shift from blogger to wordpress, and so, started self-hosting. I got hosting from godaddy and then pointed this domain to that hosting.

So, I guess however/wherever you buy your domain or blog, you can always set up a blog, shouldn't be impossible! rather very easily possible :) 

subups,

I don't see any significant advantage. It might be a little easier to setup but I am not sure. I have registered my domain name separately. How to setup your custom domain to point to blogspot server is very well documented in the blogger web interface and you can see the instructions when you try to switch to a custom domain.

If you are to host your own domain, why don't you go self hosted with Wordpress blogging platform.  Eweguru.com   webhost plan start with Rs 1595/. This is an ideal plan for beginner.

If one is registering only a domain, he can save money by not going for his own wordpress blogging platform hosted on a shared hosting server provided by the hosting service provider. Instead, he can simply host the blog on free blogging service like blogger.com and edit the DNS settings for his domain to make his domain point to blogger servers.

Appreciate the replies....so what is the advantage of hosting the site on these paid servers rather than the free blogspot server????

Witty, the ability to customize the blog is a big advantage of hosting the blog on your own space you have bought from a hosting service provider. If you are using Wordpress on a paid server, you can customize your Wordpress as you wish. You can add scripts, ads, modify the CSS, layout, etc. You can even hack Wordpress to add new features or make it do new things. If you want to do these things in the free service provided by wordpress.org, you will have to pay. Most bloggers consider wordpress to be a better blogging platform than anything else.

However, blogspot allows you to customize the CSS, edit the layout, add scripts, add ads, etc. for free. So, I have chosen blogspot even though it is not be considered the best blogging platform by most people. It suits me because I didn't want to host my blog on my own. I wanted it to be completely taken care of by some free service. But at the same time I wanted some flexibility of customizing the look and feel of the blog. Blogspot seemed like a good choice.

hey i thnk wordpress does not allow ads

Wordpress.com does not allow ads, you can have ads in your self hosted wordpress blogs.

@ Nishant, You cannot use the same domain name for all the three blogs, but you can create subdomains and can use them on the other blogs. For example if you buy a domain called nishant.com, you can create a subdomain called poetry4thesoul.nishant.com and so on for each blog.

Hmm ya that is what I wanted to know! Thanks :D...Will check it out. It seems complicated though!!

I thought I will revive this thread... i am in process of moving to my  own domain hosted on  blogger itself, purchased through godaddy... what all I need to do to ensure

1. My followers on google, network blog and email continue to get the same

2. The like on FB page are not lost

3. What impact will it have on indirank

4. Do I need to resubmit it to blog directories?

Thanks a lot.