Importance of a Dedicated Domain Name

As the digital revolution has evolved online, blogs are taking more of a role to express freedom of thought and voice. For example, human rights organizations occasionally support independent bloggers who target messages to people living under governments that restrict free flow of information and news. There’s one big problem, however. The ordinary people in many of those countries with Internet access will never see a blog. Here’s why –

Many bloggers use free Blogspot blogs, and oppressive governments in countries such as China, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt and India … and others … have the ability to block all access within those countries to any Blogspot blog … and they do.

As a matter of fact, any blog with a URL such as … yourname.blogspot.com or yourname.typepad.com … cannot be accessed by people in those countries. When governments have that power of censorship, they negate any attempts to influence … whether the general public or the government itself.

There is a solution … register a specific domain name or URL through a service such as GoDaddy.com and import the free Blogspot or Typepad into a standalone Wordpress site. In that way, the site cannot be blocked and is available for people to see around the world, provided they have access to the Internet.