Those are great services to get your blogging skills off to a start and you may even keep your blog there. But if you want to establish your own piece of internet real estate rather than renting space from somewhere else you may want to get your very own domain.

Getting a domain name couldn’t be easier. All you have to do is Google the words “domain name” and up pops hundreds of places you can buy domains from. Many have hosting options you can choose from but that’s for another article. If you’re just looking to secure your domain name of choice, don’t worry about hosting for right now. You can always re-direct or upgrade your account through your registrar later.

The registrar is the company you register your domain through and the company that you manage your domain options through. I find that GoDaddy works really well for registering domains even though some people don’t like the Goliath and there are definitely cheaper places out there.

All you have to do to register through a company like GoDaddy is sign-up for a free account which just takes filling in some information like your address, your name, your blah blah blah. Then you search to see if the domain you want is taken and if it isn’t then you register it. Go through the steps, choose your registration length, private or public, and any other options they throw at you. If you’re at GoDaddy you’ll notice that they throw a ton of options at you, just choose quick register and be done with it.

Finally all you have to do is pay for it. You can use a credit card, and some places are even letting you use paypal to easily pay with a paypal account. And now with Google announcing no fee Google Checkout we imagine that a lot of places will try and make the switch to save in the coming year.

You’re done, you now own a unique domain name that you can call your own.

Now-a-days you can buy a domain name from any number of sources and you can do it all within minutes. You can even use paypal now at some sites to buy domains. Their are all different extensions, .org, .info, .us and now the world is getting full on involved with the world wide web and showing up with their own country codes like the .us such as; .eu for Europe, .cn for China, and .de for Germany.

If you’re worried that your domain name won’t work with your free host, don’t worry about it. If you use Blogger, or MSN Spaces to blog, or even myspace. Your blog on all of those sites has a main URL, all you need to do is redirect your URL from your domain host to that address. It usually takes only a few clicks. Seriously. Then you can give out your domain name rather than www.myspace.com/blogs/thisblog/2393jge93#3##tregfv983r8.

Some places where you can buy a domain name easily are:

GoDaddy.com
RegFly.com
1and1.com
Register.com
Yahoo Domains
Netfirms.com

These are just a few of the more reputable domain hosts out there. There are tons more and you just have to find one that works for you. If you want to change your host you have to wait 60 days prior to changing every time you change.