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June 13, 2009

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How to Create CO.CC Free Domain

How to create a free domain in CO.CC.. A step by step tutorial to create a CO.CC free domain.

Once you have registered a good name of your choosing, you can make it as domain for your (i) blogger.com/blogspot, (2) a domain for your wordpress.com and (3) a domain for free webhosting like 000webhost.com and others. For CO.CC tutorial in Bahasa Indonesia see here.

CONTENTS

  1. How to Register / Create CO.CC domain.
  2. How to
    1. Manage CO.CC as Redirect / URL Forwarding
    2. Manage CO.CC as Blogger Custom Domain
    3. Set Up CO.CC as WordPress.com Domain Mapping
    4. Set Up CO.CC as Domain for free or paid Self-Hosted Blog
  3. CO.CC Affiliate Program
  4. Payment Proof


I. How to Register a CO.CC Domain
Follow these simple steps

1. Visit CO.CC Registration (click)
Enter the name you want to have as domain address in the box. Example, myname.co.cc (see picture)

2. Click “Check Availability”. If your chosen name is available, proceed further by clicking “Continue Registration”. If not, repeat the process using another name.

3. 4. Click “Create an Account Now” located at the bottom.

5. Fill out the form. Don’t forget to check the box at “I accept the Terms of Service”

6. Click “Create an account now.”
7. The registration process is done.

Now, you need to set up the domain to be redirected as you want it. The easiest is URL forwarding.

Here’s the functionalities and features available which you can set up with your CO.CC domain. The domain you created is inactive until you set up using one of the following options.

II. 1. CO.CC as Redirect / URL Forwarding

1. Click “Set-up”
2. Check the radio button #3 i.e. URL Forwarding.

3. Fill out the website / blog URL as the redirection target. Example, http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com

4. Click “Set Up”.
5. Come notice like ”Your change has been submitted.” Cick “OK’
6. Done.

II.2. CO.CC as Domain, Blogger.com as Hosting (Blogger Custom)
CO.CC can be made as Blogger Custom Domain in which you may integrate your Blogger.com blog as hosting and CO.CC  as domain.

For step by step tutorial, visit How to Create Blogger Custom Domain with CO.CC. For the same tutorial in Bahasa Indonesia visit Cara Setting Domain CO.CC dengan Hosting Blogger Blogspot.

II.3. CO.CC as Domain, WordPress.com as Hosting (Domain Mapping).
CO.CC domain can also be set up for WordPress.com domain mapping. Meaning, you may integrate your WordPress.com blog as a hosting with CO.CC domain as its domain.

For step by step tutorial in Bahasa Indonesia, visit Cara Buat WordPress.com Domain Mapping dengan CO.CC.

II.4. CO.CC as a Domain for a self-hosted blog

If you want a self-hosted blog, your CO.CC domain can be a domain of a free web hosting services or paid hosting. Just add the NS (name server) of the hosting of your blog in CO.CC admin. And you’re all done.

For hosting references, both free and paid one, see link below:

  1. Free Web Hosting services
  2. Top 30 Paid Web Hosting Services


III. CO.CC Affiliate Program

Once you have an account in CO.CC you are eligible to join the affiliate program as well. Just put the referral link or banner into your website or blog.

CO.CC affiliate program will earn you $ 0.10 for every new registered domain your refer. And you may request for withdrawal once your enaring reaches $ 1.00. Yes, one US dollar. No kidding.

To register or sign up for CO.CC Affiliate program follow these steps:

  1. Visit CO.CC Affiliate program
  2. Fill out the registration form.
  3. Once the process was done, you’ll have referral link and banner to be put into your blog and wherever you want.


IV. Payment Proof

co.cc affiliate program payment proof

1 Comment Post a comment
  1. Jun 19 2011

    Hello, co.cc works great. And if you use free hosting you can have a complete free website+domain. But what I wonder is, does having .co.cc domain extension have any impact on search ranking?

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