What is an internet domain and what is it for?
We may have sometimes heard of an internet domain. But do you know what it is, what are they for and how many types of domains exist? . Well, an Internet domain is nothing more than a unique name that serves to easily identify one web page on the Internet. Without domains, people would be forced to log into websites using their IP number. For example, to visit Google we would have to enter https://172.217.10.110/ in the browser and not https://google.com, as we do now.
Logically, the usefulness of Internet domains is to avoid complicating our lives by memorizing IP addresses of each web page or service we want to access. In fact, even the creation of a subdomain can help to increase the number of web portals, being able to share several different names in a single IP address; a very common practice today.
How can I create a GoDaddy account?
The first step to buying a domain on GoDaddy is to create an account on their website, because if you are not a registered member, you will not be able to do so; then we go to https://godaddy.com from a browser and look at the top menu where it says Login, to view a 3-part submenu (Quick Links, New Customers and Registered Customers).
In New Customers, click on the Create my account button, where we will see a simple form to enter our data, such as email, username (must be 5-50 characters, at least 1 letter and must not contain spaces), password (at least 9 characters, 1 capital letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 number and no blank space) and a PIN code (4 digits).
There are in fact other options to be able to purchase an Internet domain. For example, you can buy and set up your domain on Blogger; Well, this allows you to put a badge on yours personal blog. On the other hand, you can also buy a domain in Namecheap which is a company to manage several websites.
How to buy a domain on GoDaddy without a credit card?
After completing the registration we log into our GoDaddy account in the same submenu as before. But in the Registered Customers part, to log in with the customer's username or PIN and our password; once inside we will see a title that says Domains and a field where we will place the domain name we want and press Enter, or the magnifying glass icon.
GoDaddy will search for the name you entered; If it is available, we will see its price in dollars ($) and next to it we press the green button that says Add to cart ; The page will show us the message Added and now we press the orange button for Continue to Cart above. So we will see several optional offers that we can skip into the option: No thanks.
At the bottom of the page and at the end of the promotions for the domain, we will see the button Continue with these options, which we press to see information on the domain we are purchasing, its duration (1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 years), unit price, subtotal and total; at this point, the detail we need to take into account is at the bottom of the page.
There it shows us our country, language and the transaction currency that corresponds to our location; It is the latter option where we must try to change the currency to USD $ (U.S. dollars). To be able to view other payment options other than credit cards; in the screen that follows when we press the Proceed to Payment button, located above.
By pressing that orange button, we will go to the Billing Information form, where we will write the names, country, address, telephone, etc. So, below, we will look at several options in the form Information on payment ; The first will be a Prepaid Credit / Debit Card, but we will also have other alternative payment options, such as PayPal.
There are options such as: AstroPay Card, UnionPay, AliPay, CCAvenue, GoDaddy Gift Card, Invoice (with affiliated companies such as OXXO, Éxito, among others), Wire Transfer and Check; It is important to clarify that options vary by region.
