After thinking for a while, I have decided to buy a domain for my Tumblr site so that my friend can remember my site easily.

I think 10 out of 10 among my friends never heard of the social blogging site, Tumblr, after launching my Tumblr site, AWAY FROM COMPUTER, introduced to them, they still can’t really remember the long URL of mine, so I bought a .com domain for it. Another reason is to make me look cool-er. Haha.

It’s Godaddy advertisement everywhere, most likely to see it in video podcast but I still decided to stick with my first domain registrar, Namecheap because of its fast and cheap service. My domains registrar are very spread out, some on Namecheap, some on Godaddy and there’s a few too on Mydomain. New domain on Namecheap is US$8.81 using the coupon for September 2009 (DREAMTIME).

It’s really fast, it took me less then 10 minutes to set everything up and running. Forgot to mention that another good about Namecheap is that it takes Paypal, but I believe a lot of domain registrar now takes Paypal as a form of payment.

Setting up the domain to work with Tumblr

Setting up is kinda easy afterall but I did google for how-to and here’s my how to. Just key in the Tumblr host address as above with record type set to A (Address). Click save.

Then you can test your domain with the Tumblr custom domain test page. As easy as one, two, three.

You can visit my Tumblr site @ www.awayfromcomputer.It’s a site where I share from my mobile device but not the PC.

I just renewed my brother’s domain name in Godaddy.com. Before checking out, I realized that there’s coupon code for it so I Googled around for the code and I found it. Here I am to share with you the code too. 

• CHH3 takes 30% off all new .com registrations and all .com renewals. This is the most popular Godaddy Coupon!
• CHH2 takes $5 off any order over $30.
• CHH1 takes 10% off any order. This code works well on all orders including hosting, webmail, registration and renewals!

I used CHH3 for my domain renewal. =) I am not sure when this code is going to expired but it works for me for now.

I have a domain registered via Yahoo Domain last year. It’s www.yikyeou.com. I bought it for fun when I received an email about buying a domain at only $1.99, it’s cheap, so I went for it for fun. Without utilizing it, I just redirect it to my blog.

Today, I received an email from Yahoo regarding the renewal of this domain that is going to expire soon. I was shocked to see that the renewal price is $34.95. If I didn’t bother about it, it will deduct automatically from my credit card.

I don’t understand how it works and why is it so expensive. I thought renewal will be the same price as the domain selling price at $9.95. Though it’s not. I signed in and canceled my domain, since I am not using it. If I really need the domain, I’ll just transfer to other cheaper domain registrar etc. Namecheap, Godaddy.

Yahoo Domain sucks.