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Many domain name sellers refuse to play such games. One such seller is one of the Web's largest,
123reg.com. This site suggests alternate domain names and otherwise makes the search easier. A
domain name search on 123reg.com is shown in Figure 10.3.
Figure 10.3
The domain
name search
can be
exciting.
If you are ever going to get a custom domain name, then you should, in fact, do it as soon as possi-
ble. That's because you want to build up bookmarks, branding, and search engine rankings for
whatever the long-term name of your site is going to be, not building them up for one name and
then changing to another.
WordPress.org contrast
: Domain names are cheaper elsewhere, as mentioned. The main advantage
of buying a domain name for a WordPress.org blog, though, is that you don't face the prospect of
later transferring your blog, and all its hard-won traffic, to a new host—a transfer that could confuse
things in such a way that you lose some or most of your hard-won search engine ranking.
Global Differences
We've touched on the overall differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org in this chap-
ter and throughout this topic. Here is a summary of the overall differences:
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Hassle
—Finding, dealing with, and maintaining a relationship with your hosting provider is the
biggest potential hassle factor in using WordPress.org, and might be the single biggest issue
that drives many bloggers to WordPress.com instead.
