News!! Auto-Renewing Your Blog's Custom Domain

You tin brand for certain that your custom domain elevate is (or isn't) automatically renewed each year, if yous purchased it through Blogger or through Google Apps.

What is renewing a custom domain about?

If yous conduct maintain purchased a custom domain (eg www.fred-fish.com), as well as so you conduct maintain the correct to role that elevate for withal long yous purchased it for.   How long that is depends on the contract amongst the domain-registrar (ie the companionship that yous purchased it from).

If yous purchase a domain through Blogger (and therefore through ane of eNom or GoDaddy), the exclusively choice yous conduct maintain is to purchase it for ane year.

After the term of your contact is finished, yous withdraw to either purchase it ane time again or switch your spider web log to role some other domain elevate (perhaps your onetime blogspot name).   And if yous don't purchase the domain again, mortal else volition endure able to purchase it.

If your custom domain elevate is of import to you (and it volition endure if your spider web log is successful), as well as so yous volition desire to brand for certain that yous conduct maintain done the "paperwork" to re-purchase good earlier it's due to expire.   Your domain registrar should shipping yous a reminder electronic mail nearly a calendar month earlier the registration is due - exactly it's sometimes real tardily to immature adult woman details similar this.

Luckily, Google makes it easier yesteryear providing an choice to automatically renew your domain each year.

Using the auto-renew option

When yous commencement purchase a domain, ane of the questions is whether to automatically renew the registration each year.   I commonly reply "no" because I don't desire my credit carte du jour charged amongst something I didn't specifically authorise.

But in that place are some domains that conduct maintain snuff it real of import to me, as well as I desire to endure for certain that they are renewed.  So I'm prepared to plough auto-renew on for them.

Follow these steps to plough domain auto-renew on:

1  Go to Google Apps   (www.google.com/apps)


2  Sign inwards yesteryear entering your domain name, as well as choosing Domain Management.


3  Log inwards amongst the administrator account that yous set upward when yous commencement purchased the custom domain - think that this may directly endure called bloggeradmin, if yous purchased it to a greater extent than recently.

If yous run into an "Account Management" concealment later logging in, as well as so yous may withdraw to Go to Google Apps   (www.google.com/apps) ane time again - sometimes it may conduct maintain yous to the incorrect concealment if yous were logged into a regular Google work organization human relationship at the start.


4  Choose the Domains tab from the Admin Console.


5  Make for certain that the the Automatic Renewal check-box is laid to on, ie ticked (or off / unticked if yous don't desire to auto-renew).


vi Press Save Changes  (which exclusively appears later yous conduct maintain made a modify on the page)

What happens next

If the Auto-renew choice is ticked, as well as so nearly a calendar month earlier the renewal is due Google sends yous an electronic mail to remind that that it's going to occur.  

After that, at the appropriate time, Google charges the credit-card associated amongst your Google Apps work organization human relationship (ie the ane yous used to purchase the domain) for a one-year renewal.

The ane matter that yous withdraw to practise is make for certain that the credit carte du jour that yous conduct maintain linked to the Google work organization human relationship is soundless valid.

You tin honour to a greater extent than data nearly Domain payments on this Google help page.

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