Keith Graham

Several years ago I moved all of my domains to Google. At $12 per year they were cheaper than the domain company that I was using. (This was so long ago that I don’t even remember who handled the domains before Google.) Recently CloudFlare started doing domain name registrations for about $8 per year. You don’t need to convince me that saving a total of about $40 a year by switching all of my domains is a good idea.
The main problem that I had was using Blogger.com accounts. Google makes it easy to use a custom domain with Blogger. I can’t get it to work with CloudFlare. The one I had setup for Erica is now a redirect, but it gets very little traffic so I don’t think anyone will ever notice.
The last one that I have yet to do belongs to the editor of a magazine that I sold to. I volunteered to help with the domain (big mistake) and for the last 6 years I have been paying for it. He has problems dealing with the publication process and may never publish the book that the domain is advertising. 6 years later and the book has not been published, I have not been paid and there seems to be no future in the domain. The story is good and I could get a few hundred dollars for it if I sold it somewhere else. When I bring this up the guy says he has a signed contract and threatens to sue me.
I don’t want to resort to a redirect, because I am afraid that I’ll get a snarky email. I’ll guess I’ll try it and see what I can do. I’ll steel myself to the nasty feedback. Worse comes to worse I’ll offer transfer the domain to him and let him do the development.