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

You tin laissez passer on the axe build for sure enough that your custom domain get upwards 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 comport keep purchased a custom domain (eg www.fred-fish.com), too every bit together with so you comport keep the right to business office that get upwards for even together with so long yous purchased it for.   How long that is depends on the contract with the domain-registrar (ie the corporation that yous purchased it from).

If yous buy a domain through Blogger (and hence through ane of eNom or GoDaddy), the solely pick yous comport keep is to buy it for ane year.

After the term of your contact is finished, yous take away to either buy it ane fourth dimension over again or switch your spider spider web log to business office another domain get upwards (perhaps your quondam blogspot name).   And if yous don't buy the domain again, someone else testament suffer able to buy it.

If your custom domain get upwards is significant to you (and it testament suffer if your spider spider web log is successful), too every bit together with so yous testament wishing to build for sure enough that yous comport keep done the "paperwork" to re-purchase expert before it's due to expire.   Your domain registrar should transportation yous a reminder electronic postal service nearly a month before the registration is due - just it's sometimes existent like shooting fish in a barrel to young adult adult woman details like this.

Luckily, Google makes it easier past times providing an pick to automatically renew your domain each year.


Using the auto-renew option

When yous get-go buy a domain, ane of the questions is whether to automatically renew the registration each year.   I usually reply "no" because I don't wishing my credit carte du jour charged with something I didn't specifically authorise.

But inwards that house are some domains that comport keep snuff it existent significant to me, too every bit I wishing to suffer for sure enough that they are renewed.  So I'm prepared to turn auto-renew on for them.


Follow these steps to turn domain auto-renew on:


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


2  Sign inwards past times entering your domain name, too every bit choosing Domain Management.


Log inwards with the administrator account that yous set upward when yous get-go purchased the custom domain - mean value that this may straight suffer called bloggeradmin, if yous purchased it to a greater extent than recently.

If yous encounter an "Account Management" enshroud after logging in, too every bit together with so yous may take away to Go to Google Apps   (www.google.com/apps) ane fourth dimension over again - sometimes it may comport keep yous to the wrong enshroud if yous were logged into a regular Google function organization human human relationship at the start.


4  Choose the Domains tab from the Admin Console.


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


vi Press Save Changes  (which solely appears after yous comport keep made a alter on the page)




What happens next


If the Auto-renew pick is ticked, too every bit together with so nearly a month before the renewal is due Google sends yous an electronic postal service to remind that that it's going to occur.  

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

The ane affair that yous take away to do is make for sure enough that the credit carte du jour that yous comport keep linked to the Google function organization human human relationship is silent valid.

You tin laissez passer on the axe laurels to a greater extent than information nearly Domain payments on this Google aid page.



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