When I moved my blog over to Wordpress, I could have still maintained my domain name, www.lainyonline.com, but that was extremely difficult for me and I seriously needed help. I didn’t even know where to start. When I explained to a very dear friend of mine, DICKIE,  that I bought www.lainyonline.com from Google and it was automatically configured to work with my blogspot blog, he used his intellect, which of course is far bigger than mine in that domain, to realize that www.lainyonline.com could be managed at Google Apps. He logged into Google Apps and did some modifications on the domain name but then, he was limited by the setup there. 

Dickie successfully moved my blog from Blogspot to Wordpress. It was not an easy task. I have been  forewarned by Uncle Che that a blog of my size will be very difficult to export (from blogger) and import (into Wordpress). Besides loosing some traffic and restarting with a Google PageRank of zero, I risk loosing data – both posts and comments.

However, I had no choice. The blog was hacked and this move was very necessary. Our primary concern was not even the traffic, pagerank or loss of data, but how to transfer www.lainyonline.com to Dickie’s hosting account at BlueHost. 

It was at that juncture that we realized Google Apps won’t let us transfer the domain name. They won’t provide us with the transfer authorization code to initiate the transfer process. Why is that? Do they have a deal with GoDaddy (the registrant of all domain names bought through blogspot) to limit users’ administration of their own domain names bought with their hard earned cash? That’s annoying but there is nothing we could do about it. We went ahead and bought a new domain name www.lainysmusings.com. This new domain name, for a few days, has been the primary domain name for my blog.

My brilliant friend, Dickie, tried his best in tweaking the system and was hopeful to produce better results. UNCLE CHE, on the other hand, made some enquiries and found out that although we can’t transfer the domain name to BlueHost, there is a need to modify the settings through the Domain Manager (an extended service of GoDaddy used by Google for blogspot domains). He asked Dickie at BlueHost to provide him with his DNS settings. These settings, after implementation, gave Dickie at bluehost total control (except for the transfer process) over www.lainyonline.com. Transferring the content of my blog from www.lainysmusings.com to www.lainyonline.com is no piece of cake, but Dickie was able to make it.

I bet you he got Big Brains!

Now,  I can say everything is back to normal. My friends are doing their utmost best to recover any lost content. www.lainysmusings.com will remain active for some time, redirecting visitors to www.lainyonline.com.

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