Moving to a New Domain Name with GoDaddy

Now that I had started the migration to Jekyll and GitHub, the next sensible thing to do seemed like getting a custom domain for the blog. I hadn’t expected to get a .com domain, so when Sonal Raj suggested it, I initially brushed it off. However, he searched for it and voila—we found it.

So I decided to buy it, and GoDaddy worked like a charm. The beauty was the ease of pointing the domain to my GitHub site and the quick nameserver synchronization. Everything was completed in 10 minutes and I was blown away by the convenience.

The search for tools to blog with produced quite a few suggestions, but here I am using my trusted Vim to write this post. I’m not yet fully proficient with Markdown syntax, but it’s easy enough to pick up along the way. And so the journey begins…