By Lionel Gayle
After a week of Google pain with its Blogger confusion, I am glad to report that my blog (this site) seems to be working smoothly.
Yet, it puzzles me to know that I can still launch it from the old address link which I was convinced had been deleted or removed from my Google account. In fact, that old link should’ve been more aligned with my first TLD (Top Level Domain), http://www.kantankarous.com.
It’s the loss, or disappearance of the kantankarous.com address that has led to my week of frustration and confusion in setting up my first blog.
Nevertheless, thanks to those guys at Google for mitigating my stress-level. However, I believe that my present comfort zone arrived after I had made a strategic move when it seemed certain that I wouldn’t have launched my blog anytime soon.
At least I can access my blog with any of my regular web browsers. Up to a few days ago I couldn’t even launch it with Google Chrome – the upstart browser that some internet gurus are touting as the fastest vehicle on the information highway. For about a week, the whole process of setting up this freaking project had stressed the living daylight out of me.
And I blame the behemoth Google Inc. for my woes. I had expected this technological conglomerate to have a top-notch customer care service at Blogger.com, its free and popular blog-hosting operation.
Anyway, I registered my first blog at http://lionel-gayle.blogspot.com. (From Blogspot.com you get what they call a “naked” domain, that’s without the “www,” when you sign up for the free service). My name was not my first choice for the URL (Uniform Resource Locator), but I accepted it and later published my blog under the title “Here Me Now.”
To rookies like me, pleased observe that “a blog” is a website like this one, and my blog title is “Just Blogging.” The story below is my post, headed by the “post title,” which is tantamount to a headline in a newspaper or magazine.
Don’t be flabbergasted if your next-door “blogista” (my coinage) asked you: “When will you post your next post?”
I know your attention is piqued by the two “posts” in that short sentence. And you’re quite right; each post has a different meaning. But just stay cool my friends, it’s merely blog-talk coupled with the perplexed nuance of the English language.
Let’s get back to my Blogger problems. Shortly after I had set up the free blog at http://lionel-gayle.blogspot.com I purchased my TLD, http://www.kantankarous.com, through Google Apps.
Then I transferred my blog to the new site and deleted the stuff from the other. Everything was fine until kantankarous.com disappeared. The old site was still alive, but it was an empty page. That was no problem, I could easily replace the stuff. I just wanted back my TLD.
I laboured with the problems for a few days, with no solution in sight. Then aha, I registered another TLD, http://www.lionelgayle.com, with DomainShoe.com and signed up for another free site at Blogspot.com. I made the registered address my preferred domain and linked the free site. (Hey, that’s the same thing I did at the beginning!)
This time Blogger refused to accept my original e-mail address, so I opened a Gmail account with Google.
Although my blog is up and running, my first TLD http://www.kantankarous.com is still MIA.
I had posted a query at Webmaster Central, a Google help forum, and received a reply saying that the domain http://www.kantankarous.com blog “does not exist,” and that http://lionel-gayle.blogspot “exists but it's basically an empty site.”
Shortly after I had bought that domain, I received an e-mail from The Google Apps Team confirming my purchase and congratulating me “on completing your purchase of kantankarous.com.” The domain is registered with eNom and will expire on May 12, 2012.
I hope she comes home before that date, and before I become a cantankerous old man.
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