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Unlucky domain registration…

Posted by Tvinky on Oct 28, 2008 in Site info

As I am a fan of Revision3 screencasts and as they advertise GoDaddy.com for domain registration so I thought that I could try this way. I went to http://www.godaddy.com/ and singed up. Entered my interested domain name and clicked to search for it. Luckily domain name was not used and I clicked to buy it and then it started – banners, suggestions and other stuff. I think I clicked 3 times, to get to checkout, because there were so many questions asking me: “Maybe you want to register tvinky.info and other domains too ?” etc… I clicked to pay with PayPal and got this: “ERROR : Enter PayPal account friendly identifier”. There was an empty field for friendly identifier information, but I didn’t understand what they want from me. I also tried to ask this question to Google and found out, that I’m not alone :)

One of my friends suggested to use http://www.europeregistry.com/ for domain registration, so next I tried this way. Signed up, entered my information and searched for domain. Fortunately there were no banners and other stuff. Site showed message: “1 In Progress Order(s)” and friend of mine sad that it could take even 24h. After 3 days of waiting, I got nothing and the message changed to “0 In Progress Order(s)”…

I was disappointed  a little bit about this epic fail and went back to GoDaddy, but this time instead of using PayPal, I chose to enter credit card information. I was shocked! After two minutes I had my domain registered and running. I went to “domain manager” link and changed ARecord IP address to hosting IP address. After one hour when TTL was over, the domain started to work perfectly.

From this time it will be easier to remember my blog domain name.

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Hi!

Posted by Tvinky on Oct 23, 2008 in Site info

So here we are… My first post…

I have been reading Latvian blogs for years, but not for a long time started to interest about making my own blog. All the time when I found something interesting or learned something that could be interesting for others – I thought that it would be great to show it to others.

Someone maybe want to know why I didn’t started bloging sooner, or why am I bloging in English…

  • Fact which was stopping me from bloging was my wish to make my own CMS system in which to blog. But because in my University Computer science programm we have 80% high level maths, 5% social knowledge and 15% was somehow involving with IT, the only time which I had free I spent learning maths… I didn’t want to fail with learning.
  • With goal to learn better English, I choose bloging in the English language. Also I’m a little interested to travel around the world – and as we know, English is great to know traveling.

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I also want to say thanks to Aivars who is owner of hosting on which my blog is working now. And of course, if someone has any suggestions or see some mistakes, I would be glad to be informed about it.

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